A review by alex_watkins
Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld

3.0

A solid follow up to Leviathan, Behemoth picks up where the last book left off, which after a year or so can be hard to remember. The introduction of the Ottoman technology was really interesting, and when you read the afterward you can realize how much of the story is based on actual history. It was mostly things I didn't know at all about how the Ottoman empire entered the war on the side of the Germans. Through the work of our young protagonists the actual fate of the Ottoman empire is changed radically in the book's universe, it will be interesting to see what ripple effects this will have in the rest of the series. We got less of the Darwinist creations in this book, as it focused mostly on the ottoman animal like machines. The "beasties" are my favorite part of the faux-technology, because they are the most original, the tech stuff has been done before, but Westerfeld has been really creative in thinking up his animal hybrids that have become weapons, I'd like to see more.