Mortal Engines (The Hungry City Chronicles, #1)

It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried out bed of the old North Sea The great traction city London has been skulking in the hills to avoid the bigger, faster, hungrier cities loose in the Great Hunting Ground But now, the sinister plans of Lord Mayor Mangus Crome can finally unfold.Thaddeus Valentine, London s Head Historian and adored famous archaeologist, and his lovely daughter, Katherine, are down in The Gut when the young assassin with the black scarf strikes toward his heart, saved by the quick intervention of Tom, a lowly third class apprentice Racing after the fleeing girl, Tom suddenly glimpses her hideous face scarred from forehead to jaw, nose a smashed stump, a single eye glaring back at him Look at what your Valentine did to me she screams Ask him Ask him what he did to Hester Shaw And with that she jumps down the waste chute to her death Minutes later Tom finds himself tumbling down the same chute and stranded in the Out Country, a sea of mud scored by the huge caterpillar tracks of cities like the one now steaming off over the horizon.In a stunning literary debut, Philip Reeve has created a painful dangerous unforgettable adventure story of surprises, set in a dark and utterly original world fueled by Municipal Darwinism and betrayal. Download Mortal Engines (The Hungry City Chronicles, #1) – kino-fada.fr Mortal Engines is an enchanting blend of steampunk, dystopia, and whimsy The adventure is grand, the world is alive, and the characters are memorable In the distant future, the earth is littlethan barren landscape cluttered with the rusted remnants of crumbling infrastructure People have raised the cities from the ground, retrofitting them with rolling tracks and steaming engines to prowl the wastes in search of smaller cities to devour for scrap The mining town saw the danger and turn Mortal Engines is an enchanting blend of steampunk, dystopia, and whimsy The adventure is grand, the world is alive, and the characters are memorable In the distant future, the earth is littlethan barren landscape cluttered with the rusted remnants of crumbling infrastructure People have raised the cities from the ground, retrofitting them with rolling tracks and steaming engines to prowl the wastes in search of smaller cities to devour for scrap The mining town saw the danger and turned tail, but already the huge caterpillar tracks under London were starting to roll faster and faster Soon the city was lumbering in hot pursuit, a moving mountain of metal that rose in seven tiers like the layers of a wedding cake, the lower levels wreathed in engine smoke, the villas of the rich gleaming white on the higher decks, and above it all the cross on top of S...New Review Upon Re ReadingTime has certainly tempered my approach to this series particularly to this book however I remain convinced that this work of fiction remains at a higher calibre of fiction than many others in the same subgenre of YA fiction My re read would therefore re categorise it to closer to 4 or 4....It s town eat town worldI separate YA dystopian books in two categories based on two popular series Hunger games it s children and books similar to Chaos walking Mortal engines is latter.While it s bit older they are definitively branches of the same tree which has roots in old fantasy.Mortal Engines is steampunk dystopia where after huge war ground become unstable and resources become scarce so entire settlements became mobile Thousand years later and towns still roam and devour each otherIt s town eat town worldI separate YA dystopian books in two categories based on two popular series Hunger games it s children and books similar to Chaos walking Mortal engines is latter.While it s bit older they are definitively branches of the same tree which has roots in old fantasy.Mortal Engines is steampunk dystopia where after huge war ground become unstable and resources become scarce so entire settlements became mobile Thousand years later and towns still roam and devour each other for slaves and resources Our protagonist is just poor boy, nobody loves him, who lives in one such city but his lives but after he stops one of towns officials being assassinated by mutilated girl things...Most awesome book 4.5 stars It s a town eat town world Municipal DarwinismMunicipal Darwinism is a concept that hooked me right from the first page Imagine a society where hungry cities roam, searching for prey Imagine these huge cities, shaped like giant steel tiered wedding cakes rumbling around the countryside gobbling up smaller towns and settlements Imagine the noise, the dust, and the deep tracks in the mud This is the intriguing world of theMortal Engines.This is a world set fa Most awesome book 4.5 stars It s a town eat town world Municipal DarwinismMunicipal Darwinism is a concept that hooked me right from the first page Imagine a society where hungry cities roam, searching for prey Imagine these huge cities, shaped like giant steel tiered wedding cakes rumbling around the countryside gobbling up smaller towns and settlements Imagine the noise, the dust, and the deep tracks in the mud This is the intriguing world of theMortal Engines.This is a world set far into the future Society has been destroyed by atomics and viruses in the Sixty Minute War Cities became traction cities because of earthquakes, volcanic activity, and advancing glaciers This b...Originally Posted on Guy Gone GeekWith the dystopian boom the market is now seeing, it s kind of hard to find a true dystopian novel Strange, isn t it There are lots of dystopian novels being published these days but only few of it really fits the genre Yeah, some books tries but that s what makes the difference it tries, it doesn t just be Gone was the bleak tone of the narrative Gone was the relentless nature of the society Gone was the subtle questions the readers have to ask themsel Originally Posted on Guy Gone GeekWith the dystopian boom the market is now seeing, it s kind of hard to find a true dystopian novel Strange, isn t it