Skylark by Megan Spooner is a story of one girl's courageous journey to save herself and those she loves. Her determination not to believe the sweetness covering the lies and deceit or that Monsters can't be cured is part of what makes this character a great heroine.An incredibly visual story, stunning in it's distrubing yet hopeful version of the future. A world both breathtakingly beautiful and terrifyingly horrific at the same time. A world where trusting yourself may be the most important th...

Skylark starts out with a familiar dystopian setup: heroine Lark is disillusioned of her society's means of serving the common good and sets out on a journey to escape and take down her government. As the heroine leaves her home, the story itself leaves a lot of the dystopian elements behind and becomes more a quiet, survival story with elements of fantasy world-building sprinkled throughout. A bulk of Skylark takes place in the wild, a stark contrast from the magic and machine-powered environme...

I don’t give out many one star ratings. (EDIT 7/21: Never mind. Ever since I started reading more books in the YA genre I've been giving plenty of one star ratings. When I wrote this review, though, a one star rating was rare from me. Now? Not so much.) So Congratulations, Skylark! I reward you with a single, lonely, star. You should be honored of your crappiness. Just so you know, I did not finish this book, but I made it up to 53%, which I think is an accomplishment, given how much this book w...

I reread some of my favourite parts last night.Oh man, I forgot how much I LOVED this series. It got lost in the dystopia-craze of the 2010s, and I never really heard anyone talk about it, but my god, it's SO GOOD.Magical. Dark. A compelling romance. Plots twists. Amazing world-building. A complicated main character. I wish this series got more hype so I could talk about it with people!!

Ok, let's try this again.4.5 StarsRounding up since the only reason I didn't like it was cause I'm still undecided whether I like the MC or not. I'll explain more later. The story is great, a dystopian world which relies on magic to sustain it. The imagery was excellent, I felt like I was there with her in the forest, the city, the Iron Wood, on those pockets of magic. The characters were all believable I loved Nix, greatest pixie queen ever! Never liked Kris from the start of the book, he cares...

Sky­lark is the most tech­ni­cally pro­fi­cient and well-written novel that I’ve ever strug­gled to fin­ish. No doubt Spooner is an author to watch.The world build­ing of Sky­lark is both imag­i­na­tive and rich. It has a fas­ci­nat­ing back­story set in a dan­ger­ous and vivid world. By the end of the novel I was rather attached to the char­ac­ters and invested in Lark’s and Oren’s strug­gles. I cheered them on and felt a lit­tle heart pal­pi­ta­tion at the impos­si­bil­ity of their circumstanc...

I first heard about this book at BEA (Book Expo America). One of my blogger friends snagged the ARC. Well, when she told me she stayed up reading until 5AM, I knew this was a book I had to read. The publisher approved my Netgalley request, and I read it the next day.Skylark grabbed me from page one and never let go. Poor Lark lives her whole life feeling rejected because she was never chosen for harvest. When the day finally comes, she discovers why. And, hold crap is all I can really say about

Overall pretty good and entertaining , although I felt that there was just to much of lark just describing her. Whole surrounding s , which that was quite boring . I really wanted to love it but I just couldn't I didn't feel that much connection to the characters . Oren was great how he wanted to protect lark from the dark ones , and then there was the twist at the end that just sucked me back into the whole story , but I don't believe I will be reading the next book just didn't really do it for...

From its very first image of an eerie mechanical sunrise, SKYLARK draws the reader into a gritty fantasy world where nothing is as it seems. Lark is a protagonist who is easy to relate to; all she has wanted is to become a normal adult in her weird, captivating clockwork-magic city. As the story and the world further unfold around her, Lark reacts and grows believably, dragging the reader into a tale of intrigue, danger, and discovery. It is a pleasure to follow her as she slowly comes to realiz...

SpoilersThe city Lark Ainsley lives in is surrounded by a wall powered by the 'Resource' (magic) of its citizens. The 'Resource' is Harvested at a very young age at the city's Institute. Lark has never been Harvested because she has no 'Resource'/magic. Everyone else her age has already been stripped of their magic and have done their part in powering the city. When Lark is chosen to be Harvested, she's shocked to find that she is a Renewable and able to regenerate her innate powers everytime sh...

