Skyship Academy: Book 2: Crimson Rising

            Skyship Academy: Crimson Rising, by Nick James, is a book that continues the events of The Pearl Wars in a way that makes the reader not want to stop. After the battle in Seattle, newfound brothers Jesse Fisher and Cassius Stevenson found their world inside out. Skyship Academy is imprisoning Jesse in his home, afraid of his control of Pearls. Cassius ran to Canada to escape the Unified Party, yet they still threaten him. Jesse finds a red Pearl and starts a sequence that reunite him with Cassius and introduce him to Theo, a Pearlhound with a deadly secret. A larger enemy waits in space, and Jesse and Cassius just might set them loose.

            I really like this book, but I have one complaint; sometimes the characters are really stupid. It’s never both of them, but we learn information from one of them that proves the other’s information wrong, but they continue believing it until it’s almost too late. It really bugs me and made me take a break from reading for a while. Other than that, the book is perfect. It is exciting and mysterious. The books in the series are, in order, The Pearl Wars, Crimson Rising, and Strikeforce.