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    <body><![CDATA[More Hungry City Chronicles!  More towns on wheels!  More oddly obsessive descriptions of the characters' clothing!  More action, more traction!  <br/><br/>This book leaps forward 16 years from Predator's Gold.  Young Wren Natsworthy is kidnapped after her plans to run away go awry, and her parents,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18805648">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. It's has a great concept: mobile cities roam Europe &quot;eating&quot; each other. It has a nice, if off-beat, feel for London. On the plus side, the novel actively attacks heroic ideals, leaving a darker, more morally ambiguous world view than I'd expected....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2651364">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book, but I think it's the weakest yet in the series. For one, letting your main characters grow up between books rarely works, because they inevitably don't turn out to really be the same characters any more. Which I think is often why authors do it...they're tired of the character as ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42186902">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite YA series.  The setting is fantastic.  In this future when natural resources run low, cities Pull themselves out of the Ground and Mount themselves on Treads.  The cities then roam the countrysides eating smaller cities for the energy and material to keep going.  Look, yum, a 'ber...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40184415">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the future, municipal Darwinism is King. After massive world-wide destruction, cities and towns have become mobile structures lumbering across continents 'eating' each other in a race to acquire more materials, fuel, and even slaves. Young Tom Natsworthy was born and bred in the traction city of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78220902">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading two of Philip Reeve's books within a week of one another, I'm starting to get a feel for his style. I picked the books (this one and <em>Larklight</em>) because of their titles and their covers. Like <em>Larklight</em>, this one has a fascinating and original setting. In this sense, both books remind me...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55902847">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Mortal Engines</em> has been one of the bright spots in my reading year so far--along with the third <em>Bartimaeus Trilogy</em> book! (What took me so long to read either??) I loved this to an irrational degree throughout (my criteria for five stars). But I sure would love to <em>discuss it</em> with more people . . .<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51654470">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is book three in Reeve's Hungry City Chronicles.  I don't read very much science fiction, but this series has intrigued me.  Big cities on the move that &quot;eat&quot; smaller cities, an opposing force called the Green Storm, and well-rounded characters, all make it a worthwhile read.  You'll ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16718863">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Spurred on by Louise and Mr Lux, I found this deeply odd and wonderful kid's book. Set in the far future, cities are mobile, and hunt each other across the vastlands of devastated Europe and the dried-up seas. I really loved the attention to practical details like food production and waste managemen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5279880">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mortal Engines took the stale and overused setting of Post-Apocalyptia and breathed new life into it with something I have never seen before in fiction: moving cities that EAT each other. It may seem like a poor workaround to an actual genius idea, but the author made it work in a big way. The entir...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79864753">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was Reeve's &quot;first published book,&quot; as the author blurb informs us, and indeed, his writing technique is a bit clumsy and raw in places. Even so, I thought this worked very well as a young adult sci-fi/adventure. The characters were interesting, the premise mind-boggling, the action g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31399600">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a spantacular book and an epicacular story!<br/><br/>In a distant futere were cities move about and devour each other (much to the Anti-Tractionists dislike) there are dark secrets and ancient powers.<br/><br/>Tom Natsworthy is sent down to the gut after starting a fight shortly after Lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71388673">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Infernal Devices by Philip Reeve is a story that talks about Wren Natsworthy, who is the daughter of Tom Natsworthy and Hester Shaw, and who feels so bored with her life in the sleepy static of Anchorage-in-Vineland, and goes to join the lost boys, who have turned up on the island in search of a mys...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78996485">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first in a quartet of books and I've been trying to get hold of it for a while, since I always seemed to see the next book in my local library and never this one!<br/><br/>The universe in which these books are set is one of a future Earth where various cities have been rebuilt in such ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41597051">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every time I started getting a little bit complacent, a little bit oh-I-so-know-where-this-is-going it'd snap up and BITE me, and a book hasn't done that to me in an awfully long time. I found Tom a bit bland, but Hester was amazing! And ANNA FANG! And Khora!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading this book, I wanted to go out and buy dozens of copies to give to people I know.  It's an astonishingly good book in just about every way.  I can describe it as a post-apocalyptic steampunk adventure featuring rolling cities that eat other cities, plus a few airships and cyborgs.  That...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71316713">more...</a>]]></body>
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