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Scrivener's Moon

(Fever Crumb Series #3)

Philip Reeve (Goodreads Author)

3.95 · Rating details · 1,671 ratings · 167 reviews

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.

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Published April 4th 2011 by Scholastic (first published January 1st 2011)

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Jun 08, 2011 Josie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: five-stars, young-adult, lgbtqia, fantasy

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This was such a brilliant book, but at the same time such a harrowing read! I guess when the main plot of a book is a huge war then it's clearly not going to be all sunshine and daisies, but there were some really awful moments. (Gwen Natsworthy's hair flapping in the breeze like a flag. :\ ) Charley Shallow was a chilling villain. What a psychopath! His cold, calculated reasoning was horrible and yet you could see that it made sense. I think Dr Crumb's gradual transition into a completely ratio This was such a brilliant book, but at the same time such a harrowing read! I guess when the main plot of a book is a huge war then it's clearly not going to be all sunshine and daisies, but there were some really awful moments. (Gwen Natsworthy's hair flapping in the breeze like a flag. :\ ) Charley Shallow was a chilling villain. What a psychopath! His cold, calculated reasoning was horrible and yet you could see that it made sense. I think Dr Crumb's gradual transition into a completely rational man of science was just as chilling, though, if not more so, because he started off as likeable. It's strange: in Fever Crumb I liked Dr Crumb and thought him a far better parent than Wavey. But as I read this book I found myself warming to Wavey and completely going off Dr Crumb. How people change!

Anyway, onto the things I did love. First and foremost: Cluny Morvish!!! Oh my goodness, Cluny. Her broad hips and her mammoth-coloured hair and the way she "didn't just roll her Rs; she bowled them". And her hunting and tracking skillz! How amazing was she! And the love story! I can't praise highly enough books where there's a girl/girl romance that happens as naturally as a boy/girl relationship with no fuss or indication that this is different or special. And Cluny and Fever worked so well together! I never liked immature Arlo, so I was glad that Fever got over him and moved on. Fever and Cluny were so different, and there were moments of huge betrayal between them, but in the end they learnt from each other. So wonderful. ♥

I also loved the nightwights, and the whole mystery of Skrevanastuut, and the journey that Fever, Cluny, and Marten made to get there. Mammoths! And the scenery of the north with the icebergs and the beach and the Fuel Country. I absolutely pored over the map at the front of the book.

There were some really amusing bits too. Like when Cluny and Marten are talking about nightwights and Fever says, "The Guild of Engineers does not accept the existence of nightwights." Three pages on, when they're being attacked by nightwights, Fever thinks, "So much for the Guild of Engineers. If she ever got back alive to London she would have to set them straight on the anthropology of the north." I suppose that's also a nice illustration of how Fever gradually comes to reject the more extreme aspects of her upbringing among the engineers. Her eventual acceptance of her feelings was lovely.

I would be happy for the series to end here, with everything hopeful and happy and settled, but at the same time I would love to read more about Fever and Cluny! I confess: I am more than a little bit smitten with them both. ...more

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Jun 01, 2011 Kathryn Hyde rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: children-s

SPOILER ALERT

SHE IS A GAY!!

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Oct 27, 2013 Rebecca rated it it was ok

I'm a big fan of Philip Reeve. I enjoyed the first two volumes of the Fever Crumb trilogy even more than the four-volume Mortal Engines series and the three-volume Larklight, so I had high hopes for Scrivener's Moon.

I pretty much hate books that are long not because of necessity, but because of poor editing. This book has the opposite problem. The pacing rushes us through one new discovery after another, without letting us enjoy the gradual discovery of the origins of the Scriven, the lost "cous I'm a big fan of Philip Reeve. I enjoyed the first two volumes of the Fever Crumb trilogy even more than the four-volume Mortal Engines series and the three-volume Larklight, so I had high hopes for Scrivener's Moon.

I pretty much hate books that are long not because of necessity, but because of poor editing. This book has the opposite problem. The pacing rushes us through one new discovery after another, without letting us enjoy the gradual discovery of the origins of the Scriven, the lost "cousins" to the Scriven, and what happened in the Downsizing. Much of the history of the Scriven and the Downsizing is provided via an info-dump offered by (view spoiler) with no opportunity for readers, or Fever, to make their own guesses. Where's the suspense? These discoveries should have been hinted at gradually, one clue at a time.

Another complaint: There is a large amount of head-hopping. At first, it is broken up by chapter, or at least by scene, but as the story hits the last third, there are numerous instances of head-hopping within a single scene.

The best writing, unfortunately, is not from Fever's perspective, but from that of Charley Shallow. Unfortunately, he becomes so uniformly evil, he eventually becomes a caricature, rather than a complex and believable character. I felt this was a lost opportunity.

