A review by luffy79
Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve

2.0

So this is this steampunk of which they mention...this is a new genre for me. I was delighted, at the beginning with the ease, the fluency, and intuitiveness of the words. I thought we have here a winner. But this type of book needed a few strong twists. Instead, we get predictable plots, lazy devices which are excuses for shifting this and that character around without much invention(no pun). I have the two sequels of this trilogy ready to be read. But this book relied too much on a parables like preach. The book supports themes. Like childhood, innocence, coming of age, responsibility, history, legacy, genetics etc. For this book to turn on its head(again, no pun), it had to be just a bunch of original and exciting things that simply happened. Instead, it's not.