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by Kenneth Oppel Airborn is a fast-paced action story, part Indiana Jones, and part Mysterious Island by Jules Verne with a dash of Treasure Island - just to keep things interesting. The novel tells the story of young Matt Cruse, a cabin boy aboard a great airship: the Aurora. In Airborn, airplanes don't exist and lighter than air vehicles rule the sky. It's romantic in the great adventurous use of the word. Matt is totally comfortable with the normal adventures of perilous mid-air rescues, but when the story mixes in pirates, mysterious carnivores, tropical storms, and one willful young woman - well, any young man would find himself in over his head. Both Matt and the willful Kate are delightful characters and if the action stretches the limits of our credulity now and again, we forgive them as easily as we forgave heroes like Indiana Jones. It's enough that the author takes us on a terrific ride and promises us another visit with these young people in the forthcoming sequel: Skybreaker. |
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