An interesting take on the whole piratey thing. After mankind blows himself up, some cities re-build their cities with wheels so they can move around and hunt resources. By 'eating' other cities and towns. They justify it by calling it Municipal Darwinism. However, piracy by any other name is s...
Mortal Engines is a simply written book for probably people 45 years younger than me, but that doesn't mean I can't read it an enjoy it, and I did enjoy it. It's not the normal series I would start and read but now I'm hooked and I'll see the series through. That is if I enjoy the next book. It's ...
In a distant post-apocalyptic future, what’s left of humanity lives on mobile cities, traveling the wastelands of a devastated Earth. Resources are scarce and Municipal Darwinism rules the day, or in other words, “It’s a town eat town world.” The world building is fantastic and the characters are ...
The traction city London has been trying to avoid being eaten by bigger and hungrier cities that are in the hunting grounds. But the Mayor has some plans for London that will help it survive for a very long time.Thaddeus Valentine is the Head Historian and he has a daughter named Katherine. One day ...
Mortal Engines is set in a future version of London, in which Admiral Quirke defined the principles of Municipal Darwinism and made London a moving city. After the Sixty Minutes War destroyed most of the world, Traction Cities such as London built engines that allow them to move and go hunting for s...
From the very first page, when we are told that the city of London has gone hunting, I was completely hooked on the world Reeve created. Mortal Engines is set in a steampunk, post-nuclear world. Cities are on wheels, most of them, and consume each other in a system called Municipal Darwinism. Surviv...
I was leaning toward giving this 3 stars as I wholeheartedly agree with the issues my friend Melanie named in her review. But the plot and the worldbuilding and its concepts definitely pulled me toward 4 stars!
A friend introduced me to this book and its opening line:It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.I loved the concept of this book - mobile cities hunting each other like animals, trying to survi...
Mortal Engines was a very enjoyable book. It took me a bit to get into the story, but it held my interest till the end. I did have a slight problem with the matter of tense, though. It jumped back and forth from present to past tense, and although it was nicely separated by breaks, the whole conc...
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