This book has a GBLT subplot, which parents should know before deciding whether the book is right for their family members. Even those readers who are comfortable with it may find that segment of the book poorly written. (view spoiler) Regardless of my personal beliefs about the appropriateness of LBGT material in YA novels, I'm docking the book for mishandling of this subplot.

More complaints: Like another commenter mentioned, I wanted Arlo back. It seemed odd to spend so much time on him in volume two of the trilogy, then dump not only him, but his scientific discoveries. I also wanted more of the Nightwights.

Mostly, I wanted Reeve back to his usual quality. There are moments of clever writing, elegant description, and humor in Scrivener's Moon, and I appreciated getting the scoop about the Downsizing, etc. at long last, but overall, I'd consider this novel a disappointment. ...more

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Sep 14, 2011 Katrina added it

Recommends it for: Fans of the Series

Shelves: fantasy, adventure, teen

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

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Sep 18, 2012 Sesana rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, audiobook, young-adult

Probably, this will be the last book in the Fever Crumb series. It's fulfilled what was probably its main purpose, to show how the age of traction cities (shown many years later, in far more detail, in the Hungry City Chronicles) began. I read those books first, though strictly speaking you wouldn't have to. It might actually be preferred, since I had a fair idea of what would become of the nomad tribes' war on mobilized London before it even began.

Scrivener's Moon has more than one viewpoint c ...more

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Jun 27, 2011 Evan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Apr 26, 2019 Jenny rated it it was amazing

Excellent finish to the series. Fever has found her feet and her voice finally. Experiencing a huge loss, she becomes more herself than she ever could have been stifled by the engineers she grew up with. It would be amazing if there was more of her story, but I am looking forward to reading the Mortal Engines now.

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May 23, 2019 Joyce rated it really liked it · review of another edition

My favorite of the three.

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Jun 06, 2018 Myles rated it it was ok

The story progressed nicely, Fever's character grew leaps and bounds. The world grew as well. Allot of threads that could be picked up on, or at the very least thought and debated.

I still have issue with the slams toward religion, and the agenda pushing by the author. It tainted the overall story for me, and I had a hard time holding my interest because of it.

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Jan 16, 2014 Finn Longman rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: outread-aubrey-2014, canon-queer-characters

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. My favourite thing about this entire book? The relationship between Fever Crumb and Cluny Morvish. So this isn't a review of the whole book, just that, and it's fairly incomplete as reviews go anyway because I already wrote about this on my blog and it's essay-length and it wouldn't fit here.

You have to understand the significance of it just because of who the characters are before you can start, of course: a female Engineer taught since childhood not to feel emotions (though she previously succ My favourite thing about this entire book? The relationship between Fever Crumb and Cluny Morvish. So this isn't a review of the whole book, just that, and it's fairly incomplete as reviews go anyway because I already wrote about this on my blog and it's essay-length and it wouldn't fit here.

You have to understand the significance of it just because of who the characters are before you can start, of course: a female Engineer taught since childhood not to feel emotions (though she previously succumbed to feelings for Arlo Thursday) and a girl from a Northern nomadic tribe with beliefs wrapped up in superstition and everything Fever thinks is silly.

Of course, it's also a rare f/f relationship in mainstream YA fiction that's only a subplot to the main story, and involves the protagonist. Can we say QUEER FEMALE PROTAG? Yes we can. Yes we most certainly can.

I greatly admire Fever Crumb. As a female character, she’s something we don’t often see: scientific, intelligent, calculating, she makes her way in a male-dominated field even within the novel itself and holds her own. She’s not only clever but well-educated, and although she’s brave it’s not necessarily in the stand and fight way, but in a more cerebral way.

Imagine my disappointment when, in book two, Fever behaved exactly like every other female teenage character I’ve ever read and fell in love with a dashing young man who built flying machines. (Okay, maybe not the last bit.) Isn’t it a shame? I thought. Isn’t it a shame that this wonderful character that I admired and looked up to turned out to be straight as a ruler?

And then, in the third book, she sees Cluny riding on a mammoth and feels something. It’s a throwaway line, but I noticed it. And I thought, I ship it. Of course, I was fully under the impression it was just wishful thinking, because it was so long since I first read the book that I had no memory of what came later, and for a futuristic world in which morals and societal values are so different, Reeve’s creation was looking just a little bit too straight for me.

Maybe a lot too straight. So wasn’t I delighted when, as the book progressed, it became apparent that Fever really did have feelings for Cluny? And wasn't I even more delighted when, as the novel progressed, I came across the best presentation of a queer female character I've ever read -- or at least, the one with which I could identify EXACTLY, which spoke to me on a deep and personal level?

