This is a story about a boy, Matt Cruse, who works as a cabin boy above a passenger airship. The concept is what drew me in. I love the idea of airships being a viable mode of transportation in our world. 
 I don't like to really describe the book too much in reviews but I will say that the whole cloud cat thing (which was a large chunk of the book) was not very appealing to me. I also didn't care to much for Kate. I enjoy a spunky, hard headed girl in stories, but she was too much. I know it was fiction, but even still I want to believe that these things are happening and I want them to feel real. Kate was just a bit too stubborn and ridiculous in the dangerous situations she was put in to be believable. 
 That being said, I am compelled to read the next novel Skybreaker in order to continue Matt's adventure.