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Scrivener's Moon (Fever Crumb #3)
by
Philip Reeve
In a future land once known as Britain, nomad tribes are preparing to fight a terrifying enemy - the first-ever mobile city. Before London can launch itself, young engineer Fever Crumb must journey to the wastelands of the North. She seeks the ancient birthplace of the Scriven mutants.
Hardcover, 400 pages
Published
April 4th 2011
by Scholastic
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May 23, 2013
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Scrivener's Moon
By: Philip Reeve
In this excellent, enticing story of the time far in the future after some disaster scattered of ancient people and the knowledge of their machines. Now all have been set back to the basics after the event called the downsizing which the remaining people thing happened because of some old war. Author Philip Reeve goes into a capturing the story of a girl engineer called Fever Crumb whose sole purpose in life is rediscover the secrets of the ancients. In this world...more
By: Philip Reeve
In this excellent, enticing story of the time far in the future after some disaster scattered of ancient people and the knowledge of their machines. Now all have been set back to the basics after the event called the downsizing which the remaining people thing happened because of some old war. Author Philip Reeve goes into a capturing the story of a girl engineer called Fever Crumb whose sole purpose in life is rediscover the secrets of the ancients. In this world...more
In the third volume of Reeve's steampunk dystopia, set a thousand years after the catastrophic "Downsizing" that reshaped the planet and saw the loss of most technology and technological knowledge, Fever Crumb has returned to London with both her parents. Her mother Wavey, last of the Scriven race, and her father, are both engineers working on the latest plan to put London on traction wheels and go mobile. When Wavey and Fever head north, however, to explore a mysterious black pyramid that might...more
Picking up where A Web of Air leaves off, this title follows Fever Crumb to London. Although she is glad to be reunited with her mother and father, she feels uncomfortable in the city, now resting atop huge treads in preparation for moving somewhere else. When she and her mother set off on a journey north, they are betrayed, and Fever watches her mother die before her eyes. She is rescued by a warrior tribe who follow the prophecies of a girl named Cluny whose visions turn out to be related to t...more
A fun and original novel, the third in this series. It does not, alas, live up to the high expectations created by the "Mortal Engines" series and as such is of some disappointment. Perhaps this is because it is written for a younger audience. However, this does not stop some truely darker moments. Reeve does not believe in playing nicely, and is not opposed to doing terrible things to his characters. The villain, Charlie, is excellent - his utter disloyalty to anything except himself and the ea...more
This concluding chapter to the Fever Crumb prequel series brings the entire Mortal Engines saga full circle. Explaining almost every origin of his fantasy world, Reeve has created a science fiction series to be reckoned with.
Although viscerally and beautifully written, Scriveners Moon does have some down points. Like the rest of the prequel series, the book is written in a way that is intentionally simple to make it more accessible to a younger audience. However, this takes away possibilities f...more
Although viscerally and beautifully written, Scriveners Moon does have some down points. Like the rest of the prequel series, the book is written in a way that is intentionally simple to make it more accessible to a younger audience. However, this takes away possibilities f...more
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My dear, dear Philip Reeve, I almost cannot bear to not give your book a five star.
Your syntax and diction were spot on. You wove the story with rule-defying run on sentences. Your metaphors and similes were overwhelmingly real and emotional.
Your plot was exciting, and your characters showed depth and growth and change, and we went through fits of hating and loving and guessing what they would become next.
And we saw that emotion indeed became quite rational to Fever.
But alas. Her character wave...more
Your syntax and diction were spot on. You wove the story with rule-defying run on sentences. Your metaphors and similes were overwhelmingly real and emotional.
Your plot was exciting, and your characters showed depth and growth and change, and we went through fits of hating and loving and guessing what they would become next.
And we saw that emotion indeed became quite rational to Fever.
But alas. Her character wave...more
Is this the end of the line for Fever Crumb?
