Reviews

The Cloud Road by Isobelle Carmody

cleverfoxwithcoffee's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

megdenman's review against another edition

5.0

Divine. I loved this story and the accompanying illustrations. It offers the younger reader such gentle wisdom. My favourite quotes from the book include Bily's delight in travelling for the first time: "But how could he have known what it would be like to lie under the vast sky, blue as the egg of a fire lizard in the daytime, or black, with the enormous white moon shining down surrounded by glimmering stars. How could he have guessed how his heart would thrill at the occasional slash of brightness when one of the great boulders that sometimes fell, passed burning overhead. How could he have imagined the loveliness of seeing Zluty smiling at him from the other side of the campfire as a shower of sparks whorled upwards?" I love too Zluty's maturity when he acknowledges "I think I can talk to the diggers better now because I think of them differently...When I was at the cottage, I thought of diggers as simple creatures without many words. Maybe that's how the cottage diggers were, but maybe that is only what I thought, and thinking it stopped me seeing anything else."

teri_b's review against another edition

5.0

I needed to know how the story continues. Luckily, my local library has all three audiobooks in this series available.

Zluty and Bili find themselves in new adventures, and scary ones for that. And there are still questions kept open about the world and what happened and who is who and what is what.

Fantastic world building again and then there is the work on language and representation in language and it is so very well done.