Starminster

🔐⭐🌃🪽

by Megan Hopkins

★★★★★

Review

I had my eye on Starminster for a while after seeing its beautiful front cover, and I’m so glad I finally got my hands on it. Without a doubt, it’s one of the best books I’ve read this year and easily makes my top 5!

This book is an amazing mix of adventure, fantasy, mystery, suspense, and even a touch of horror. The plot moves quickly and the writing is brilliant—perfectly balanced between action, setting, and dialogue. I flew through it in just one day!

I loved the magical star-filled world set between earth and sky, and the idea of humans growing feathers linked to real birds was so unique. The extra information about each bird at the back was a great touch.

The characters are all memorable, each with their own backstory, and play a big part in the plot—whether they’re good, bad, or somewhere in between.

Starminster reminded me of some of my favourite books like Orphans of the Tide, Dragonborn, Where the River Runs Gold, and The Maze Runner. Megan Hopkins has taken the most exciting elements from stories like these and made something totally new and brilliant.

I’d highly recommend this to anyone who loves stars, fantasy, birds, or being swept away to magical worlds!

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At a glance

Author: Megan Hopkins

Cover artist: Devin Elle Kurtz

Release Date: 25th April 2024

Book type: Chapter, 288 pages

Reader level: Confident, 9+

Overview

Astrid has lived in the rhubarb shed her whole life. The outside world is dangerous, Mama explains; she will understand when she’s older, but she cannot set foot beyond the door. Astrid longs to see the world; to meet other children; to live in the farmhouse with Mama. But what she longs for most of all is to see the stars. Then one night, a stranger unlocks the shed: a stranger with wings. She has come to take Astrid to a secret city in the sky called London Overhead, far above the highest peak of the Shard. For Astrid, like her, is a Librae – and will soon grow wings of her own . . .Astrid is swept into a breathtaking and magical world of new friendships, sweeping adventures and unimaginable discoveries at the ancient, beautiful school for Librae students: Starminster. But quickly she learns that all is not well in the glimmering city. And when rumours abound of missing children in London Underfoot, she begins to realise that Mama may have been right about the dangers waiting for Astrid all along . . .

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