This book is really about the clash between civilizations and world-views, and Fever Crumb -- the archetypal London Engineer -- makes an interesting stand. In the end, she turns her back on the engineering world-view and personality type of her father in order to close ranks with Cluny (the Morvish nomad girl) and Midge (the nightwight cousin). Evolution has always been one of the big ideas in this series, and Reeve does an admirable job of exploring t...more
This book is really about the clash between civilizations and world-views, and Fever Crumb -- the archetypal London Engineer -- makes an interesting stand. In the end, she turns her back on the engineering world-view and personality type of her father in order to close ranks with Cluny (the Morvish nomad girl) and Midge (the nightwight cousin). Evolution has always been one of the big ideas in this series, and Reeve does an admirable job of exploring t...more
This is the third prequel to the original Mortal Engines quartet and once again features Fever Crumb as the heroine. After the slower pace and narrower canvas of Web of Air Reeve is back to what he does best- back to London - as it begins its transformation into a traction city and back to the faster pace rip roaring stuff that makes the reader turn the page and want more. In truth the Fever Crumb sequence is a coming of age series and in this book Fever finds out more about her own origins and...more
This is the third book in the Hungry City Chronicles. The series is set in a future dystopia where technology has been lost, except for bits and pieces salvaged by the Engineers. The overlord of London, realizing that technology brings power, hopes to make the entire city a moving machine. London is threatened by a Northern alliance of tribes intent upon destroying the city. Fever is caught up in this struggle and travels to the North to find a legendary pyramid that may hold more Ancient techno...more
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Compared to the original series of Mortal Engines I find the prequels lacking the same character. That is to say the protagonist Fever Crumb is interesting but lacks the same depth of interest as, say, Hester Shaw, Tom Natsworthy and the ever intriguing stalker Shrike.
Scrivener's Moon basically continues the story of Fever Crumb and shows the beginning foundation of the traction cities: cities on wheels. The story begins well and finishes smoothly with an action packed battle sequence and some...more
Scrivener's Moon basically continues the story of Fever Crumb and shows the beginning foundation of the traction cities: cities on wheels. The story begins well and finishes smoothly with an action packed battle sequence and some...more
Reeve continues to develop the saga in his prequel: London starts to move and war begins. Fevercrumb is caught up in events, sometimes led by Wavey, her Scriven mother, sometimes by the leaders of London or the warrior tribes of the North. As the novel develops she begins to find her own role as does the disreputable Charlie Shadow,who is prepared to sell anyone out for his own gain. A complicated plot - perhaps at times too complex given the target audience. I enjoyed the sections based on Feve...more
I liked how this book furthers Fever's story and continues to fill in the gap between these prequels and the world of Mortal Engines. These prequels add a great backstory and depth to the Mortal Engines series by illustrating the situations that precipitated the decisions that created the Municipal Darwinism that we see later on.
The introduction of the Nightwights as Scriven descendants was an interesting development and added even more depth to this amazing world. I was as appalled as Fever wh...more
The introduction of the Nightwights as Scriven descendants was an interesting development and added even more depth to this amazing world. I was as appalled as Fever wh...more
A satisfying ending to the Fever Crumb trilogy. Fever is back in London, but she travels north with her mother to try to find a legendary pyramid which may hold some Scriven secrets. However, as they pass through the territory of a northern tribal leader, they are abducted. Fever escapes, but she can not escape the memories of her grandfather, Auric Godshawk, who implanted a chip in her head when she was a baby. Fever meets another young woman who has had the same type of chip implanted, only sh...more
Having just finished the third prequel to the Mortal Engines quartet, I think I can confidently say that the three prequels are worthy companions to the original quartet (despite what others have written). It is true that they don't have the "sweep" of the originals - they are far more epic in nature - but I actually enjoyed (preferred?) the intimacy of these three. In fact, it was the slight loss of intimacy in Scrivener's Moon that made it less successful than the other two. But that is splitt...more
Scrivener's Moon picks up from where A Web of Air left off and is full of the same adventure and the same fantastic exploration of Reeve's world, exploring the frozen tundras of Scotland and giving the reader clues as to what happened to the Ancients. Characters are built rather fantastically, some you love to hate.
