The Floating Islands
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780375947056 (0375947051)
Publish date: February 8th 2011
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
I have a three-pronged reaction to seeing The Floating Islands on my shelf. (1) A sigh of contentment because just look at that cover! It's gorgeous and oh-so fitting for the story within. (2) A goofy smile because my copy is signed! Also: I think this is the only signed book I own, so a double goof...
Read This Review & More Like It On My Blog!Jessie's Reasons Why *You* Should Read The Floating Islands:~ magic!(Of the two novels by this author that I have read so far, she takes pains to create unique, if somewhat similar, systems of magic for her fantasy worlds.)~ magic dragons - some of wind and...
Opening: "Trei was fourteen the first time he saw the Floating Islands. He had made the whole long voyage south from Rounn in a haze of loss and misery, not really noticing the harbors in which the ship sometimes anchored or the sea between. But here, where both sea and sky lay pearl-gray in the daw...
I know a lot of people liked this, but so, so bored. And it had some interesting elements, but I never connected with the characters and then it also went on forever.... Ugh.
12 years ago
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