Title: Engrossing Adventure
Product review: Having read "Skybreaker" without having read "Airborn", I can still enthusiastically recommend this yarn. Too often, sequels depend on the earlier volume and have little integrity as stand-alone titles. And this one stands boldly on its own, head and shoulders above many other YA adventure books. This is a richly detailed alternative-history/light fantasy with interesting characters and intriguing turns of plot, all set in a unique, pseudo-realistic world. Precocious younger readers will enjoy the manageable complexity and scientific elements; older readers will share Matt's desire to assert his independence and prove his worth. Parents and teachers may rest assured that it is uncontroversial, with the possible exception of a scene or social drinking and cigar smooking.
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