There’s highwaymen! Daring escapes! Shocking revelations! It’s a madcap world and the narration tumbles through it joyfully. There’s so much going on: old religious iconoclasms, political upheaval, guildsmen of different factions, censorship of the written word, secret schools in alleyways, floating coffeehouses which are free of some of the censorship and rules that apply in the city… And I haven’t touched on a lot of the other stuff. Who do you trust? By the last hundred pages, I only trusted Saracen.
Part of the reason I was on Saracen’s side is that things get a bit twisty. Several tweets demanding to know where the goose was.) (People who watched me live-tweeting my binge of this book can attest to that. In any given scene, at any given stopping point, my main concern was where is Saracen? I have to admit that, primed by Untitled Goose Game, I was on Saracen’s side in all of this. Hardinge’s created a strange world, a bit aslant from our own, and through it rampages Mosca, a young girl who has run away from her home village Saracen, a goose that she took with her Eponymous Clem, the smooth-talking stranger she decided to join… and a host of other characters of various stripes. Fly By Night is a heck of a lot of fun, and though I’d say it’s perfect for a pre-teen or young teenage reader… there’s a lot to attract the adult reader too.
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