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 ...