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published
March 20th 2006
(first published 2005)
by Scholastic Point
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Paperback, 336 pages
isbn
0439963931
(isbn13: 9780439963930)
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Nearly twenty years after the city of Anchorage settled down on the shores of the Dead Continent of America, Tom and Hester are leading quiet, peacef
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Read in September, 2008
This "sixteen-years-later"-quel suffers from the main problem of letting your characters grow up off screen: when you get back to them they are no longer the people you grew to love or hate or (at least) know. Hester, the grumpy-but-lovable urchin from the previous books, has become a hardened, hateful and hate-filled grown-up with next to no good qualities. She has also who has somehow turned into a warrior extraordinaire in the years she spent in the sleepy backwater of Anchorage-in-...more
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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 is and really want to work with something new. Totally understandable...in my attempts at fiction I'm frequently either sick of or annoyed at my characters 100 pages into it, but readers haven't spent...more
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Read in March, 2008
More Hungry City Chronicles! More towns on wheels! More oddly obsessive descriptions of the characters' clothing! More action, more traction!
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, Tom and Hester (the heroes of the previous two books) chase after her and the three of them are swiftly embroiled in political intrigue, danger, entanglements with evil cyborgs, Falling in Like With...more
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, Tom and Hester (the heroes of the previous two books) chase after her and the three of them are swiftly embroiled in political intrigue, danger, entanglements with evil cyborgs, Falling in Like With...more
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bookshelves:
adventure,
books-in-a-series,
flight,
political-theory,
post-apocalyptic,
science-fiction,
steampunk,
want-to-own
Read in August, 2008
I don't know how it's possible but this series is really growing on me, and the books keep improving as the series goes on. Usually I find books about the children of main characters insufferably annoying, but this one surprised me. And true to the form of the past books, so did the characters. I don't want to spoil anyone's read but I have to say that my favorite thing about this author and this series is that the characters often do things I don't expect, but more than that, neither do they do...more
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Read in January, 2009
Infernal Devices is the third novel in the Hungry City Chronicles. (I reviewed Mortal Engines and Predator's Gold last week.) The novel begins roughly sixteen years after the close of Predator's Gold and eighteen years after the close of Mortal Engines. Our main character, Wren, is the daughter of Tom Natsworthy and Hester Shaw. This once-adventurous pair has been settled in Anchorage--a city who roams no more--for sixteen years. And Wren--though she's heard differently, of course--believes that...more
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Read in February, 2008
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 "eat" smaller cities, an opposing force called the Green Storm, and well-rounded characters, all make it a worthwhile read. You'll definitely want to start at the beginning of the series, though. That would be Mortal Engines.
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Read in December, 2008
recommends it for:
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Read in May, 2006
This is the third installment in a science fiction series (The Hungry City Chronicles) of which I have read no other books. It felt very sequelish: the heroes of the previous books have settled down and had a daughter who grows up with tales of their adventures back in the day. Said daughter then runs away and revisits old villains from said adventures. Despite the rather cliche set-up, it's a reasonably fast-paced book with fairly interesting characters. If I sound a little tepid, there's a rea...more
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Great, except that SIXTEEN YEARS HAVE PASSED SINCE THE LAST BOOK! I think the Philip Reeve should have written another book to fill in the rapidly-passing time frame.
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Read in September, 2008
It was almost as good as the first, Theo was the best.....
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Read in April, 2009
Really enjoyed this. I love the way Reeve never has things turn out as you expect, and also his fully-rounded, unreliable, fickle, believable characters.
Almost wasted on the young :D.
Waterstones.
Almost wasted on the young :D.
Waterstones.
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I've devoured every book in this series finishing them in 48 hours if notunder 24. Philip Reeve has written some brilliant YA pulp adventure novels with this series. I will be crushed when there is no more after A Darkling Plain.
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Read in December, 2007
I liked this book the least from the series. Mostly becasue I want more adventures of Tom and Hester in their prime, I want them to continue on the Jenny Haniver and not settle down. This was still a really good book.
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Read in November, 2008
1)Read this series
2)Read the Twilight series (I actually haven't read it).
3)Answer the question: Who would win in a fight, Grike (Yeah!) or Edward Cullen (Booo!)?
4) (The answer is Grike.)
2)Read the Twilight series (I actually haven't read it).
3)Answer the question: Who would win in a fight, Grike (Yeah!) or Edward Cullen (Booo!)?
4) (The answer is Grike.)
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Read in February, 2008
I can't help it. These books and the Carrie Vaughn werewolf novels are apparently my own personal brand of crack.
I'm still trying to figure out how to articulate why.
I'm still trying to figure out how to articulate why.
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A disappointing sequel, this book lacked the quality of the first two in the series. It also felt cluttered and and times tedious.
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Read in January, 2008
See my review of A Darkling Plain (The Hungry City Chronicles) here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/112...
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