A review by mrs_bonaventure
A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeve

5.0

I really, really enjoyed this in the end! I read the series at the prompting of my son and, wanting to share the experience with him, I ploughed through books 2 and 3, thinking the first book (which was made into a movie) was the strongest. However this one, twice the length of the others, properly takes its time to explore the backstory and psychology of all the characters and their fates are gradually and believably interlinked.
Without spoilers, the ending is both epic (in the original sense) and poetic. I loved it.