A review by tsharris
Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld

5.0

Read out loud to my six-year-old. He loved this book -- and the series -- so much. I really would recommend this book to anyone trying to encourage a love of history and geography. This book, set mainly in Ottoman Istanbul, really brings to life the reality of Ottoman Turkey and shows World War I beyond the western front. All the fun of a Victorian-era adventure story with excellent steampunk and alternate history elements and a twenty-first-century sensibility.