From Goodreads:  The universe of Orberana is a place of great wonder and peril, a dizzying landscape filled with clouds that can talk, clockwork beings that mark their own time, and painted animals that awake in the night.

Shiewo Morose is the captain of a flying ship powered by music. She is also a determined young woman on a mission: a quest to find the Wishing Fish that created Orberana.

Sailing above the clouds, Shiewo and her crew (Erduu the bamboo, Theo the cloud, Livingston the goldfish, and Felix the painter) are headed for worlds of crazed clockwork bureaucrats, tyrannic kings, and tornado children–worlds that will test not only the crew’s bravery… but their very understanding of adventure.

Theirs is the odyssey of a lifetime…

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This is a very well written, action packed novel for MG and YA readers.  The plot line and characters are extremely original and interesting, spurring the reader on as the many different events unfold.  Cho is a great writer and I think his novel will appeal to younger audiences, though it may not appeal as much to adult readers.  I do think this would be a great novel for parents to read to children, or even for struggling readers to read on their own as the language is very simplistic and easy to understand (not to mention a plot that will captivate the young mind).  I enjoyed the many different imaginative scenes throughout the novel and think Cho is definitely a writer to watch.  Three stars.

I received a copy of this novel from the author in exchange for an honest review.