Well what a week it's been! I've finished three books in total, so am quite chuffed with myself (oh dear, pride comes before a fall - best not get too smug). My thirteenth book is Airman, by Eoin Colfer (it's pronounced Owen in case you are wondering), which I read as an audio book. I was introduced to this author by a work colleague who recommended the Artemis Fowl books to me - which are witty adventures for the young at heart that have made me laugh out loud more than a few times (what's not to love about a dwarf with destructive farts!). So, it was with high hopes that I set out on this book about a young boy, Conor Broekhart, whose amazing birth in an air balloon in the 19th century is just the start of a roller coaster of a tale about man's obsession with flight, murder, intrigue and politics. There are great characters on both sides of the fence - with a particularly evil baddie who also gets some funny, if dark, lines. It's a bit like The Three Musketeers meets Leonardo Da Vinci - a swashbuckling fantasy with a smattering of real people and places. I kind of wish that I had read this in paper format, as I found the narrator was a bit off-putting at times - with some odd phrasing - I would not read a book narrated by this chap again, which is a shame. I so wanted to enjoy it as much as I had the Artemis Fowl books, but I didn't - although I fear this could be down more to the narrator than the book itself. An easy read and a good adventure with plenty of action and humour, I'd probably give this 3.5 stars. Maybe I'm just getting a bit long in the tooth for this ... hope not! Will still find it hard to resist the next Artemis Fowl should it come along!
The stats bit:
Length: 432 print pages.
Price I paid: £7.99 (via Audible download).
Other formats available in: print; audio CD; ebook.
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