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A review by stenaros
Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve
3.0
Read for Mock Printz.
Set in a steampunk-inspired future London this follows the journey of Fever Crumb, an orphan found and raised by the order of Engineers. They have raised her in their rational ways, so she is not your ordinary fourteen year old.
The writing was great in that I could see future London quite clearly and follow along as Fever makes her way from the orderly world of the Engineers into the household of an "archeologist." Her rational responses to the children in the household were amusing and I was quite delighted to see that in this future the word "blog" has emerged as a swear word.
Overall, a well done "finding ones identity" sort of novel with a lot of fun details thrown in.
ps. Fever Crumb, as pictured on the cover looks remarkably like Natalie Portman.
Set in a steampunk-inspired future London this follows the journey of Fever Crumb, an orphan found and raised by the order of Engineers. They have raised her in their rational ways, so she is not your ordinary fourteen year old.
The writing was great in that I could see future London quite clearly and follow along as Fever makes her way from the orderly world of the Engineers into the household of an "archeologist." Her rational responses to the children in the household were amusing and I was quite delighted to see that in this future the word "blog" has emerged as a swear word.
Overall, a well done "finding ones identity" sort of novel with a lot of fun details thrown in.
ps. Fever Crumb, as pictured on the cover looks remarkably like Natalie Portman.