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Reeve, Philip

A Darkling Plain

Reeve, Philip
Fourth book in the Mortal Engines, or whatever they call it, series. I wept at the ending. Twice.

A Flying Vehicle Name I Liked:

Belligerent Peony -- How do you pronounce that?

Words I Had To Look Up:

gubbins (pg. 455) -- Doodad: something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known.
gobbets (pg. 458) -- Bits or morsels.

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1/2011

A Web Of Air

Reeve, Philip
Second book in the Fever Crumb prequel to Mortal Engines. While traveling on the theater barge, Fever meets a fellow with scientific leanings.

Quote:

"Who are you?" they both said at the same instant.
"I've got the gun," said the stranger after a second more. "That means you have to go first."

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11/2011

Fever Crumb

Reeve, Philip
Fever is an apprentice Engineer in pre-traction London. She doesn't know who her parents are. She is sent to assist the archaeologist Kit Solvent. Several originations of people and things from the Mortal Engines series are explained here.

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3/2011

Infernal Devices

Reeve, Philip
Book three of the Mortal Engines series. I was half-way through book four when this come in at the library. And I was lost. I recommend reading them in order, and not waiting YEARS between books. Get the cast of characters from Wikipedia, too. I'm a lot of trouble remembering who is who.

Nifty Names of Flying Things:

Damn You, Gravity
Jenny Haniver (The body of a devil fish mounted to look like something magical or human.)
Bad Hair Day
Contents Under Pressure
Sword Flourished In Understandable Pique
Visible Panty Line
Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Poka-Dot Machiney
and my favorite..
Combat Wombat -- I wonder if he got that from the Hodaka motorcycle?

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1/2011

Larklight

Reeve, Philip
An oddly Victorian version of space battles, space pirates, and space spiders. Quite dashing!

Words I Had To Look Up:

Tergiversator -- hedger: a respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer. pg. 365.

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5/2007

Mortal engines

Reeve, Philip
Book 1 of the Hungry Cities Chronicles, in which Tom and Hester meet when she tries to kill Valentine. Tom gets a crush on Valentines daughter. Everybody who isnt necessary for the next book in the series dies, pretty much. Including the city of London.

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1/2007

Predators gold

Reeve, Philip
Book 2 of the Hungry Cities Chronicles, Hester and Tom end up at Anchorage, run across the Lost Boys, and battle it out with the Green Storm troops. Pretty good stuff.

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11/2006
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