Flying High in the Skies:Review of Airborn

Hey everyone, I am back today with my final blopost for this school year. I am going to be talking about the same book, Airborn from my past 2 blogs as I have just finished it. I am going ot do somethings that I liked and dislike in the book as well as how I would rate out of 5 stars.  So lets dive right into the book (no pun intended).

I throuoghly enjoyed the book the whole time I read it. Our assignment was to read about 20 pages over testing inorder to get ready for this final blog post. At that time I was a little under halfway through a 500 page book. By the end of testing I was done with the book. Yeah 250 pages give or take, thats a lot of reading. Granted, I had plenty of time, like everyone else, to read after slaveing over my PARCC test, and being completly bored. One day i forgot my book at home and boom, worst day of that entire week right there! I am straying away from my main point though, I thought this book was awesome.

I you wall want a summary of the book click here 

Now you may ask me,"Sudar why did you like this book, what was so special about it?" Well I am getting to that. Just a warning, I may get all fanboyish here. Ok so one of my favorite things that Kenneth Oppel did was he he has the characters going through everything from a romance that has just started to bloom  on a gianormous airship,

Supposed drawing of what the Airship would look lik in the sky

 to bloodthirsy pirates on an island trying to kill everyone, to adventures through a wild forest on an new, undiscovered island looking for an a supposed undiscoverd animal (called a cloud cat) your grandfather saw as he was dieing on a hot air balloon over the island. Yep this story has you covered. This story has so much plot twists and turns compiled with so much action that if i had read this before I would have been like, "there is no way an author can insert that much info and still draw the reader in." Well congradulations to Kenneth Oppel, he did just that for me. 

My favorite moment in the book though, is when Mr. Oppel managed to combine all the elements in the book into the climax where the major fight goes down. It says,"One of the cloud cats dipped lower than the rest, and its rear claws, maybe unintenionally, struck Szpirglas (the pirate and main villian) on the shoulder. His feet went out from under him, and he skittered down along the elevator flap headfirst. The safety line was plucked from his fist, and this time he did not regain it. He shouted out and tried to clutch at the fin's edge, but he was too late. Down he went spinning through the air. And I (Matt Cruse) thought: his boy. Theodore. His poor boy,"(Oppel, 481). It has so much action packed into it but has that one humanizing, down to earth moment even at the climax where you want all the events in your story to play out. That was what sold this book to me more than anything else. 

In my first blog about this book, I rated this a 4.5 out of 5 stars, but after reading through it, this should come as no suprise at all, I am giving it a 5 start rating. It combined all the elements in my mind near perfectly. 

As I wind down this blog and my freshman year, I would like to thank all my readers for making this blog interesting and always adding a little more of a push to get these blogs out. Thanks everyone and have a wonderful summer.