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An edge-of-your seat adventure set in the iconic world of Mortal Engines!Can they get out of the Frying Pan without getting into the fire?Tamzin Pook and her group of unlikely fighters-turned-friends have managed to make it out of Thorbury alive. Now with a massive, terrifying, armored, and un-dead Revenant (and its pet kitten) as one of their gang.For their next mission, Tamzin and her friends head to the city of Museion to help save it from the ferocious predator suburbs that surround it show more and keep it trapped in the mountain valley known as the Frying Pan.Here, Tamzin, Max Angmering, Oddington Doom, and Hilly Torpenhow are in for the toughest fight of their lives. But as they battle for the fate of Museion against the terrible predators that surround them, people on board Museion start to die one by one from a traitor within.They've got to figure out an escape, but every direction looks like a trap.Don't miss this epic companion to Thunder City, set in the world of the Mortal Engines quartet. show lessTags
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I think Philip Reeve's world of Mortal Engines books are getting lighter. If this was the original series, the characters would mostly be dead, not forging on like something out of Tintin.
There's a passage near the end that suggests to me that Reeve is getting fed up with the literary establishment.
It is sad that these books are not getting the uptake that they deserve. Still, I can not wait until the next one, which will no doubt contain new discoveries, new battles, and old characters.
There's a passage near the end that suggests to me that Reeve is getting fed up with the literary establishment.
It is sad that these books are not getting the uptake that they deserve. Still, I can not wait until the next one, which will no doubt contain new discoveries, new battles, and old characters.
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Philip Reeve was born in Brighton, England, and worked in a bookshop for many years before breaking out and becoming the illustrator of children's book He has also produced and directed several no-budget theater productions, and cowrote a musical, The Ministry of Biscuits. Mr. Reeve and his wife and son now live in a hamlet high above the moorland show more in Devon, England show less
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Common Knowledge
- People/Characters
- Tamzin Pook; Oddington Doom; Eve Vesperdine
- Important places
- London; Museion
- First words
- It was not Tamzin's fault.
- Quotations
- "It is called Hay-on-Wye," said Hilly, studying it through Doom's binoculars between the passing snow showers. "Its founders were the descendants of people marooned at a literary festival when the Sixty Minute War broke out. ... (show all)They called themselves the Booklords, and made it their business to collect as many books as they could. But when they motorized their town, there was not enough room for every book, so they decided that they should keep only the best ones, and destroy any that they deemed inferior or offensive. And gradually, over the years, they came to classify more and more books as offensive, until they decided that the best thing would be to destroy them all, just to be on the safe side. That pale smoke from the chimneys amidships is probably from the furnaces where they burning the contents of a library they have lately captured. That is what will become of all of Museion's books and manuscripts if they catch us."
There was nothing to be done but run, and pray that no other predator appeared to bar the way. The engines were almost as full capacity again, and kept Museion well ahead. But from then on, whenever anyone looked back from the stern, Hay was lumbering along in Museion's wake, sometimes just a smudge upon the snowfields, sometimes close enough that the sharp-eyed observers could read the slogan "Be Kind" painted in rainbow colors on its jaws.
(42: As If I Were Never Here at All) - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And, outside, the Fire's Astonishment soared higher, up through the sunlight, past the crowded observation decks where bunting had been strung and hand-painted banners read LONDON WELCOMES MUSEION, until, somewhere over Circle Park, the north wind met her, and bore her away toward the warm south, and the promise of new adventures.
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