Book Review
By Colorado Kids Advisory Board member Caitlin Rice

Title: Broken Sky #1
Author: Chris Wooding
Illustrator: Steve Kyte
Publisher: Apple
Number of Pages: 160 pages



Do you crave action fantasy books? If you're looking for a book full of action, fantasy and surprise, Broken Sky #1 may be a book of great interest to you. Kia and Ryushi, the main characters, are 16-year old twins of real power who have spent their lives being sheltered by their father from the land past the mountains, where their father's enemies lurk. During their 16 years, or winters, as they call it, they have been constantly practicing their combat skill, which just happens to come in very handy. When Kia and Ryushi become caught up with their father's past and his enemies from the land past the mountains, a tragic event occurs.

Throughout the book, Kia and Ryushi fight many long and harsh battles, trying to defend their rights and their father's rights. They find out that it is not easy to fight battles when you're fighting against people and creatures with many different supernatural powers. Because this is only the first book in the series, my guess is that Kia and Ryushi will have many more battles to fight and that we won't find out whether good triumphs over evil until the very last book.

I thought the characters weren't developed all that well in this book. Even so, I would most definitely recommend it to boys, or maybe even girls, between 7 and 9 years old, who like fantasy stories. For 7-year-olds, the book might be a little difficult to read, but if someone would help them, I think they would be entertained. On the back of the book it says that it is written at a fifth grade reading level, but I don't think that many fifth-graders would enjoy Broken Sky #1 that much. All in all, I think this would be a really fun book for you to read if you crave action and fantasy and can't keep your hands off of action and fantasy books!