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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is a very exciting sequal to Airborn. This book is about a boy who goes treasue hunting on an airship with some of his friends from the first book. Once again he runs into pirates who all so want the treasure. The ship with the treasure is extreamly high and dangerous. It is very exciting at all parts (  ) MrFClass | Nov 13, 2009 |  Thriller with loads of action and adventure. AHS/LM edspicer | Sep 21, 2009 | Kearsten says: This was interesting - I wouldn't read it, and would prefer a regular audiobook (I find full-cast audio incredibly annoying), but I did enjoy it. Matt Cruse is back, now enrolled in the Airship Academy. When the ship he's interning on comes in contact with the legendary ship, the Hyperion, Matt becomes a target for pirates intent on stripping the Hyperion of its alleged treasure. However, since Matt is the only crew member alive who remembers the coordinates of the Hyperion, he decides to find the Hyperion himself, with Kate, a gypsy and a rogue airship pilot. Skybreaker is fast-paced and exciting, with a little bit of romance thrown in. Recommended. (  ) 59Square | Sep 4, 2009 | This was interesting - I wouldn't read it, and would prefer a regular audiobook (I find full-cast audio incredibly annoying), but I did enjoy it. Matt Cruse is back, now enrolled in the Airship Academy. When the ship he's interning on comes in contact with the legendary ship, the Hyperion, Matt becomes a target for pirates intent on stripping the Hyperion of its alleged treasure. However, since matt is the only crew member alive who remembers the coordinates of the Hyperion, he decides to find the Hyperion himself, with Kate, a gypsy and a rogue airship pilot. Skybreaker is fast-paced and exciting, with a little bit of romance thrown in. Recommended. ( ) kayceel | Jul 17, 2009 | Hurrah, Matt and Kate go off adventuring again. Of course they find a new species, mysterious events abound, danger lurks, sky pirates chase, romantic misunderstandings complicate and all things good I expected from the first book. And the Full Cast Audio performance is a delight as usual. I can't wait for the third book, but this is one that is so enhanced by the audio readings that I have to hold out for Full Cast Audio to work their magic again. I recommend this to anyone who is a fan of fun! ( )1  francescadefreitas | May 26, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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Soon, he and his upper-class sweetheart, Kate de Vries, are embarked on a dangerous aerial treasure hunt, along with Hal, the conceited pilot of a sleek, new altitude-friendly airship, and a mysterious gypsy girl named Nadira, who claims to have the key to the Hyperion's booby-trapped treasure troves. Drawing on the myths of Icarus and Prometheus, as well as classic sea adventures like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Poseidon Adventure, Skybreaker combines an action-packed thriller with a sensitive exploration of the limits of human ambition. Matt's jealousy of the self-made Hal (who he suspects has designs on Kate) and his own furtive attraction to Nadira heighten the emotional tension and raw suspense of the visceral scenes aboard the Hyperion, an ice-entombed version of the Titanic. With pirates, sky monsters, and disturbed spirits, not to mention enough bizarre flying machines to fill an aviation museum (even a bat-copter for Silverwing fans), Skybreaker confirms Kenneth Oppel's reputation as Canada's leading fantasy author for children and young adults. --Lisa Alward
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