Rating: 4 star rating
I just finished The Bird Tribe, and Lucinda Roy does a great job bringing The Dreambird Chronicles to an end.
The story jumps ahead two years after Ji-ji shocked everyone by growing literal wings and flying. If you are expecting a war right away, that is not what happens. Instead, everything has come to a stop.
The people that were in bondage on the slave plantations, who are called "seeds" under a botanical system, are completely losing hope. They are starting to think the old legends of the Flying Africans were just a fairy tale they made up to survive.
To save her people, Ji-ji has to lead a dangerous pilgrimage across the broken landscape of the Disunited States. She is trying to find the truth about her heritage. She is wondering, were the "wingchildren" like her just genetically engineered in a lab by their oppressors, or are they actually the descendants of an ancient, mythical tribe?
Ji-ji is amazing because she isn't perfect superhero; she is just a fierce, exhausted young woman carrying the weight of being a symbol of freedom.
Ji-ji’s friend, Afarra, goes on this survival journey too, and she fights through her own trauma and the hardships of her past. The best character might be Man Cryday, a tough, grumpy 85-year-old elder woman who steps in to protect the kids. She lives by a code that the older generation has a duty to secure a future for young ones. Standing in their way is the scary and arrogant villain, Dream Master Amadeus "I'm-a-God" Nelson, who uses psychological manipulation and weapons to keep everyone living in fear. He is an example of how religious authority can be abused.
The author does not leave you on a cliffhanger. We get real closure, and the book answers the mystery of where the wingchildren's powers come from. It is an emotional and bittersweet, conclusion that makes reading the entire three book series worth it.
Thank you, NetGalley,Tor Publishing Group, and author Lucinda Roy, for providing me with a copy of this free ebook in exchange for an honest review.
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