Combining magic, science-fiction, and a scary futuristic setting, Skylark is original in its concept that brings forth a dark, twisted world where magic, and monsters, run rampant.I was wary at first because I wasn't sure how well the mix of dystopian and magic would mingle, but I found myself quite captivated by it all, though this did not happen right away. At the very start there's a lot of confusion when it comes to the world building: What exactly is this harvesting and why is it done? Wher...

I LOVED Skylark!!! and here's why...From the beginning it felt like the sort of book that I would love to curl up on a couch with under a blanket, you know that feeling when a book feels like an old friend? Partly due to the lovely descriptive style of writing and partly due to the beginning reminding me of Obernewtyn (which I read many years ago and loved). Though there were times when Skylark soon made me feel a bit squeamish inside!When I thought I had Skylark pegged - "I know what's going to...

Read This Review & More Like It At Ageless Pages ReviewsWon from http://thebooksmugglers.com/I’ll admit, I’d heard nothing, seen nothing, and had no knowledge of Skylark until someone retweeted Meagan Spooner’s “Sky’s the Limit” contest, in which every entrant would win a prize. I, being a sucker for free stuff, entered and the author herself tweeted me a list of other contests she was running to promote the novel. I entered those too and won a prize pack from thebooksmugglers.com, a signed hard...

When I first read the summary for "Skylark" I thought, "Wow, what an original concept." However, no matter how unique the storyline, the writing just did not deliver.Lark Ainsley has been passed over for harvesting her resource year after year. You see, in this dystopian society, the magical powers of children are tapped to power the city. Finally, when her time comes, Lark finds out that what will happen to her is not what she was taught. It is all a big lie and her life is very much on the lin...

Skylark was unexpected and enthralling. But before I talk about what I like about it, I think I should mention what it's not. I've read a lot of fantasy in the past - about an Amazon rainforest worth - and you can sometimes find the plotlines and the worlds a little formulaic. In many of these tomes, a character is introduced, and immediately you can categorise them as hearthrob, or the secretly-evil guy, or the guy-who-will-redeem-himself-only-to-die-in-the-last-scene. This book constantly surp...

This beautiful, unique story is pure magic. The prose draws you in and weaves an incredible world, but the book doesn't dwell too long in description. Skylark draws you along and never lets you rest. Often dark, sometimes shocking, stunning the whole way through, this book will stay with you.Lark is a fantastic protagonist -- she doesn't charge out of the gate ready to kick ass and take names. Instead, she's determined, but has almost none of the skills she needs to survive in the world she's en...

I wanted to wait a little to write this review so I could get my bearings right on this one. This is my first 3 star review in awhile and I’m kinda in the middle with it. This series is about a girl named Lark, who seems to live in a future dystopian type of world where they have powers, or magic or whatever, and at a certain time in their life, everyone is harvested to have the magic taken away and put in their jobs they’ll work. I’m super confused from the beginning because nothing really told...

Trigger warnings: violence, loss of a sibling, torture. 3.5 stars. I was reeeeeeally interested to read this one, because I've only read the books that Meagan Spooner has cowritten with Amie Kaufman and I was intrigued to see how her solo writing compared. As a concept? This was pretty stinking cool. It's basically a blend of dystopian and fantasy. A world where people have magic, but where the government harvests that magic from you in order to maintain society's reliance on mod cons. A world w...

SKYLARK (YA) by Meagan SpoonerSKYLARK is the anticipated August 2012 new release from author Meagan Spooner. SKYLARK is a Young Adult novel written in both the utopian and dystopian genre of literature. Exploring both the political and social structures of a post apocalyptic nightmare, SKYLARK- divided into three sections-follows 16 year old Lark Ainsley and her endeavor to discover who and what she (is). The world as she has been taught, is not the world she will come to know. There is a lot of...