Behemoth (Leviathan, #2)

Posted on 04 October 2018 by Scott Westerfeld

The behemoth is the fiercest creature in the British navy It can swallow enemy battleships with one bite The Darwinists will need it, now that they are at war with the Clanker powers.Deryn is a girl posing as a boy in the British Air Service, and Alek is the heir to an empire posing as a commoner Finally together aboard the airship Leviathan, they hope to bring the war to a halt But when disaster strikes the Leviathan s peacekeeping mission, they find themselves alone and hunted in enemy territory Alek and Deryn will need great skill, new allies, and brave hearts to face what s ahead. Free Download eBook Behemoth (Leviathan, #2) by Scott Westerfeld – kino-fada.fr YA fanaticsScott Westerfeld got it very, very right in this smart, slickly crafted re imagining of World War I There are a host of inventive creations in this book full of nicely done, but I want to run the highlighter over the two primary world building concepts i.e., The Clankers and the Darwinists because they really struck me as swelling with genius, and their engorgement was made all thepronounced by the art, which is impeccableness itself First, the DARWINISTS So in this a YA fanaticsScott Westerfeld got it ...review buffet A Review in the Classic StyleBehemoth is the second book in Westerfeld s steampunk adventure series for the little ones It continues at breakneck pace, following its plucky young protagonists as they hurtle through misadventure, politics, and just the teensiest bit of lovelorn longing, all taking place in an alternate World War I era Ottoman Empire vividly and vibrantly depicted as a near ideal melting pot of cultures All of the tropes of steampunk remain firmly in place Overa review buffet A Review in the Classic StyleBehemoth is the second book in Westerfeld s steampunk adventure series for the little ones It continues at breakneck pace, following its plucky young protagonists as they hurtle ...This seriesGod damn, this series.I want to go sing its praises across campus, to haul people down to the library and shove copies of Leviathan into their hands, to wander the country like a modern day Johnny Appleseed scattering lovely books wherever I go.Okay, not so much that last one But you get my point.But anyhow I was quite content with the first book, but I m elated about this one It s one of those fabulous novels in which it s not just the characters who mature and grow as all cha This seriesGod damn, this series.I want to go sing its praises across campus, to haul people down to the library and shove copies of Leviathan into their hands, to wander the country like a modern day Johnny Appleseed scattering lovely books wherever I go.Okay, not so much that last one But you get my point.But anyhow I was quite content with the first book, but I m elated about this one It s one of those fabulous novels in which it s not just the characters who mature and grow as all ch...A delightful sequel to the author s Leviathan , an alternative history fantasy that pits the machine oriented Clankers Germans and Austro Hungarian Empire against biotechnology dominated forces of the Darwinists Brits and French Our teen heroes are Deryn, a girl posing as a boy Dylan to serve as a midshipman aboard the British bio airship dirigible, and Alek, son of the assassinated Serbian Archduke Ferdinand, on the run from the Germans who engineered the murder in this version of histo A delightful sequel to the author s Leviathan , an alternative history fantasy that pits the machine oriented Clankers Germans and Austro Hungarian Empire against biotechnology dominated forces of the Darwinists Brits and French Our t...Please Note This review will contain mild spoilers for Leviathan so if you know want to know zilch avert your eyes pleaseDo I look like a ninny she asked Alek You do indeed, Mr Sharp Initial Final Page Thoughts.I m not supposed to be buying anybooks until after Christmas bites nails but this series is just too good It would be a crime ...DERYN grumbles to self about how stupid girls are who are pretending to be boys and don t tell the guy they love that they re actually not a guy when they have a chance to because he s telling her about how a girl seems to have a crush on herI think Bovril counts as an excuse to add a book to my talking cats shelf Also, I am going to try to add some images to my review for the vewy first time, so please bear with meBehemoth was even better than Leviathan Why 1 First up, Alek is my fave still He was a little less pathetic in this book than the first, which was good and bad Good because he was taking charge of his life in a way that made me want to...YA steampunk I finally figured out the name of this genre is engaging We see Istanbul get quite a bit of notice here Even though I can t remember hearing too much about Istanbul in history I think it fit pretty well Most authors I think pick places like Germany, France, and Great Britain as the setting in their books for the WWI era but Istanbul is a place I ve neither seen nor heard much about I knew it was in Turkey shrug And even if Westerfeld changed some of the history so to speak YA steampunk I finally figured out the name of this genre is engaging We see Istanbul get quite a bit of notice here Even though I can t remember hearing too much about Istanbul in history I think it fit pretty well Most authors I think pick places like Germany, France, and Great Britain as the setting in their books for the WWI era but Istanbul is a place I ve neither seen nor heard much about I knew it was in Turkey shrug And even if Westerfeld changed some of the history so to speak I think he tried to keep the cul...Sigh, problemi iz pro le knjige su preneti i ovamo slabi karakteri koji se i dalje vi e pona aju kao idioti u svojim akcijama i razmi ljanju Onda imamao pri u koja jeste zanimljiva ali dosta naivna i brzo i likovi lako pre ivljavaju sve probleme Sa druge strane sam svet je i dalje fenomenalan, art u knjizi je isto odli an i atmosferu koju stvaraju je takva da vas prosto dr i prikovanom da itate I sam stil je lak za itanje, radnja se fino prati, akcija je odli no opisana.Sve u svemu bil Sigh, problemi iz pro le knjige su preneti i ovamo slabi karakteri koji se i dalje vi e pona aju kao idioti u svojim akcijama i razmi ljanju Onda imamao pri u koja jeste zanimljiva ali dosta naivna i br...3 starsThis is another fun, fast paced adventure with Deryn and Aleksandr in the futuristic alternate World War I history first introduced in Leviathan I enjoyed this story just as much as the first installment I think that my slight lessening of enthusiasm might actually relate to this book s heavy focus on the Clankers and their technological marvels I found the Darwinists farinteresting luckily it seems like the next book is heading into Darwinist Japan Darwinists and Japan Yay 3 starsThis is another fun, fast paced adventure with Deryn and Aleksandr in the futuristic alternate World War I history first introduced in Leviathan I enjoyed this story just as much as the first installment I think that my slight lessening of enthusiasm might actually relate to this book s heavy focus on the Clankers and their technological marvels I found the Darwinists farinteresting luckily it seems like the next book is heading into Darwinist Japan Darwinists and Japan Yay.Once again, it was probably my extreme love of the characters that kept me reading Deryn is officially one of my favorite girl dressed as boy heroes And believe me, I ve read quite a lot in that area She succeeds so immensely in that role b...

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04 October 2018

Scott Westerfeld