I needed to read this book a year ago. I really did.

People have raised objections about the relationship, so I wrote a super detailed post refuting those issues on my blog -- it's too long for a review here. 'A Feverish Love Story' (-- Miriam Joy Writes) Because I was so happy about it, and I loved it so much, and that's what pushed this up to 5 stars instead of the 4 I probably would have given it otherwise. (Maybe even three. Who can say? It'd have been a different book.) ...more

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Jan 14, 2013 Jessica rated it liked it

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Originally posted at Authorly Insane

Fever's back with her family, and she's seeing that London's going mobile. An old friend of her mother's comes to town with news of a strange pyramid in the north. So, she and her mom go north. Shenanigans ensue.

So, at first, I was all over this book. I love Fever Crumb's character, and I really love the world Mr. Reeve has created. This was no exception. The writing was phenomenal. He drags you into a story, and suddenly the rest of the world doesn't exist. T Originally posted at Authorly Insane

Fever's back with her family, and she's seeing that London's going mobile. An old friend of her mother's comes to town with news of a strange pyramid in the north. So, she and her mom go north. Shenanigans ensue.

So, at first, I was all over this book. I love Fever Crumb's character, and I really love the world Mr. Reeve has created. This was no exception. The writing was phenomenal. He drags you into a story, and suddenly the rest of the world doesn't exist. The various 'call-backs' to current society (apps, the lamp, etc.) make me giggle and really puzzle my mind as I try to figure out what various things represent. Nintendo Tharp's name in particular made me laugh every time I saw it.

However, there were some things I noticed that just didn't set right with me.

First off, the pacing was totally different. It was much faster than anything else I've read from Mr. Reeve, but that's not terribly terrible. It was just different, and I really didn't care for it after having much more think-oriented plots.

Second, Fever's character seemed to be totally thrown out the window. What happened to her being completely and utterly logical? That was the Fever I thought ingenious; not this 'I must save my friend who is on the enemy side!' nonsense.

I also could not stand the character Cluny. She irritated me. She made very poor choices (let me just say, you never ruin knowledge) and she was kind of annoying. Plus, she shared names with Cluny the Scourge, and anyone associated with that rat is never going to be on my happy list. More so, the fact that she was a love interest (which was explained somewhere in the book, something to do with the tech in Fever's head screwing with her own memories) really rubbed me wrong. It was very pander-y and very not necessary. I didn't even like Arlo, so why on earth would I like anyone else?

Finally, I wanted a different ending. Something a bit more tragic, maybe. However, when reading, we rarely get what we want, so oh well. I can let that one slide.

A side-note I just recalled- the villains in this book were spectacular. The reader watched them descend into their villainy, and it was amazing. That can make up for a lot of what disappointed me in this book.

Overall, it was my least favorite of the series. Still, I'm going to be reading the rest of the Mortal Engines series (I never finished books 3 and 4) since it seems to be the general consensus that the Mortal Engines books were better than the Fever Crumb books.

I sure hope that it's got a better ending. ...more

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Jan 09, 2011 Josh Alliston rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy, young-adult

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 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 showdowns and, of course, hulking great traction cities. The gritty, dirty, noisey cities trapesing across dusty wastelands, heroic battles, and journeys to far off lands, these are the things that made the original books something special, it's what made them great, and it's was makes this new book almost equal to them. Almost.

That's not to say that there weren't flaws, but in truth they were fairly minimal. A few silly jokes made me grimace - mainly place names like Hamster's Heath and Hamsterdam, which felt overly childish - but there were a couple, often aimed at older readers, that did make me smile – Mott & Hoople Orphanage being one of note. There was also a little teen angst that I hadn't noticed in the other books, such as Fever, our heroin, getting a little confused with her sexuality and resigning herself to admiring from afar. It didn't bother me much though, and I'm starting to think I'm just nit-picking for the sake of it.

There are some great new editions character-wise. Cluny, a headstrong warrior princess afflicted by visions of a terrible future, is likeable and realistic, whilst the strange, seemingly heartless Charley is a great villain – one that you can never quite understand, yet in a weird way feel sorry for. There is also a new race of people, the cave-dwelling Nightwights. These strange, terrifying creatures may hold a key to Fever's own past.

All in all Scrivener's Moon is the Mortal Engines series back on form. It was great to learn more about the history of their world and I thoroughly look forward to returning to it in the near future. It has made me desperate to go back and read the originals, and that is high praise indeed.

Thank you, Philip Reeve.

