The Floating Islands (Paperback) 9780440240600

from abbylibrarian

An imaginative and engrossing book with pretty much everything you could ask for in a fantasy novel - dragons, mages, secret schools, vivid food descriptions, royalty, orphans... It's a little bit like the Tamora Pierce's Lioness books and a little bit like Megan Whaley Turner's Gen books and I'd...

from C.Ibarra

Trei travels to The Floating Islands to find his mother's family after his parents and sister are killed. He is immediately captivated by the kajurai who soar in the skies above The Floating Islands. Trei vows to become one. Grief-stricken and submerged in a world so different from where he was r...

from msjessie

Jessie's List of Reasons Why *You* Should Read The Floating Islands: ~ magic! (Of the two novels by this author that I have read so far, she takes pains to create unique, if somewhat similar, systems of magic for her fantasy worlds.) ~ magic dragons - some of wind and some of fire! (And both kind...

from krau0098

I have had this book on my to be read pile for quite a while. I really enjoyed this young adult fantasy. There's some great world-building here and I enjoyed the characters and their adventures. The story did take a bit to get going; I thought the first 60 pages or so were a bit slow. After that ...

from C.Ibarra

Trei travels to The Floating Islands to find his mother's family after his parents and sister are killed. He is immediately captivated by the kajurai who soar in the skies above The Floating Islands. Trei vows to become one. Grief-stricken and submerged in a world so different from where he was r...