![]() ![]() Zeke, too, initially seems to be cut from PI cliché cardboard, but very rapidly becomes established as a good man in a hard place, as issues in the case he is investigating, and his own family, overlap.Ĭorbett has created a future world that is horrifying to contemplate, but also exciting and challenging to experience. ![]() She’s a different person by the end of the book, and it was very satisfying to be part of that journey with her. Peri’s initial terror-fuelled flight seems a bit ditsy, but she’s a girl with a lot of growing up to do, and who faces down a series of physical and emotional challenges with great resilience. The story is told in alternate chapters from the points of view of the frightened teenager, Peri, who finds the body, grabs the baby and runs (well, flies, actually) and Zeke, the PI hired by Peri’s employer to track her down and retrieve the baby. It could have many labels: speculative fiction, urban fantasy, futuristic thriller, but I suggest you put the labels aside, and just go along for the ride. ![]() ![]() So why then does she throw it all away?ĭespite the dead body found on the first page, and one of the narrators being a hard-bitten PI, ‘When we have wings’ is not your classic crime novel. Peri, a poor girl from the regions, will sacrifice anything to get her wings and join this elite, but the price is higher than she could have imagined. The dream of being able to fly is now a physical reality, but only the rich and powerful can afford the surgery, drugs and gene manipulation to become fliers. ![]()
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