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A review by timburbage
Scrivener's Moon by Philip Reeve
5.0
So this is the finale to the Fever Crumb prequel trilogy, and it is fantastic.
We spend a lot of time in the Northern Wastes, and Fever finds out a lot more about the world. The pyramid is really interesting, and Cluny is one of my favourite side characters.
London finally gets moving, and Dr Crumb becomes an almost-villain as he takes hte logic of the Engineers to the next level. Charley Shallow is a great antagonist, as his selfish goals always take precedent over the greater good, but he isn't unrealistically evil.
We are in a war, and the battle lines are shifting and changing, but we are always focussing on Fever and her friends.
In terms of the trilogy as a whole, this finale shows how pointless the second book was. We never see any of those characters again, and Arlo only gets mentioned a handful of times. It was a sidequest, and I think you can almost miss it completely. The easter eggs didn't lead anywhere and were superfluous. This was my favourite of this trilogy, and this one felt much more like Mortal Engines.
Overall, I really liked this trilogy, but the Mortal Engines Quartet is still up there for one of my favourite series of all time.
We spend a lot of time in the Northern Wastes, and Fever finds out a lot more about the world. The pyramid is really interesting, and Cluny is one of my favourite side characters.
London finally gets moving, and Dr Crumb becomes an almost-villain as he takes hte logic of the Engineers to the next level. Charley Shallow is a great antagonist, as his selfish goals always take precedent over the greater good, but he isn't unrealistically evil.
We are in a war, and the battle lines are shifting and changing, but we are always focussing on Fever and her friends.
In terms of the trilogy as a whole, this finale shows how pointless the second book was. We never see any of those characters again, and Arlo only gets mentioned a handful of times. It was a sidequest, and I think you can almost miss it completely. The easter eggs didn't lead anywhere and were superfluous. This was my favourite of this trilogy, and this one felt much more like Mortal Engines.
Overall, I really liked this trilogy, but the Mortal Engines Quartet is still up there for one of my favourite series of all time.