Book Review – The Adventures of Ruby Pi and the Aviation Girls by Tom Durwood

Tom Durwood’s new book of YA stories is as exciting as the previous series with Rupa as a star lead, and other young heroines, in their attempts to solve substantial puzzles for the sake of humanity, destiny, and family. Tom’s stories are omnipresent, back dropped against almost all continents. Multicultural premises and adventure add thrill to the overall layout of the storylines!

Yet with some focus on India as Ruby Pi is the title character.

In this sensational collection, “The Adventures of Ruby Pi and the Aviation Girls” you will meet 9 young heroines associated with flights, landmark aircrafts, etc. They take on the world to prove something greater than the average could perceive.

Tom’s books demand time and patience, if that is met, you can enjoy the literary feast he keeps under the table. This aviation book is fascinating with all its stories; unarguably you may find again some of the girls back in the action. Yet it can be read as an independent collection. A young heroine savior for her sister, another one is saving her father’s tugboat, one going against a Roman garrison to save her family…the purpose of destiny and sacrifice runs thematically deep yet pragmatically before their show of cognoscenti.

Tom’s brilliant stroke of narrative binds aviation with the shards of history. A close look reveals that Tom’s stories aren’t one-sided, though he brought focus on design and differences of the flights and aircrafts, from ancient to futuristic Moon colony.

The most compelling aspect is the personal life struggle of all young girls in their sphere of backdrops. The book lands with tremendous scope of creativity with something to teach to young readers with STEM as their faculty in schools and colleges! A short summation of girls may nudge you to think that these heroines are in tandem with their purpose, destiny, and flight. The theme is not alone of history – it clubs well with war and science fiction too.

The narrative of the book is straight with more of dialogues, no monologues or random description. That enables vividness in the soul of the story, you can literally imagine many characters and the action unfolding there. Marvelous…refined…an aviation book at its best.

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