LitPick Review
Airborn takes place in the near future, where the skies are ruled by massive airships. Matt Cruse was a cabin boy, aboard the passenger airship, Aurora. Cruse badly wanted to become a junior sailmaker, but his opportunity was stolen by the son of Otto Lunardi, a rich Airship maker. His anger subsides after he meets Kate De Vires, a young photographer, who's grandfather Cruse saved from a crashing airship a year earlier. Kate shows Matt her grandfathers logbook and Matt reads that he had found a new species of animal, a mix between a jaguar and a seagull. Shortly after this, the airship is raided by a pirate group led by the infamous Szpirglas, who crashed the Aurora on an uncharted island. Matt and Kate explore the island, only to discover that this is the same island that Kate's grandfather had seen the new animal flying above. What else will they discover?
Opinion:
I think this was a great book, mainly because of the vivid images, the loveable and unloveable characters, the fluid story line and the fact that it was comical and exciting at the same time. "Airborn" is a book with something to enjoy, no matter who is reading it. "Airborn" never leaves the reader hanging anywhere. This helped because many other books leave much to be desired at the end, and this is definitely not the case with "Airborn."
