THE BURNING SKY By Sherry Thomas

While the idea of the book wasn't one that we hadn't seen before "The burning sky" still showed signs of being a fantastic read, but just fell into the "okay-ish" category. The third person narrative in which the story is told makes it seem like an old, slow paced novel which does not help with the whole "exiting read" idea that I had in my mind.  The points of view frustrated me sometimes because they would just switch back and forth without any real warning, and that made the book seem choppy and poorly edited.

I find that alot of authors these days seem to leave out important details of the setting and villains that could be vital in a readers understanding and enjoyment of the book, but somehow they just expect us to hate a villain just because the "hero" tells us to do so. One example of this was Atlantis and The Bane. Throughout the book Sherry tells us that these two are evil evil things, and must be brought down because of all the evil things they have done and all of what they represent, and the entire time I am reading this I just want to scream at the book "WHAT EVIL THINGS?!" I really needed an explanation to why the Bane was a monster (not that he wasn't) and why Atlantis was such a terrible place to be ( a little bit of background on this would have been amazing) and why the heroes of the story where willing to give up so much in order to bring them down. (clarifying that Atlantis is a place and not an actual human being)

The characters in this book where indeed wonderful, but sometimes the confusion with the point of view and the setting was too much and maybe took away from the characters :awesomeness. Iolanthe was everything a female lead is supposed to be. Her boldness and determination where at high levels, but she still didn't seem cocky, and at the same time I could also tell she really liked Titus, but at the same time she didn't sound like a love sick puppy which made her wonderful to read about.
I was quite confused with what ended up happening to the Inquisitor, and also wished that her powers and wickedness would have been described more because that would have made her a much stronger and terrifying character like I (think) she was supposed to be.

All in all, I think "The burning sky" is a imaginative novel with wonderful characters, but is only advised (in my opinion) to those with patience to read and finish a book, and to those who do not expect much of it.

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