Fourteen-year-old Catherine Hunter doesn’t need to worry about the Collections. But she does. She should want to marry a government boy. But she doesn’t. Upon impulse, she stows away on one of the skyships and changes her name to Cat. All of a sudden, she is free of her father, of the government. Finally she can do what she wants to do – or so she thought. It seems that the crew of the Stormdancer are on to something, something big. Something that could expose the government and change things forever.
This book moved me. I can’t give too much away in a review, but after I finished it I sat there and cried because I was sad and confused and shocked but also happy because a book did this, words did this, but my brain was a muddle and I couldn’t get to sleep that night and then finally I managed to read another book that softened the blow but I still mourn.
Lucy Saxon wrote Take Back the Skies when she was sixteen. I read it when I was not yet a teenager, but I will remember it long after I do turn sixteen.
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