Highly Recommended. ...more

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Sep 28, 2011 Jonathan Terrington rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: children-s-literature, favourites, favourite-series, science-fiction

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

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Sep 10, 2011 Peter rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy, books-i-own, science-fiction, adventure

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

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Mar 29, 2015 The Book Queen rated it it was ok

Better than Fever Crumb but not as good as A Web of Air. Obviously, this is because Arlo Thursday does not appear in it, and as this book ties up all loose ends, I doubt he will ever appear again. *weeping*

I loved how Shrike's story was interwoven so well throughout Scrivener's Moon and the rest of the series, as he's one of my favourite characters in the Mortal Engines saga.

I applaud Reeve for (view spoiler) ...more

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Jan 28, 2016 Victoria rated it really liked it

Shelves: lgbt, sci-fi, young-adult

I can't believe Fever is bi and it was so well done. It wasn't a big deal and AHHHH why can't all YA be like this: well written, engaging plot, well developed characters. Most of the time I forgot I was even reading a YA.
For the last in the trilogy, this book did have a more epic scale than the other and was a lot better than the rather flat second story of the series. There was a lot of interesting concepts I'm looking forward to seeing again in Mortal Engines.
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Aug 21, 2016 Nella rated it really liked it

Shelves: steampunk, lgbtia

World building is amazing as always, and I really liked the character development in this, both in Fever and in the villain (he was the type of villain I love to hate, and who manages to be completely despicaple and still have personality and development). Also the romance was really cute, and I loved the connections to Mortal Engines (let's be real, I love anything that has to do with Mortal Enginges)

~~why isn't there a book four though I super need it~~

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Apr 10, 2016 Jenny Clark rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: distoypian-and-post-appolycptic, sci-fi-and-fantasy

Very exciting and the way Fever has changed and grown is great. The growth of all the characters is really great.

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Feb 15, 2019 Chelsea Walker rated it it was ok

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Here I am, having read all 3 books in the trilogy without reviewing any of them yet. It feels silly to go through and write full reviews on the first two, now that I've finished the whole series, so I will put most of my thoughts into this review.

First thought - I enjoyed this series significantly less than the original Mortal Engines quartet. I grew to love the world and characters so much in Mortal Engines, but all three of these books fell flat for me. They lacked the same type of magic and p Here I am, having read all 3 books in the trilogy without reviewing any of them yet. It feels silly to go through and write full reviews on the first two, now that I've finished the whole series, so I will put most of my thoughts into this review.

First thought - I enjoyed this series significantly less than the original Mortal Engines quartet. I grew to love the world and characters so much in Mortal Engines, but all three of these books fell flat for me. They lacked the same type of magic and personality I had loved from Mortal Engines. Maybe this can all be blamed on the writing, but I think the biggest problem for me was the audiobook renditions. First, this trilogy was not voiced by the same narrator as the Mortal Engines, my beloved homeboy Barnaby Edwards. But the injustice does not end there -- ALL THREE BOOKS in this series were narrated by A DIFFERENT PERSON. EXCUSE ME?? How do they even allow this to happen? The first book was read by the author himself, which was all fine and dandy. Clearly not Barnaby, but I could forgive. The second book is read by a LADY, so talk about a huge shift in character voice. And, as I've already forewarned, the third book is read by yet another woman, who had very specific accents and inflections for characters I had just been getting used to in Book Two. Not only did this prove for a horrifically less enjoyable experience, but it made the main character, Fever Crumb's, growth as a character seem unrealistic and unsatisfying. As a character who starts out an emotionless engineer, and is supposed to evolve rather drastically away from that in her character arc at the end of Book Three ... to say that it fell flat would be an understatement.
May I have felt differently if I had read these three books, rather than listened to the audio version? Perhaps. But I feel confident in saying that I still wouldn't have enjoyed them as much as their predecessors.
#Barnabyforever
(The above information has been bothering me for quite some time, so excuse my heated exuberance).

That all being said, there were still positive components to this trilogy's existence. Some of them are as follows:
- Learning the origin story of London. Getting to meet Quirkus and things that are alluded to in the Mortal Engines. Having already met Tom Natsworthy's London, it was interesting to see it's baby beginnings. (Also, shout out to a Natsworthy ancestor! Who totally dies ... so, good thing there were other Natsworthy's to carry on the line to Tom!)
- Seeing the battle between opposing forces in this story, and the mirroring struggle that will later befall Mortal Instruments world. The fight against the advancement of technology, and traction cities, and municipal darwinism.
- Learning the origin story of Shrike ... or should I say, Grike.
- Getting to meet Clooney - I'm convinced her role in her society has some sort of link to the Margravine we see later in Mortal Engines, Freya. Also, there has to be a reason that there's a dwarf character in this series, and the margravine in the future always has a dwarf working under them?
- I appreciated that we eventually found out who and what the Scriven were.
- Mr. Reeve has a way with names.