There are lots of dystopian novels being published these days but only few of it really fits the genre Yeah, some books tries but that s what makes the difference it tries, it doesn t just be Gone was the bleak tone of the narrative Gone was the relentless nature of the society Gone was the subtle questions the readers have to ask themselves What we have instead is a love story that happens to occur in a pseudo dystopian pseudo because it feels completely artificial society It sucks I m not saying that a dystopian novel can t have a love story in it It can but it doesn t have to be the element that thrust the narrative forward and it certainly doesn t have to be the only thing th...I enjoyed itthan I thought I would It s has a great concept mobile cities roam Europe eating 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,morally ambiguous world view than I d expected I especially liked how Reeve initially juxtaposes the beautiful, High London girl Kate, who is oblivious to the oppression that keeps her world afloat, with a physically and mentally scarred Hester, who is b I enjoyed itthan I thought I would It s has a great concept mobile cities roam Europe eating 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,morally ambiguous world view than I d expected I especially liked how Reeve initially juxtaposes the beautiful, High London girl Kate, who is oblivious to the oppression that keeps her world afloat, with a physically and mentally scarred Hester, who is bent on revenge rather than use the beauty as a foil to show the inner beauty of the Hester, both are mixed characters and watching their personal growth was one of the most satisfying parts of the book However, the writing style is a little exposition heavy at times when it comes to the characters feelings and motivations, but becomes less obtrusive as the plot progresses Some of the plot elements are pretty generic, suc...So do they hand out those literary prizes for anything now Second bad review in the same week, but I have to be honest I read this book because my boyfriend read it when he was a kid teen and he said he remembered it as awesome Well, I guess we look at things differently when we re kids.And yet I know a lot of kids books that have brilliant writing, good story building and don t need to be dumbed down.Let me just put it in the form of a nice list The good good morals underneath nice ide So do they hand out those literary prizes for anything now Second bad review in the same week, but I have to be honest I read this book because my boyfriend read it when he was a kid teen and he said he remembered it as awesome Well, I guess we look at things differently when we re kids.And yet I kn...Dear reader,MAGNIFICENT READ FAST PACED EXCITEMENT I don t have enough words to describe how much I enjoyed this book The genre, post apocalyptic steampunk science fiction, has made it into one of my top favourite genres it totally submerged me intoa new world Reeve introduces us into a new, strange, colourful, yet gritty world, ruled by MunicipalDarwinism town eat town world His world building was exceptional, creating an adventurous environment where cities move and eat each othe Dear reader,MAGNIFICENT READ FAST PACED EXCITEMENT I don t have enough words to describe how much I enjoyed this book The genre, post apocalyptic steampunk science fiction, has made it into one of my top favourite genres it totally submerged me intoa new world Reeve introduces us into a new, strange, colourful, yet gritty world, ruled by MunicipalDarwinism town eat town world His world building was exceptional, creating an adventurous environment where cities move and eat each other to take control of their resources and their people.The story is set into an alternate post apocalyptic era, where the Earth as we know it was destroyed by the Sixty minute war Thereafter, the survivors built cit...Za knjigu sam cuo i ranije ali kada sam saznao da ce Piter Dzekson da producira film plus trejler koji sam video me je odma zainteresovalo za ovaj serijal tako da sam morao da bacim pogled na nju Prica ima stvarno unikatni setting daleka buducnost, posle nuklearnog rata ljudi su presli da zive na pokretnim gradovima di veci jedu manje radi prezivljavanja Uvrnuto ali interesantno i zabavno Jedino sto nikada nije tacno objasnjenjo kako je krenulo sa tim i kako im se isplati.Pratimo dva lika, Za knjigu sam cuo i ranije ali kada sam saznao da ce Piter Dzekson da producira film plus trejler koji sam video me je odma zainteresovalo za ovaj serijal tako da sam morao da bacim pogled na nju Prica ima stvarno unikatni setting daleka buducnost, posle nuklearnog rata ljudi su presli da zive na pokretnim gradovima di veci jedu manje radi prezivljavanja Uvrnuto ali interesantno i zabavno Jedino sto nikada nije tacno objasnjenjo kako je krenulo sa tim i kako im se isplati.Pratimo dva lika, jedan iz grada, druga iz pustara koji moraju da se udruze da prezive Fino su prikazani, sa prednostima i manama Donose pametne odluke, glupe odluke i sve izmedju u dovoljno realnom prikazu da ih prihvatimo kao prave ljude i to je po meni najvaznije kada neko pise karaktere Naravno srecemo i druge likove...It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried out bed of the old North Sea.Man, I love that opening line it immediately raises so many questions, and weirdly reminds me of Stephen King s inimitable The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. It immediately plunges you into a chase scene with an urge to knowand see what happens.I needed something light and whimsical after my previous book, so t It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried out bed of the old North Sea.Man, I love that opening line it immediately raises so many questions, and weirdly reminds me of Stephen King s inimitable The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. It immediately plunges you into a chase scene with an urge to k...

• English
• 27 August 2017
Philip Reeve
• Paperback
• 373 pages
• 0060082097
• Philip Reeve
• Mortal Engines (The Hungry City Chronicles, #1)