Line #15 Literature/TakeBackTheSkies


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3	[[quoteright:189:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tbts_small_7385.png]] [[caption-width-right:189: A heart will soar. An empire will fall.]]
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5	->''No one knew how or why the gods had formed the storm barriers where they did, but they were all over the world.''
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7	Take Back the Skies is a [[YoungAdultLiterature Young Adult]] [[SteamPunk SteamPunk]] Fantasy Romance book written by Lucy Saxon. Set in the [[CrapsackWorld Dystopian]] world of Tellus, it follows the adventure of 14-year-old [[LonelyRichKid Catherine]] [[ActionGirl Hunter]], aka [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Cat]], as she joins the [[BadassCrew crew]] of the [[CoolAirship Stormdancer]] and their fight to take down and reveal the secrets of her country's government.
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13	* ArrangedMarriage: Between James and Cat, the former and his mother being far more keen on upholding the promise than the latter. Cat tries to attempt a [[spoiler: [[ChildhoodMarriageVeto Childhood Marriage Veto]] but ultimately ends up marrying him in the final scene.]]
14	* BittersweetEnding: The government is taken down, the Collections have ended, and the day is saved, but [[spoiler: Fox is dead, most of the sprogs are unable to return to their parents, and Cat is forced to marry [[PrinceCharmless Prince James]] to ensure Angyla is restored to its former stability.]]
15	%%* BoldExplorer: The entire crew of the Stormdancer.
16	%%* BondingOverMissingParents: Fox and Cat.
17	* BoyishShortHair: The haircut that Cat dons after escaping from her father so that she can pass as a boy amongst the commoners. Also doubles as an [[ImportantHaircut Important Haircut]] as it's a sign of her freedom from her father and the constraints of her former life.
18	* ChildhoodFriendRomance: James and Cat - although moreso from James' point of view.
19	* ChildSoldiers: The fate of the [[InSeriesNickname sprogs]] Collected by the government.
20	* ConstructedWorld: The book is set in the fictional world of Tellus, notable for the thick, tumultuous storms that surround its islands.
21	%%* EntitledToHaveYou: Prince James towards Cat big time, especially once her relationship with Fox is revealed.
22	* EveryoneCanSeeIt: The rest of the crew of the Stormdancer towards the budding romance between Cat and Fox.
23	%%* FemaleGaze: Frequently, as a result of being narrated by a [[HormoneAddledTeenager Hormone-Addled Teenager]]
24	* InSeriesNickname: Various crew members of the Stormdancer nickname Cat "[[AffectionateNickname shortie]]" and children are generally referred to as "sprogs".
25	%%* LoveableRogue: Fox.
26	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Both Cat (Catherine Hunter) and Fox (William Foxe).
27	* SheCleansUpNicely: Cat when she wears the dress and necklace that she nicked from her old home, dressing more feminine for the first time in front of the crew of the Stormdancer.
28	%%* SweetPollyOliver:: Cat during the first few chapters after her escape to ensure her a place on the Stormdancer.
29	%%* SamusIsAGirl: Revealed when Fox and Cat escape from the police and, in the struggle, Cat ends up only with an undershirt on her top half.
30	%%* TeamMom: Alice for the crew of the Stormdancer.
31	%%* UnableToCry: Cat after Fox [[spoiler: kills her father.]]
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