Customer Reviews

Pilgrim of the Sky

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First - full disclosure. I'm the cover artist for this book, and I consider the author a friend, so YES I'm biased. I love this book. But again, considering I am completely biased, take that assessment as you will. I feel compelled to write a review to clear up a few things. This novel is full of rich and detailed worlds and steamy love scenes with compelling characters. BUT, I will say this book is misunderstood as "steampunk". One world within the book can be described as steampunk, and since the book is set in several worlds, assuming that the whole novel is steampunk in nature is doing it a disservice. Additionally as another reviewer noted this is NOT a young adult novel. I'm not sure how that mistake happened, but yeah, very mature scenes are present in this book. Very nicely written and fun mature scenes mind you, but mature non-the-less. A beautiful novel by a beguiling author. Can't wait for a sequel.

I loved this book! It was my first foray into anything steam punky and it did not disappoint. The author gives such rich descriptions of everything and I fell in love with the main character, Maddie. She is such a beautifully flawed character and is easy to relate to. The story is fast paced throughout the book. I enjoyed it so much I plan to read it again. Highly recommend it!

I'm not really sure why I thought this was a YA book, but when I first read the synopsis, that is exactly what I was expecting. However, this is not a YA book at all, but rather an adult book with some adult situations that I wouldn't necessarily want my teen reading about; not that it's extremely bad or extremely erotic, but there are some scenes within that are not my cup of tea, let alone something I would give to a younger reader. And, since I made the mistake of thinking this was YA, I'm guessing others might as well, so I just wanted to put that out there.

Now, my prudish self aside, there weren't that many sexual encounters, and the book was very well written as it is, but it wasn't really my style, not because of the sexual encounters, mind you, but because I had some difficulty connecting to the story itself. I am still new to the steampunk era, and I haven't quite wrapped my head around it all, but I truly believe an avid steampunk reader would love this book. The other worlds within Barron's novel were extremely interesting, but I had a little difficulty connecting everything together, though I think this is more reader error than author error. I also feel like this would be the type of novel that lovers of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland would enjoy as it follows that same type of surreal writing. Unfortunately, it is not for me. Two stars.

(Please Note: I use the rating scale that Goodreads empolys, which is different from Amazon. My overall rating is that is was okay.)