A review by library_brandy
The Floating Island by Elizabeth Haydon, Brett Helquist

3.0

How does a book that includes fire pirates, mysterious islands, mermaids, restless ghosts, and evil spirits still manage to be so dull? For an adventure story, this was pretty plodding. It reads slowly, it's too long, and (frankly) it's not all that compelling. It's not bad, but I don't see myself pushing this one on unsuspecting middle-schoolers. I'm suddenly not surprised the copy at my library has such lackluster circulation.

And I have no idea why there's a dragon on the cover; I don't think there's a dragon anywhere in the whole book.