A review by pkadams
Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve

3.0

Another dystopic novel this time set in a futuristic London where society has broken down to the point of the reemergence of medieval times with some old tech still be salvaged and used. Think Mad Max meet Brother Cadfael. Fever Crumb is a 14 year old girl raised by the Order of Engineers a monk-like group looking for knowledge and reason within the crumbling world of London. Fever Crumb as an archaeological assistant comes face-to-face with the prejudice, half truths, and secrets of the world of the Scriveners, the super humans that use to rule London. Although the book was touted as a fast-paced novel, I found parts of it slow and laborious. This future was rather depressing and just a bit too off-putting for me to find the story interesting enough to be fully absorbed.