Kenneth Oppel
Paperback | Pages: 501 pages Rating: 4.17 | 23016 Users | 1922 Reviews
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| Title | : | Airborn (Matt Cruse #1) |
| Author | : | Kenneth Oppel |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 501 pages |
| Published | : | May 24th 2005 by HarperCollins (first published May 11th 2004) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Steampunk. Fantasy. Young Adult. Adventure |
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Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean, ferrying wealthy passengers from city to city. It is the life Matt's always wanted; convinced he's lighter than air, he imagines himself as buoyant as the hydrium gas that powers his ship. One night he meets a dying balloonist who speaks of beautiful creatures drifting through the skies. It is only after Matt meets the balloonist's granddaughter that he realizes that the man's ravings may, in fact, have been true, and that the creatures are completely real and utterly mysterious. In a swashbuckling adventure reminiscent of Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson, Kenneth Oppel, author of the best-selling Silverwing trilogy, creates an imagined world in which the air is populated by transcontinental voyagers, pirates, and beings never before dreamed of by the humans who sail the skies.Mention Books Supposing Airborn (Matt Cruse #1)
| Original Title: | Airborn |
| ISBN: | 0060531827 (ISBN13: 9780060531829) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Matt Cruse #1 |
| Characters: | Kate de Vries, Matt Cruse |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Book (2005), Sunburst Award Nominee for Canadian Novel (2005), Michael L. Printz Award Nominee (2005), Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2006), Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (2005) Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award for YA-Middle Reader (2005), OLA Forest of Reading Red Maple Award for Fiction (2005), Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2007) |
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Ratings: 4.17 From 23016 Users | 1922 ReviewsCrit Regarding Books Airborn (Matt Cruse #1)
Airborn follows the adventures of Matt Cruse, a cabin boy aboard the airship Aurora, a luxury liner in an alternate world where Jules Verne's dreams (but not his nightmares) basically came true. Unlike a lot of alternate history stories, Airborn doesn't bother with giving much world development. It's never even clear what year the story takes place in, and the strange mix of technology (there are airships and heavier-than-air ornithopters but weapons seem to be largely antiquated blunderbussesThis book is reminiscent of the best pirate adventures of the past, but ups the ante by setting half of the tale in the air, rather than the seas, and by taking time with characterizations, rather than creating stock Baddies.There is admittedly an odd subplot with mysterious creatures which is...interesting enough, but really I found myself caught up the most with the "high seas" (or perhaps in this case, high over the seas) drama. Even the technical parts about the various parts of the airship,
I liked Matt as the protagonist. He was an intelligent and passionate young man who loved what he did. There is a lot of adventure in this book, especially at the end where it got especially exciting. Loved the creature that Kate's grandfather discovered and the mysterious island the Aurora lands on. Very cool world building. However, I found Kate extremely annoying. In the beginning I thought she was mildly irritating but by the middle she was pushing obnoxious. I appreciate persistence, but
I'm rating this based on the memory that I loved it when I read it years ago, and I hand sold it a lot when I was a bookseller. An imaginative adventure.
Re-read: January 2020The Matt Cruse trilogy is one of my all-time favorite series. Ive long lost count of the number of times Ive re-read it. Something about it makes me so happy and I am always in the mood to pick it up. It has the perfect mix of action, adventure, and romance, and each time I read it I get something new out of it. This time around I noticed that a major theme in this book is the future and how our circumstances affect it. Every character has something that they want to due
Very interesting book filled with action and adventure, I hope to see more of Kenneth Oppel's imagination in other books.
2.5 stars.I enjoyed it. I did. But I kept comparing it to Leviathan. There are enough similarities that I couldn't help it and I did try to be objective.Let's start with characters, shall we?Matt is nice but a bit bland. I'm sorry, but to speak plainly; he's in love with the airship, with the idea of flying, aaaand...that's pretty much it. Kate: Oh, Kate. The sassier, I-just-don't-care character. I liked her, though she was a carbon copy of many girl characters I've run across recently. And I
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