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Ashes Of Twilight (2012)

by Kassy Tayler(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0312641788 (ISBN13: 9780312641788)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

St. Martin's Griffin

series

Ashes Trilogy

review 1: Strong voice and a strong female lead (Wren) propel this steampunk story appropriate for 6th grade and up. The setting is a world under a dome and a society set up to replicate mid 1800s England. Wren is a coal miner who longs to see the sky and shows initiative in reaching her goal. It's refreshing to see a confident female teen, but some contrivances in later chapters fell flat to me. I read this to see if it was appropriate for my daughter and I suspect she will enjoy it quite a bit.
review 2: The permise of "Ashes of Twilight" was really good, and the world the Kassy T. created made sense to some extent, however the writing style made reading this book somewhat tedious. It seemed that every single time something happened ("he came into the room"), an inne... morer monologue starts ("but x will never again come into the room, because they died. If only I had not done xyz, if only I could erase the last two days of my life, or be a little girl again, etc.). Every. Single. Time. This made the book frustrating to read, because, yes, I got that she would like to turn back time, but what I care more about is what will happen next.One annoyance I had with the book was the voice of the protagonist: This book is written in present tense and first person singular; the voice is presumably that of a 16 year old working class girl, who stopped going to school at age 13. The way she expresses herself, however, is that of a modern day author. She uses words that even a normal 16 year old would not use today, let alone an uneducated member of a subjugated class whose knowledge of the world is based on 19th century England. ( e.g.: "she will be treated like a pariah now"). The protagonist's voice also makes the world building a tad clumsy, because, as she describes her world, she actually keeps repeating "in my world, we do this and that". This would work if the author had used past tense, in which case I as a reader can imagine her telling me about her past. In present tense, it just didn't work. The protagonist is saying things like "The Bluecoats. That's what we call the security forces in my world."Anyway, I liked the premise of this book and may be reading the next installment, hoping that the writing style has improved over time.The only flawless dome/enclave dystopian book I have ever read is still "Inside Out", well, and the sequel "Outside In". There must be more out there, but nothing seems to even come close. less

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