I received a free copy of this book on NetGalley in exchange for a review - and I am VERY LATE in providing it!

I'm giving this three stars for an interesting concept, decent writing and unlike a lot of my recent NetGalley reads, I was able to get all the way through it. (Seriously, do I just have bad taste in blurbs?) Wing Walker is not a BAD book, but there are a number of things that could use some attention. The author has chosen to often have her MC speak in questions. It makes her come off younger than her stated age, and it gives the book a dated YA feel. As other reviewers have noted, she also witnesses a dragon being mutilated and then befriends the crew responsible... Jay was a somewhat flat character, especially given his role in the book. I feel like a different editor would have caught and requested changes in the characterizations and expanded on some of the plot points. I'd have been okay with another 50 pages in length to get more on the story, setting and people.

Well, first of all, the synopsis (the true synopsis, not my summarisation) is fantastic and it’s a major major reason that I took the book; it is also massively long. Even for a fantasy novel. So, picture this, right? The synopsis is all fantastically good, makes me super excited to read the book and I can’t wait because it’s going to be epic… aaand it… just fell apart.

And by ‘just fell apart’, I mean the synopsis built up this expectation and I was already thinking of like it’s gonna be like Game of Thrones with the dragons or some type of siren-like power with the singing, but it didn’t have any of that.

And the whole thing with the actual wing walkers (who only showed up a bit) – this confused me a lot because I thought they would be there a lot and that their role would be important; and while it was, I didn’t think it was properly used. And that was a shame because they could’ve been fantastic. But alas.

Do I recommend this: Listen, if the book lived up to its synopsis, I would be all over it. But if you like dragons and magic involving dragons, maybe pick this up!

Loved the dragons and scifi aspect of this book. Some parts were slow, but stick with it and you will be rewarded.

The book was well written and seemed like an epic story, but I had a really hard time getting sucked in. I put it down and tried again a few times with the same result, so maybe this just wasn't for me, but I don't think it's the book at fault. The characters seemed good and developed, the story background was detailed enough, and it began with enough action.

I'm sad that I wasn't able to read this book, because it was too much at the same time. I guess that his book was amazing and I would love to try and read it.
Now i will have to buy one!

I am really sorry, i tried to read this for 5 months and i just couldnt bare to read more than one page at a time and in the end i gave up.

I enjoyed this fantasy as I love a good dragon story, it did get a bit boggy in the middle and I wonder if YA readers would bother to push on through? I thought the characters and scenarios were well thought out and the descriptions were very evocative.

I would like to thank Wide Avenue Publishing and Netgalley for this partnership.

I was immediately attracted by the blanket and you see Jay and Cassie in front of a dragon and a big fair wheel behind.

Cassie is looking for a wise dragon because they can change the course of things. At the age of eighteen, she ran away and joined the scavengers, her heart broken by a tragic accident, she wanted a wise dragon to take an oath. She will meet Jay and they will venture into unknown lands.

A first volume that I devoured in one fell swoop so much I hooked on the story so moving, captivating and full of suspense and twists and turns as well as the characters, especially Cassie. Looking forward to reading on.

This was a very confusing book for me and I had a hard time following the events that happened through out.

The prose started out good, with detailed descriptions of the surrounding, the world and the emotions Cassie was going through and engaged me at first. But it soon turned into a mumble jumble of a journey. She meets dragon after dragon, but never what she wants and needs. She meets Jay and then the Wing Walkers, but the story just keeps running on, without ever taking some time for the reader to stop and be able to breathe and understand it.

The idea of the world and dragon singers is great, but the plot itself just left me confused.

Two stars out of five.

Wing Walker is strongly written with an active sense of description. I found the accessible writing and fantasy elements to be well done and effective. Recommended for readers who enjoy this genre — it’s a fine example.

This was a disastrously written story and I'll warn you now that I may give spoilers as I ramble because the author seemed to believe that free form rambling was okay. I did not understand a single thing about this story or the world it was set in. When I read the synopsis, it seemed straightforward, but it was extremely misleading - Jay was barely in the novel, the best friend came across more like a lover and it was a complete jumble of current culture placed in what I think was supposed to be a dystopian future, yet it's supposed to be on a moon? Dragons? Magic? Where did all this come from? It was never explained. Cassie is supposed to be 18, but seems much younger. She's constantly talking in question form, with no statements or declarations like a normal person, making her seem very insecure, uncertain and unlikable. Surely in the future people aren't using the word "like" to start sentences all the time. The title suggests it's about wing walkers, but Cassie is barely with the wing walkers! There was absolutely no development of the Wing Walker culture - just bits of info plopped into the middle of the book. Tianna, the so-called best friend, legit seems like Cassie's lover for the entire first half of the book. Even at the end, Cassie's little dream/magic meeting with Tianna with all the "babe" stuff did not seem like trying to find a best friend. If you're going to be an LGBT book, be one, but I could never tell if that's what the author was aiming for! And JAY! Good heavens, what the heck was the point of him or his smuggling business? The entire book was the Cassie in her head show and it was a dreadfully boring show. I wanted to give up reading so many times and I don't even want to claim that I read it.

This book was given to me for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Let me start by saying that this book has a fantastic premise and I wanted to like it so much more than I did. Dystopia, dragons, abandoned theme parks? These are a few of my favorite things! However, this book fell short for me.

