mycouscous 's review for:

Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve

3.0

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Better than I anticipated, Fever Crumb is a dystopian steampunk adventure set in a futuristic London society. Fever Crumb is the only female engineer, who gets involved in trying to uncover a hidden chamber sealed by the city's past mutant human-like (and much maligned) ruling class. It's very dark and gruesome, with interesting technology interspersed with the drama. Crumb is an admirable heroine, devoted to so-called "rationality" yet plumbing the depths of her underused humanity and emotion. Reeve himself narrates the audiobook, lending great inflection and pacing.