Hi my name's Joe. Well, i suppose that's kinda obvious from the title! Anyway, as you can see from the top, my mum (i'm Tilly's bro) doesn't want sci-fi stuff. Well, she's gonna kill me but this book is sci-fi!!!
It's about a third rate museum curator's apprentice called Tom in the far, far, far future. Every land is barren except for a few little patches. Tom lives in London which can now move as it is built on traction wheels, like many other cities in the world. The planet has been pressured into Municipal Darwinism. This means that the bigger cities eat smaller cities. By eat I mean they salvage the metal and museums and such that there might be in the city/town/villiage.
Anyway, one day a mysterious girl comes to town and everything takes a sinister twist. Tom finds out things about his life that surprise and sicken him. He faces near death experiences, conspiracy theories and secrets that shake the very fibre of his being.
It is an amazing book and i am reading the second book in the four part series. Philip Reeve (the author) is an amazing writer and creates characters you can really relate to.
My question to stimulate discussion is: is Mortal Engines better than Northern Lights (Golden Compass)?
NEXT WEEK: I do a review on Skulduggery Pleasant.
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Danny Clemens
I really enjoyed Mortal Engines but I think Northern Lights is a better book. the thing about it is that everything seems so normal. Its full of witches and armoured bears and flying machines and ambaric power and other magical things but it all makes such good sesne you you just think its normal. Thats why i think its so good, coz it makes a magic world thats really real and believable you don't even notice its magic. Can't wait for th next film to come out!
Yup totally felling your comment there! Northan Lights is in another group altogether. Mortal Engines is more on one persons struggle to give up all he believes in and has believed in all his life; whereas Northern Lights is more a book on someone who wants to be part of something they dont yet understand. First movie was great but the next one will be way better with ghosts and other magical beings like that!!! Thanks for your brill comment.
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Joe Davies
Joe, Don't be taken in!!! Nortern Lights does suffer from far too many flaws despite its essential brilliance. What it does lack is the humour and compassion that underwrites all of the Mortal Engines Quartet. I'm convinced that, by the time you complete A Darkling Plain, you'll agree that Reeve's is the better sequence. After all, The Amber Spyglass is a bit, well, ...pants!
Thanks for your input and you are right! As i've read on in the book i've got more in to it than i did Northern Lights. I've not read the Amber Spyglass but have heard from others that it is a brill book, but i'll take your advice there. Thanks for the comment!
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Joe Davies
George
It's a good book- I really like it because it keeps you in suspense as you never know what will happen next!
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