I never got a real sense for what was going on with the world. We are dropped unceremoniously into a land filled with abandoned theme parks, a Capitol (which we sadly never see), and all sorts of magical creatures (unicorns, hippogriffs, and dragons! Oh my!). I will say right now that it is altogether possible that the world building came later in the book, but I got to about 30% in the book and had to start skimming pages just to get through because I was having some issues with the characters (more on that later). The one bit of world building I did enjoy was the tree house commune of the Wing Walkers. I loved that part in the book and I thought it was a good deviation from typical overdone science-y landscapes that often come with dystopian stories. There is a really good piece with getting dragon scent onto clothes that I thought was like a nugget of brilliance.

My biggest problem though, was the main characters Cassiopeia (Cassie) and Jay. The characters felt very two dimensional to me and I had zero sympathy for them. There is a scene in the beginning of the book where Jay and his crew are cutting the wings off a dragon and Cassie’s internal thought process is “Guys, stop it, already.” No abject horror, no disgust, no outrage that leads her to jump from her hiding spot and demand they stop. And that was when I knew I’d never be able to get behind this character. There is no satisfactory answer to why people are cutting off dragon wings and to me that is really horrific (there was some talk about why Jay’s crew does this to dragons, but it was a scene I skimmed because unless they were talking about breaking out all the dragons and setting those poor beasts free I didn’t really care what they had to say). I felt like there wasn't anything to make these characters people I wanted to root for.

At the end of the day, this book was not for me. I felt there was a lot of potential but it wasn't executed in a way that I enjoyed. There were little bits and pieces that I loved, but I feel if the characters had been more likable and the world better structured, this would have been a completely different review from me.

This book was provided to me via NetGalley.com for free. All thoughts and opinions are completely my own.

Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Destroyed worlds and dragons? yes please!
This books is very fast-paced in some parts but the demeanor of the animals and the interactions with the characters is so well done. It makes me jealous i'm not a summon-singer! There is intrigue and danger on almost every page, i wanted to be on this adventure with Cassie.
Some of the side characters could have used a little more detail but this book had me hooked from the beginning and i couldn't stop reading, and reading, and reading.
If there was a second book i would definitely read it only to find out what happens AFTER. there were a few moments in this book that felt extremely rushed over, they were touched on for a page or two and then were done. We have to culmination to a big battle yet the whole thing is only a few pages with very little detail? i wanted more! more Heroism and more connecting with the dragons to do real damage. I would've liked a better resolution to the end of the book instead of this chopped ending where I'm left with too many questions.

Her best friend has died and she has gone to another world to find a dragon she can heal and get an oath she can use to bring her friend back to life. This world has been bombed and it's filled with old theme parks, dragons and poachers...

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Besides getting dirty and seeing black wispy things to scare her, she's not having much luck. She finally sings hoping to draw one out. She finds one, but the poachers come and grab it. They cut off the wings so it will be subdued on the ride back to the compound. She's upset to see that but she can do nothing about it. Then another dragon shows up and starts attacking. One of the poachers tells her to come inside the ship for safety. She does. She also finds she likes him.

She meets Wingwalkers that use old songs and lore and make friends with some of the dragons. She hangs with them for a while but moves on.

She and Jay (the poacher) get closer the more they see of each other. He helps her search for dragons. As she searches she meets other beings who tell her to let her friend live in her memories, she's never really gone.

This was very good read. It is a well-drawn out space opera that was fun to read. I'd read the next book in this series. I see her and Jay becoming a couple...

This book was very slow to start, maybe 65% of the way through before it finally picked up any sort of pace. It was a hard slog to finish the book. The heroine seemed to possess a deeper power she was unaware of and her lack of self confidence in herself made her irritating. Jay was an interesting character whose actions seemed to be highly at odds with some of the things he said, and wasn't really involved all too much. Overall I didn't really get into it.

Very well written young adult fantasy book. Kept the supposed grown up interested and engaged throughout and very much wishing for more!

The most crucial aspect of Finnberg’s novel that stuck with me revolves around the characters themselves. All too often characters blend together and don’t come across as genuine. There is nothing unique and noticeable to the readers in these characters. They tend to just fall flat. However, in wing walkers, this is not the case.

I loved how the author craftily provides each character their own tones and personalities. This was most evident in the speech and movements of each individual. There are a lot of memorable features. As a reader, it made my heart happy. I could easily point out who was speaking without being told something. A technique that takes talent. The most favorable part of the book is how interesting the world is and all the mystical creatures involved. I loved the dragons. Finnberg brought a new twist with this one. Each dragon has their own diverse traits leaving me feeling like everything in the book had a rich flavor. This was enough to hold my interest!

The very first scenes left me crying buckets at the tragedy and emotion reading the situation through Cassie’s eyes. The sympathy she possesses for the creature she sees being harmed is heartbreaking. It totally toyed with my emotions.

The only thing I thought could have been done better is the middle. I did find myself getting a tiny bit bored. The middle felt slightly slower. The pace of the novel isn’t a very fast one to begin with. I do love how touching and caring the main character is. She is an absolute sweetheart. The ending of the novel left me feeling rather surprised but do not want to discuss too much of that because I am attempting to not reveal spoilers. It is definitely worth picking up and reading!