The Floating Island
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781417828388 (1417828382)
Publish date: April 1st 2008
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Edition language: English
Series: The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme (#1)
This book is just downright fun. I picked it up because Elizabeth Haydon writes an AMAZING adult fantasy series (Symphony of Ages, if you want to look into that), and I wanted to see how her middle grade stands up against that. The answer I found: The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme might actually be...
Boring and not worth the time. Bland characters. Not a great plot. I just didn't care about what happened. At all. Ven is a shipmaker's son and a Nain, so even though he is 50 years old he appears to be 13 or there abouts. He is on a ship when it is attacked by pirates. Ship sinks. Ven survives. He ...