bibliopenguin (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
bibliopenguin) wrote2012-01-05 02:02 pm
bibliopenguin) wrote2012-01-05 02:02 pm
Entry tags:
Fever Crumb Book 1: Fever Crumb - Philip Reeve
Title: Fever Crumb
Author: Philip Reeve
Series: 1st book, Fever Crumb quartet
Categories: YA, dystopia, future, technology, coming of age
Notes: appropriate for younger readers of advanced reading skills
Other works by Philip Reeve: The Mortal Engines Quartet (Hungry City Chronicles)
Philip Reeve packs so much into what seems like too few pages to hold all of the characters and events that unfold in the first volume of his new series. Set in the same world as his Mortal Engines quartet, in a distant future London.
Fever Crumb is a foundling girl raised by the super-rational Order of Engineers. She ventures into the wider world in the employment of archaeologist Kit Solent. As she is confronted with the irrational world outside of the Order, her confusion is compounded by strange memories that could not possibly be her own. Where did these memories come from? Who is she really, and why did her parents abandon her?
Fever is a different sort of female hero, but she doesn’t disappoint, and neither does Philip Reeve. Reeve's writing is perfectly suited to the world he has created, but (like a good storyteller) the skill and artistry of his writing does not distract from the story he is telling. I love the way he envisions how culture will evolve in a post-Apocalyptic world where so much technology and history has been lost. Staples of our own culture have been twisted and confused as they filtered through time to Fever's world. I also felt for Fever as she navigates her own turbulent emotions and problems with her rational mindset and engineer training. She finds herself assaulted with irrational emotions and situations--both her own and those of the people around her--and her upbringing among the Order of the Engineers has hardly prepared her to deal with them. At first I was worried that I wouldn't like Fever or be invested in her, but she is actually quite endearing.
As soon as I finished Fever Crumb, I immediately snatched up the second book (A Web of Air). I cannot wait for the last two books to be available. A Web of Air was not in any way a letdown or disappointment, it pulled me even further into Fever's world.
I cannot say enough good things about this series. Why are you still here reading this? GO GET IT!
Note: The audio for this book (though not A Web of Air) is read by the author himself.
Author: Philip Reeve
Series: 1st book, Fever Crumb quartet
Categories: YA, dystopia, future, technology, coming of age
Notes: appropriate for younger readers of advanced reading skills
Other works by Philip Reeve: The Mortal Engines Quartet (Hungry City Chronicles)
Philip Reeve packs so much into what seems like too few pages to hold all of the characters and events that unfold in the first volume of his new series. Set in the same world as his Mortal Engines quartet, in a distant future London.
Fever Crumb is a foundling girl raised by the super-rational Order of Engineers. She ventures into the wider world in the employment of archaeologist Kit Solent. As she is confronted with the irrational world outside of the Order, her confusion is compounded by strange memories that could not possibly be her own. Where did these memories come from? Who is she really, and why did her parents abandon her?
Fever is a different sort of female hero, but she doesn’t disappoint, and neither does Philip Reeve. Reeve's writing is perfectly suited to the world he has created, but (like a good storyteller) the skill and artistry of his writing does not distract from the story he is telling. I love the way he envisions how culture will evolve in a post-Apocalyptic world where so much technology and history has been lost. Staples of our own culture have been twisted and confused as they filtered through time to Fever's world. I also felt for Fever as she navigates her own turbulent emotions and problems with her rational mindset and engineer training. She finds herself assaulted with irrational emotions and situations--both her own and those of the people around her--and her upbringing among the Order of the Engineers has hardly prepared her to deal with them. At first I was worried that I wouldn't like Fever or be invested in her, but she is actually quite endearing.
As soon as I finished Fever Crumb, I immediately snatched up the second book (A Web of Air). I cannot wait for the last two books to be available. A Web of Air was not in any way a letdown or disappointment, it pulled me even further into Fever's world.
I cannot say enough good things about this series. Why are you still here reading this? GO GET IT!
Note: The audio for this book (though not A Web of Air) is read by the author himself.