I have to say that I found the war bits not as fun as the other two books. Actually, I would say that this is my least favourite of the series so far.
Never mind! Waiting with bated br...more
I have to say that I found the war bits not as fun as the other two books. Actually, I would say that this is my least favourite of the series so far.
Never mind! Waiting with bated br...more
When Fever returned to London she was reunited with her father, Dr. Crumb, and her mother, Wavey Godshawk, who had recently married. Dr. Crumb was working with Quercus, Lord Mayor of London at converting London into a traction town with his new assistant, Charley Shallow. Wavey decided to take Fever north to investigate the source of Stalker brains to assist the transformation of London and during their trip they discovered a plot to attack London by the northern nomad tribes. As the drama of Lo...more
Scrivener's Moon continues the story of Fever Crumb, the principal character who links all the prequels (three, so far) in the Mortal Engines series (known by the descriptive but not very poetic title of Hungry Cities Chronicles in North America, where any reference to the Othello quote is lost). It contains all the usual telltale signs of Reeve's Mortal Engines books: a rattling good storyline; the creation of empathy with some protagonists as well as sympathy for some rather less attractive ch...more
Scrivener's Moon is another great book in the world of Mortal Engines. This is my favorite series of all time. This book combines good humor referencing many modern day popularities like Harry Potter and I pods. Every character has some sort of backstory, and it is easy to grasp their personalities. Very well written, this is one of the best in the prequel series. Reeve takes time to explain everything in the story with great detail, and I have came to love the good guys and hate the villains. R...more
I hate to say this, but for me, SCRIVENER’S MOON is the weakest out of the three Hungry City Prequels. I think it is the plot itself that didn’t reach out to me, but as usual the writing was phenomenal.
Maybe it is simply bad timing on my part. I had recently read the entire Mortal Engines books which exist far ahead into the future of Fever Crumb’s world. Initially reading SCRIVENER’S MOON, I was unfortunately so confused as to what was going on. I had to sort out my World of Mortal Engines time...more
Maybe it is simply bad timing on my part. I had recently read the entire Mortal Engines books which exist far ahead into the future of Fever Crumb’s world. Initially reading SCRIVENER’S MOON, I was unfortunately so confused as to what was going on. I had to sort out my World of Mortal Engines time...more
Originally posted on ThirstforFiction.com
Fever Crumb is back with her father, the logical, scientific engineer, and her mother Wavey, the irrational but excitable Scrivener, but not for long. Within a few days she is back on the road, and this time she is with her mother, travelling to a black pyramid in the north which might hold the long lost knowledge of the Stalkers. While they are gone, London readies itself for departure. The city has been taken apart slowly in recent months and soon the n...more
Fever Crumb is back with her father, the logical, scientific engineer, and her mother Wavey, the irrational but excitable Scrivener, but not for long. Within a few days she is back on the road, and this time she is with her mother, travelling to a black pyramid in the north which might hold the long lost knowledge of the Stalkers. While they are gone, London readies itself for departure. The city has been taken apart slowly in recent months and soon the n...more
Another year, another Mortal Engines prequel. The previous two, Fever Crumb and A Web of Air were OK. They were really quite good when compared to most books out there for teens. The problem was that they just couldn't live up to the pure brilliance, and I say that with conviction, of the original Mortal Engines quartet.
