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A review by telltalepage
Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld
4.5
This book takes place pretty much right after Leviathan, which is great. I'm not a big fan of large time jumps between novels. There's just as much adventure and excitement as the first, though now we move into a world where there are more Clankers than Darwinists...more machines than fabricated animals! It's quite a change, and like Leviathan showed Alek being out of his comfort zone on the airship, Behemoth showed Deryn out of her comfort zone being in a world of machines.
It did not feel like a second book slump, and really pulled in some super intriguing plot movements and settings. The only thing that really bugged me was Alek's dumb little misogynistic thoughts toward women in this book. Usually those things don't irk me so badly, especially when writing during a time period such as this, but for some reason it really made me suddenly not like the kid nearly as much as I used to. Hopefully he'll finally learn some things in the third and final book to bring Goliath's rating up to a 5!
It did not feel like a second book slump, and really pulled in some super intriguing plot movements and settings. The only thing that really bugged me was Alek's dumb little misogynistic thoughts toward women in this book. Usually those things don't irk me so badly, especially when writing during a time period such as this, but for some reason it really made me suddenly not like the kid nearly as much as I used to. Hopefully he'll finally learn some things in the third and final book to bring Goliath's rating up to a 5!