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A review by elllie
Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve
5.0
Fantastic read! I saw this book on a Mock Printz Award list, which is how I ended up reading it. This is probably one of the best books I've read in a while. It's dystopian/science fiction but isn't trying to follow any of the current YA trends. The story is well-crafted and fast-moving, good for 7th grade and up, boys or girls. Definitely a Hunger Games/Maze Runner/Graceling read-alike. I just love books with really, really strong female characters, which Fever definitely is.
In the far-distant future, fourteen-year-old Fever Crumb was found as a baby and is raised by the perfectly logical Engineers, even though she's a girl (it is well-known that women just aren't reasonable, so they're never allowed to join the Engineers, but they figure that since Fever is just a baby when she is found, she can be raised to be logical). Specially requested for an assignment, Fever leaves Dr. Crumb, her life-long Engineer guardian, and ventures into London where she tries to help Dr. Kit Solent make a discovery that could change the world they live in forever.
One of my favorite part about this book were the glimpses of humor. The author perfectly included modern things as ancient technology and culture that readers are sure to recognize (my favorite was the religious procession for an ancient prophet, where the people were chanting "Hari, Hari! Hari Potter!"). It's easy to over-do this, but I think Reeve did it perfectly.
In the far-distant future, fourteen-year-old Fever Crumb was found as a baby and is raised by the perfectly logical Engineers, even though she's a girl (it is well-known that women just aren't reasonable, so they're never allowed to join the Engineers, but they figure that since Fever is just a baby when she is found, she can be raised to be logical). Specially requested for an assignment, Fever leaves Dr. Crumb, her life-long Engineer guardian, and ventures into London where she tries to help Dr. Kit Solent make a discovery that could change the world they live in forever.
One of my favorite part about this book were the glimpses of humor. The author perfectly included modern things as ancient technology and culture that readers are sure to recognize (my favorite was the religious procession for an ancient prophet, where the people were chanting "Hari, Hari! Hari Potter!"). It's easy to over-do this, but I think Reeve did it perfectly.