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Sky City by Jacqueline Crooks: The perfect second novel

As in Crooks’s debut, Fire Rush, her expression of music here is spellbinding. There is a hypnotic lyricism to her prose that vibrates on its own frequency

By Helen Cullen
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19 Aug 2026, 03:24 UTC
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Helen Cullen
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As in Crooks’s debut, Fire Rush, her expression of music here is spellbinding. There is a hypnotic lyricism to her prose that vibrates on its own frequency
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    Sky City by Jacqueline Crooks: The perfect second novel

    As in Crooks’s debut, Fire Rush, her expression of music here is spellbinding. There is a hypnotic lyricism to her prose that vibrates on its own frequency

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