Some more mention of more negative things:
- All of a sudden, in this third book, there are MAMMOTHS?? People be riding mammoths now, without really having introduced this fact in the first two books and it ... just ... bothered me.
- The ending of this book, of the series, wasn't nearly as satisfying as the final Mortal Engines scene.
- What happened with Fever Crumb and the remaining Night White Scriven? Maybe it's just me, but I don't remember there being mention of Scriven or anything in Mortal Engines world?
- Also, I use Scrivener to write, so it seemed weird to have the word take on this whole new life in this series.

Anyway. There were some benefits to reading this trilogy, but I'd rather mostly forget about it, and go on remembering Tom and Hester and Wren and Shrike and Anna Fang and Professor Pennyroyal forever. ...more

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Mar 04, 2019 Raziel rated it really liked it · review of another edition

“If people wanted to exploit him it seemed to him that he’d best beat them to it and exploit himself.”

“Like wars are freaks of nature that fall all unbidden on poor human beans.”, Borglum

“Here in the north we believe that there is no such thing as time. It is an illusion. While we live we must accept it, but when we die our souls will be freed from time and we will be able to see it all as one huge pattern of unchanging moments: the past; the present; the future; all one. Your mother’s life was ...more

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Feb 03, 2018 Geoff Lynas rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2018-challenge

I am saddened to come to the end of the series. The final book is powerful and I found it gripping. I will catch up with the lost sleep soon enough. Once again, the tale is not for the faint-hearted. There is a lot of death and destruction, perpetrated by both sides. Rich characters morph over time from endearing, lovable and sympathetic to sociopathic, psychopathic and murderous. And, given their circumstances, it's understandable. Reminiscent of good old, horrible old, Hester Shaw. My only qui ...more

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May 09, 2017 NickyQoo rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi, fantasy

Now I have to go cry in the ocean now because it' pretty much sure that the 4th book won't happen. And I know how good Philip Reeve can tie his ending, but things happens. Cliffhanger, so be it.

It's not dearly to me as Mortal Engines Quartet does but I do adore it. One thing I think this series does better than ME was the nuances in character's growth. ME's characters are more extreme. They did something so unforgivable and then do something incredibly endearing. (Yeah, you, Hester, especially.) ...more

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Jun 10, 2019 Johnny Bennett rated it liked it · review of another edition

Scrivener's Moon finishes up the prequel trilogy. The weakest part of the series it just doesn't grab the imagination as the earlier books do. The book seems more about filling out Reeve's agenda, which probably includes finishing and publishing a book to meet the contract needs.

Generally targeted to teenagers, it introduces a lesbian character. Reeve's talks about attraction but nothing more graphic than that. Generally everything stays PG. Very little graphic imagery in the war department.

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May 24, 2018 Kristina Marie rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: 2018, audio, series-done

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Jan 31, 2018 Katherine rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy-scifi, fantasy, public-library

Fun Mad Max-esk post-apocalyptic, tech-worshiping world. A while since I read the first two so took a while to remember everyone. Good adventure of self-discovery and amusing commentary on confusions of taking either religion or rationality too far.

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Mar 21, 2019 Melissa rated it really liked it

Very solid end to the triology, but nothing that really surprised me except for Charlie's character development. I'm quite glad he stayed believable until the end. There are a few too many main characters and I lost track of some of them after a while.

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Feb 24, 2019 Aimee rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: dystopia, science-fiction, steampunk, ukya, young-adult-lower

The problem with prequels is that you already know so much of the ending (for instance, we know that London becomes a moving city) and that takes a lot of the jeopardy out of the situation. This wasn't a bad ending, just not as good as the original series.

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Jan 19, 2018 Teresa rated it it was amazing

Though this book was released in 2011, it contains this very timely quote: “Now in the dark, in the cold, they were learning the most important rule of politics; the government was not their friend.”

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Nov 14, 2018 Glenn rated it really liked it

Didn't realise this was a prequel to the author's famous series that's got a film coming out until this third book. Which works out because I'm on the waiting list for the first of said series and I'm almost at top of list!

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Dec 19, 2018 Grace T rated it it was ok · review of another edition

REEVE NO

You had a perfectly good series that I was decently excited about, with cool characters and worldbuilding and excellent writing and hints at stuff yet to come during Mortal Engines...and then you gave Fever a girlfriend.

*sigh*

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About Philip Reeve

Philip Reeve

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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.

Railhead, published by Oxford Un ...more