Scrivener's Moon is, without doubt, the strongest prequel yet. It is brilliant. Grander, darker, with more scope, it brings the series back to its roots of long voyages, big show...more
Scrivener's Moon is, without doubt, the strongest prequel yet. It is brilliant. Grander, darker, with more scope, it brings the series back to its roots of long voyages, big show...more
This review was originally posted on ThirstforFiction.com
Fever Crumb is back with her father, the logical, scientific engineer, and her mother Wavey, the irrational but excitable Scrivener, but not for long. Within a few days she is back on the road, and this time she is with her mother, travelling to a black pyramid in the north which might hold the long lost knowledge of the Stalkers. While they are gone, London readies itself for departure. The city has been taken apart slowly in recent month...more
Fever Crumb is back with her father, the logical, scientific engineer, and her mother Wavey, the irrational but excitable Scrivener, but not for long. Within a few days she is back on the road, and this time she is with her mother, travelling to a black pyramid in the north which might hold the long lost knowledge of the Stalkers. While they are gone, London readies itself for departure. The city has been taken apart slowly in recent month...more
Overall I have to say that this series was a disappointment.
After my first reading of Mortal Engines, I was convinced that Philip Reeve was one of the most clever storytellers I'd ever come across. As I progressed through that quartet, Reeve quickly made himself into my favorite author, and the series as my all-time favorite. I loved Tom and Hester, and all of the characters. When I heard that prequels were planned I was absolutely thrilled...
And then I read Fever Crumb... it wasn't bad but it...more
After my first reading of Mortal Engines, I was convinced that Philip Reeve was one of the most clever storytellers I'd ever come across. As I progressed through that quartet, Reeve quickly made himself into my favorite author, and the series as my all-time favorite. I loved Tom and Hester, and all of the characters. When I heard that prequels were planned I was absolutely thrilled...
And then I read Fever Crumb... it wasn't bad but it...more
Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC. This book comes out in November.
Book 3 in the Fever Crumb trilogy (prequel to the Mortal Engines series, (which I do still prefer to Fever's adventures)). I just kind of adore all of the 'rational' thinking in this book.
Summary: In a future land once known as Britain, nomad tribes are preparing to fight a terrifying enemy - the first-ever mobile city. Before London can launch itself, young engineer Fever Crumb must journey to the wastelands of the North. She seek...more
Book 3 in the Fever Crumb trilogy (prequel to the Mortal Engines series, (which I do still prefer to Fever's adventures)). I just kind of adore all of the 'rational' thinking in this book.
Summary: In a future land once known as Britain, nomad tribes are preparing to fight a terrifying enemy - the first-ever mobile city. Before London can launch itself, young engineer Fever Crumb must journey to the wastelands of the North. She seek...more
Why, oh why, don't more people read Philip Reeve's absolutely fantastic books? I have been haunted by this latest in the Fever Crumb series and honestly can't wait until another is published. (I'm assuming there will be another because there are many unanswered question...) This is steampunk for those who don't really see the point of it (like me), a truly imaginative adventure story with intrigue, amazing characters and a plot that keeps this reader at the edge of her seat. And the audio was su...more
My interest in reading more by this author grows. As the third in what seems to be a quartet, this one has yet a different tone than the preceding two. The war has started and people are pushed aside for politics and battles. And as for Fever's new love, a nice twist there. The question to answer relates to all things related this:
"Not ruthless, Lord Mayor," said Dr. Crumb. "Rational."
"Not ruthless, Lord Mayor," said Dr. Crumb. "Rational."
Great stuff. Perhaps some of the plot aspects are becoming a bit predictable (finding old tech and revelations about the Ancients) but Fever is a good character and more on how London became a moving city is cool. Can't wait till the next.
Found a bit slower than first in series but still enjoyed reading. Author tossed bit of romance into this story while expanding personality of main character. Steampunk fans will find invention of airplane a welcome addition to plot.
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Philip Reeve was born and raised in Brighton, where he worked in a bookshop for a number of years while also co-writing, producing and directing a number of no-budget theatre projects.
Philip then began illustrating and has since provided cartoons for around forty children's books, including the best-selling Horrible Histories, Murderous Maths and Dead Famous series.
Philip has been writing stories...more
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Philip then began illustrating and has since provided cartoons for around forty children's books, including the best-selling Horrible Histories, Murderous Maths and Dead Famous series.
Philip has been writing stories...more
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