B.B. Wynter's "The Lament of Sky"

Title: The Lament of Me

The Lament of Sky by B.B. Wynter

Reviewed by S. Davis

June 1, 2015

9:00 p.m.

The Lament of Sky by B.B. Wynter begins with a woman who has no recollection of who she is or where she has come from. In fact, Lilyth can only remember the past year of her life, which involves her floating around on a school campus with no real purpose to her life. In the course of an evening, the school and its inhabitants are destroyed, killed, and tortured and Lilyth is whisked away by a strange man who has all of this knowledge about her that she cannot recollect for herself.

The idea behind the novel itself is so unique and has the potential to be extremely interesting. However, it was not executed as well as it could have been. There is a lot of room for improvement in many areas of the novel, but the plot of the novel itself has the ability to be tremendously prospective.

One of the main concerns of the novel was the fact that there were too many details for the reader to take in at once. It would have been helpful if a prologue explaining the fantastical elements from Wynter’s imagination so that the reader is not as clueless as the protagonist, Lilyth, is at the beginning of the novel. The reader feels just as overwhelmed as Lilyth when William, the lead male character, is explaining who and what she is to her. The continuous bombardment of details is exceptionally staggering for the reader to keep up with.

The other main concern of the novel is the run-on-type sentences that are too wordy and detailed. Sometimes the reader gets lost trying to follow along with the numerous adjectives and adverbs the author weaves in the sentences that it is easy to forget what the reader is attempting to comprehend.

All in all, I would say that The Lament of Sky had a lot of elements to iron.

I would give this novel one-and-a-half out of five stars.       

Until next time,

S. Davis