Perhaps this series would be more enjoyable if you've read The Hungry City Chronicles - the series that takes place before this one - but I just couldn't get involved with Fever and this contradictory society.Fever Crumb is an engineer. In fact, the only female engineer in the entire city of Lond...
This is the final volume in the story of the Mumsbys and their friends - a fitting end i think and a satisfying conclusion - not so much as with the characters - as you may realise from me i will not give anything away - but more of an end of the mysteries - who is this person - what is the histo...
Christmas is fast approaching, and the Mumbys anticipate a boisterous holiday full of friends and good food. Unfortunately, the holidays are rather spoiled by a beastly little man and his news that something sinister is lurking at the limits of Known Space. So in the Spirit of Adventure, Art, Myr...
OKAY things that were great about this:-many differently-abled people loving and supporting each other and having a lot of personal agency-Fever as a queer lady! Yes! Yes! I'm about that so much. Fever did not belong in a relationship with a man. Patriarchy and the power differentials of hetero...
Il Quarto Dottore (il mio Dottore), con piccolo cameo dell'Undicesimo, nel pieno della sua attività. Leela e una comparsata di K9 (in carica) fanno da spalla ma sono poco influenti, il pianteta albero è ben congegnato e la storia, come quasi tutte quelle che si intrecciano tra passato e futuro, r...
I didn’t enjoy this book nearly as much as I had hoped. I have read the ‘Mortal Engines’ series of four books by Reeve and loved them all. Reeve was so imaginative in those other books. This book, while well-written and inclusive of flowing language, was just another retelling of man vs. dragon o...
No review in the world could do this book justice. It is amazing, noteworthy, brilliant, fantastic, and every other positive adjective you could think of! Philip Reeve is a genius! I love his writing style, and the ability to crack a joke during the middle of a tense battle scene and still have i...
Bookworm Speaks!Predator’s Gold by Phillip ReeveBook 2 in the Predator Cities Series****The Story: With the great Traction City of London completely destroyed, Tom Natsworthy and Hester Shaw travel across the world, trading with other airships and adventuring on the exciting and exotic routes of ...
Gwyna is just a small girl, a mouse, when she is bound in service to Myrddin the bard - a traveller and spinner of tales. But Myrdin transfroms her - into a lady goddess, a boy warrior, and a spy. Without Gwyna, Myrddin will not be able to work the most glorious transformation of all - and turn t...
Centuries had passed since its founders abandoned the deep-frozen harbour on the White Sea that had given it its name. Peoples from all over the north had joined their caravan as it journeyed on and on, creeping across the world’s steep face in endless search of fuel and pasturage. Their fighting...
I mean Kate. No! It's strictly Guildsmen only. No apprentices..." "Couldn't you pose as a Guildsman or something?" Katherine urged him. "I have a feeling that there is something bad going on, and I think this MEDUSA thing is at the bottom of it." "I'm sorry, Miss," said Bevis, shaking his head. "...
It was so alive and so busy, in fact, that Skarper grew quite weary from all the new sights he saw on the way to the House of Carnglaze. Dr Prong led the travellers back down to the River Ystrad and across another, much bigger, better bridge where no trolls lurked. Soon they were in parts of town...
The last steep ridge of the Shatterlands looms ahead, swaddled in cloud. Even the auxiliary engines have come on stream now, bellowing with the effort as they help to heave the city up this final slope. On the edge of Base Tier, snow blows in between the tier supports, mel...
It was a girlish gesture that she often made, but it looked awful and grotesque, masked as she was in that ugly respirator.It’s really an awful bore being held hostage by mad geniuses and threatened with this or that in order to make one’s mother do their evil bidding. It sometimes seems as if ne...
Then it was replaced by a printed sign that read WOPCART -- SUMMER EXPEDITION (IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF BRIGHTON) The music faded, there was a moment of blackness, and the transmission began again. "Greetings, children of the deep! ..." "See?" asked Fishcake, turning to Wren. ...
It paused there a while, gazing out towards a cluster of islands that rose dark and rugged from the silver water. Birds were streaming in off the sea in long skeins and as the suburb cut its engines the beat of their wings came echoing over the mudflats. Small waves beat steadily against the shor...
Start to scream and thrash and flap his arms, rip off the filthy old robes and scatter bugs everywhere. Because they were in his ears, and up his nose, and down the back of his shirt, and clumped so thickly on his limbs that he could hardly lift his feet. But that made it ...
They wobble on their long new legs like trainee stiltwalkers, teetering and stumbling. That was one reason why Fraddon had decided to take Bryn home. There was so much that the new giant didn’t know. Safe within the Outer Wall, he would have a chance to practise things like walking, and there wou...
Daily Telegraph “[One] of the most talented and inventive of contemporary writers. [Reeve has] a remarkable ability to combine a strong, engaging and beautifully paced storyline with a passion for argument and ideas: makes much of what passes for young adult fiction seem very thin indeed” Robert ...
All the travellers felt a little embarrassed at imposing on the kind princess in this way, and they did their best to help. The Sable Conclave meekly presented her with a bottle of Mendervan wine they’d brought with them to celebrate the reconquest of Clovenstone. Even Skarper peeled some carrots...