Sky Raiders

My teenage boys love this series! Very engaging and they breeze through the books in no time! Great option for kids who like fantasy genres.

Awesome. I want another book to come out badly. Hope a movie is soon to follow.I have all the brandon mull books . .and I love them.Any child should have this book!

Cole Randolph was at one of those cooler times in life. He and his best friend Dalton had entered sixth grade so they were the cool "seniors"...It was Halloween and he had a super-cool costume...and most importantly, he was going to be trick-or-treating with a group of friends that included his long time crush Jenna. Could life get any better?But that all changed in an instant as his friends were swept away to a strange and dangerous land, thrown into slavery, and cast upon the winds to the five kingdoms. Cole, himself, becomes a sky raider who's life is on the line with each breath. And his problems are as nothing compared to the actual princess who has been lost for six decades and now needs Cole and his new friends to find her way home.Following on the heels of his two previous wonderful series - FableHaven and The Beyonders - Brandon Mull tosses his readers into a new(ish) universe where the world is full of magic and the dangers are around every corner. As is his creative MO, Mull's protagonists are young and inexperienced yet, that youth and their acceptance of what, to an adult, might seem impossible, gives his readers another fun group of characters that younger readers and more "experienced" types as myself (cough, cough...65) will enjoy and wrap their arms around. Mull has always had the ability to make his characters both young enough to see the world as a new adventure each day, while giving them the strength to face up to, and to overcome, new problems and new hurdles.The FIVE KINGDOMS is exciting and this, the first book, is an amazing kickoff to a fun and wonderful new journey.

Loved it

Once again another classically fun book by Mull. Story flows, interesting, pulls you in. I sometimes struggle to keep everyone straight when there are multiple characters with similar names, he did a good job of keeping most of the names different so I didn't have this issue; but fair note he does introduce a large number of characters and names. If you are like me, keeping a note pad handing to document all the characters might be helpful; but then again Mull does a good job with distinctively different descriptions and characteristics for each character that even with my name deficient hinderance it wasn't a struggle to follow the story or keep them separate.I had just finished the third book in the Spirit Animals series before reading this book. That book was a nightmare to read and a struggle to finish due to grammatical disparities, poor word choice, and constant contradictory disheveled descriptions. It was good to return to a book actually written by Mull, not just someone taking his story and pretending to be an author.