It's an odd world we live in, is it not? Otherwise how can Philip Reeve write about using 'Cheesers Chrice' as a curse and 'blogger' as an insult? Or about people who think a persisting skin mutation is a sign of racial superiority and then those who hunt them out of jealousy but say it's in the name of peace? And what about those technomancers who play with dials and screws while chanting to the machines like they're gods? So many things that Reeve presents to us are written in such a way that More...

Oh. My. Goodness.
I got chills after finishing this book.
I couldn't do anything but mutter, "Where is the next book? Where Is The Next BOOK?!" Several times when I was reading I would be so startled by the plot that I would exclaim, "What? No way! I can't believe you did this!" and just sit there, trying to process all the wild thoughts running through my head. Philip Reeve had so many plot twists I never saw coming. And when he introduced old characters and you saw someone from the older books a More...

I quite liked this book but I must say I wasn't prepared for this futuristic view of London. I didn't realize I was picking up a sci fi book when I read it. So if you are ready to have your thoughts of what the future holds for the world pick up this book.

I loved the main character, Fever, she is an exceptional girl trying to find her place in the world. I was intrigued by the story of what London is now like and what had happened to help make it that way from the events of recent past.

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In the beginning of the book, the author seems to really stick with the idea of Fever not needing emotions and how she must think them irrational. I thought it was a cool idea, but in the first couple of chapters it gets really old and I kept telling myself that this was just the beginning. I enjoyed the book, though Reeve continued with his idea of a questionable emotionless protagonist, and for the most part it didn't have a “in your face” feeling like the first chapters. The story smoothed i More...

Fever knows a lot of things - she knows the laws of physics, can recite the prime numbers and can tinker with engines. Found orphaned as a baby, Fever was raised by the members of the very logical Order of Engineers and, as the only girl, learned early that feelings are irrational and that everything one does should have a reasonable purpose. Of course, living in a very disorderly and illogical future London makes this very difficult. When a local archeologist comes to the Order requesting Fever More...

It was strange, but that's post-apocalypse sci-fi for you. The setting itself was the strangest and most fascinating part of the book- London after most of the world and its technology and buildings have been demolished and lost in some unexplained tragedy called the downsizing. There are pieces of technology, terminology, and traditions left over but while some of them are reused and recycled and barely understood, others are completely misunderstood. I got a kick out of the brief reference to More...

Reeve, Philip. (2010). Fever Crumb. New York: Scholastic Press. 326 pp. ISBN 978-0-545-20719-5 (Hard Cover); $17.99.

Fever Crumb is very logical for a girl. Girls are not supposed to work for the Order of Engineers. Maybe the fact that she is an engineer and female has the town folk thinking she should be killed.

Notable for its wide assortment of quirky, yet believable characters, Reeve has penned a story that will suck in fans of Mortal Engines (who will enjoy this prequel) and also those who ha More...

This was my first Philip Reeve read, but I’m certain it won’t be my last. I really admire his ability to create such quirky, intriguing scenarios and characters. He plays with your familiarity of London with places names such as ‘Hampster Heath’, ‘B@ersea’, and ‘Eefrow’ and hints at religious legends involving the worship of prophets such as ‘some old-world prophet, ‘Hari, Hari! Hari Potter!’Such details make up part of the intricate world that Reeve has created. Reeve shows a delightful interes More...

This is probably not going to be the best "review," as I read this book months ago and didn't finish it. No review then. Maybe a few thoughts on the book?

It's an interesting steam-punkish/post-apocalyptic story about a young apprentice whose life is changed forever when she discovers the terrible secrets of her past.

Okay. So what? Well, there's some neat stuff here (e.g. people reanimated by being stuffed full of gearworks, people with cybernetic implants, the ruined streets of London with scat More...

This was my next pick off “books-to-read-if-you-love-the-Hunger-Games”. The other two I read off the list (Trapped and The Scorpio Races) were great. Riveting. Fresh. Gripping. But my next pick, Fever Crumb, just didn’t have the same effect on me. It took me several days to finish it and all the while I kept wondering why it made the list.





The story line itself was excellent. Thrilling. Well told. Extremely well thought out. Intriguing. One of my first (and remaining) thoughts was, “I would love More...

I listened to the audio book Fever Crumb by Phillip Reeve because it was listed as one of the YALSA 2012 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Top Ten. The set consisted of 6 CD's and each one was an hour long. I have never listened to an audiobook before and I have to say it was not an enjoyable experience. I will admit that I am a visual learner and have difficulty remembering or even understanding what I only listen to (for instance I need directions written down, not told to me, and you might More...

My review is based on the audiobook version narrated by Philip Reeve, the author. Also, I should mention, I've never read or listened to the Hungry City Chronicles (though they are now on my to-read list).

I listened to this over the course of many months due to breaking my iPod and then getting mono so I wasn't exercising as much (my usual time for listening to audiobooks). Despite the big gaps between listening, I was never confused. The characters are original and distinct. I loved Fever. Ther More...

Fever Crumb by Phillip Reeves is about a girl name Fever who was abandoned as a child and taken in by a group of men know as the Engineer’s Guild. The engineers raised Fever based on their beliefs so she became every logical, rational, and finds no need for emotions. She lives in London but has never left the giant head of statue that is her house. One day she was assigned a job of helping a archeologist with a dig that could lead to finding a lot of ancient technology. This is important because More...

Honestly, it’s more like a 2.5 stars. It’s not badly written but it is not my thing. This is my second book by Reeve, who is considered a steampunk master, but I didn’t really like either of them that much and I do see things repeating in his stories (very depressing far-future dystopias and cities that walk around under their own power).

Fever, however, is an interesting character which is why I even finished the book. Fever Crumb it the titular character, a fourteen year old girl who was a foun More...

