by Kenneth Oppel
3.75 starsThis book didn't catch my attention for awhile. Near the end, I really enjoyed it. I think a younger reader will love it throughout. It has an airship that's more like our cruise ships. There are pirates and flying creatures. The leads are a boy and girl trying to find an unknown anim...
2.5 stars.I enjoyed it. I did. But I kept comparing it to [b:Leviathan|6050678|Leviathan (Leviathan, #1)|Scott Westerfeld|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1275694232s/6050678.jpg|6226342]. There are enough similarities that I couldn't help it and I did try to be objective.Let's start with characters, sh...
Matt Cruse’s normal life as cabin boy of the airship Aurora is changed forever on one extraordinary voyage, filled with pirates, a mysterious island, and a beautiful, dangerous, and previously undiscovered creature.“This is my home,” I told him dully. And I’d never felt it more than now. I’d bundl...
This book has it all, action, adventure, tragedy, and a little bit of romance. The book grabs you from the very beginning and never let's go. It follows the story of boy in his early teens (15 or 16) that is a cabin boy on an airship. While the boy, Matt, is on watch duty he spots a hot air balloon ...
I totally loved this book - action-packed, fast-moving adventure, coolest airship ever, incredibly suspenseful and has mysterious flying creatures. This book had everything except teenage angst. It might be young adult, but the protagonist is a boy so no girly angsty stuff! I'm anxiously awaiting...
Airships! Sky pirates! Strange creatures! Quite a bit going on here. Add in class issues and an adventurous young lady with scientific aspirations and it more than fills 500 pages.There's basically two storylines going on here. There's swashbuckling action against a group of sky pirates, and a quest...
The best way to describe Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel, is "Steampunk Treasure Island." In a pseudo-Victorian world populated by gas-powered airships, cabin boy Matt Cruse makes a name for himself aboard the Aurora by rescuing a hot air balloonist stranded above the Pacificus, who unfortunately dies sho...
I read this one for LIBR 2395 and did a book talk on it. Such a fantastic story that really allows the reader to escape into the book from everyday life. I haven't read any Oppel since the Silverwing books and I'd forgotten what a good writer he is.
Interesting.
I loved this. Can't wait to read the second one. I think I have a bit of a crush on young Matt Cruse!
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