Philip Reeve packs so much into what seems like too few pages to hold all of the characters and events that unfold in the first volume of his new series. Set in the same world as his Mortal Engines quartet, in a distant future London.

Fever Crumb is a foundling girl raised by the super-rational Order of Engineers. She ventures into the wider world in the employment of archaeologist Kit Solent. As she is confronted with the irrational world outside of the Order, her confusion is compounded by str More...

Well, this is a steampunk book if you've ever read one. It takes place in a vauguely post-apocalyptic London. Fever Crumb is the only female in the Order of Engineers, and when London is attacked, she starts to find out startling facts about her past, who she is, and exactly whose brain is in her head. Philip Reeve has a comfortable writing style and many sly allusions to things that exist now that make the reader chuckle. I certainly did anywyas. While a few of his characters could have used a More...

The book name ‘Fever Crumb’ is based on the girl in the book. She lives with Dr. Crumb who trains her as an engineer. After a while she uncovers a mysterious secret about her true parents… I think that this book was quite strange and different from other books as it created completely new things and a new world. When I read the first chapter I was quite fascinated about the book. Even though I could not understand what was going on, I suddenly knew that it was different and I wanted to know more More...

Fever Crumb was the adopted daughter of Dr. Crumb. He has often told her the story of how he found her in a basket and knowing he could not take her to the orphanage destroyed by the Skinner riots, he took her to his home. Fever grows up in a man's world of engineers. Her head is shaved and she is taught not to give into sentimentality. She must think and behave like an engineer, suppressing emotions. When she is sent on her first job to help Kit Solent on a secret archeology project, she has to More...

Another in a line of books positing what our future will be like. In this book, Fever Crumb is orphaned and raised by the Order of Engineers. The engineers strive for a logical existence, shunning all displays of emotion, in their search for how things work. Fever is the only female living in Godshawk's Head, the home of the engineers...it really is a head!...and she shaves her head since having hair is illogical.



Fever searches for the meaning of her existence as she is on her journey to help Ki More...

This book gets two stars because the beginning interested me and because the writing was kinda good.
Kinda.
Otherwise...it just didn't do it for me. At all. While the plot elements reminded me of a combination of
The Lab and Skulduggery Pleasant I found it rather lacking.
Fever (what kind of a name is Fever anyway?) Crumb has been raised by a bunch of old guys who shave their heads bald and work at being rational. No emotions. And they live in a giant head where the door is a nostril. Fever, at fo More...

by Philip Reeve

Opening line: "That morning they were making paper boys."

This book! Is so good! I loved it! I am exclamatory!

After Londoners overthrew their Scriven overlords, Dr. Gideon Crumb, a member of the often-reviled Order of Engineers, found "a baby in a basket with an old blanket laid over her and a label tied around her wrist, upon which someone had written just four words: Her name is Fever." So he took the child back to London, to Godshawk Head where the Order lives and raised her to More...

"Her name is Fever." These four words are the only clue to Fever Crumb's identity. When she was a baby, she was found abandoned in a basket by Dr. Crumb, a highly respected member of the Order of Engineers, an organization that prides itself on reason and logic. Despite the fact that the Order does not believe that the female mind can be logical, as Fever grows up, she becomes, at the age of 14, one of the Order's brightest and most rational students. Soon, though, she must say goodbye to Dr. Cr More...

I am in love with this book.

It was so hard to put down to do anything -- bathe, compile a Halloween costume, have normal face-to-face conversations with friends I haven't seen in far too long. No matter where I was physically, my mind was still in the complex steam-punk world that Reeve built. Fever reminds me a little of Lyra in The Golden Compass, with her education and origin story, but she also felt like a new creature. After watching the first 20 minutes of Coraline with 15 classes while my More...

Set a few hundred years after the fall of our own civilizations, London is still recovering from the revolution which freed the commoners of the oppressive rule of the Scriveners, a slightly mutated form of human. In this world, Fever Crumb is the first female to ever live in the prestigious Order of Engineers, known for their aesthetic lifestyle and adherence to logic. She has never much left the Order’s home until a former Engineer, Kit, requires her help at an archeological dig. For some reas More...

Fever Crumb came highly recommended by one of my best friends, and although I didn't love it, I did enjoy it and I can definitely see why she liked it. The characters are fun and likable (or, in the villains' cases, distinctly unlikable), the story-world is very well-developed, the story is intriguing, and it's funny. One thing I particularly liked: in this new post-apocalyptic world, they use a lot of our words to mean different things, and "blog" is a swearword! Also, someone has discovered Ha More...

The master of steampunk for teens returns to his disturbing futuristic Hungry City Chronicles with an interesting prequel that introduces how the world found itself with traveling city and a culture that seems to have fallen backward in time when it comes to technology.

His newest heroine is Fever Crumb, a 14-year-old orphan being raised by an Engineer. While girls are not normally allowed into the Order of the Engineers, she has been educated in order to be one of them. Her adoptive father, Dr. More...

Man, I love Philip Reeve. He has such a way with words--language is as significant a part of his books as the story, characters, setting, themes, etc., and those are pretty great, too. Do be prepared to have your heart wrenched around a good bit--his are not happy-go-lucky tales. Like his other SF, Fever Crumb does what all good SF should do: show us how people are changed by changes in technology, both on a broad society level and on a very intimate personal level. He also manages to weave a fa More...

Reason for Reading: The plot was intriguing and this is my type of book.

A foundling baby girl found by the Order of Engineers, a male society, is taken into the fold and raised to be one of them. The baby came with a note stating her name is Fever and since Dr. Crumb found her it was reasonable that he was the one who took the main caregiver role. 14 year-old Fever is now being sent off to assist an archaeologist, Kit Solent, in his home but when she arrives there she starts having memories of t More...