The Fever Crumb Trilogy Fever Crumb (the Fever Crumb Trilogy, Book 1) (Audio Library Edition): Volume 1, Book 01, (Audiobook)

from ahalliday1949

Read this book as one of the Carnegie shortlist as Thurrock library service is shadowing again this year. Loved it. I read Mortal Engines several years ago and remembered little about it but that doesn't affect enjoyment of this book. Hope the rest of the shortlist is as good.

from quondame

This young adult novel set millennia after the Downsizing in the London of a steampunk ice age still retaining more recognizable place names than we have of Roman Britain. B@tersea? really? There is humor and some interesting characters and a bit too much in the way of challenges for our young he...

from lillibrary

Orphan Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age 14 she leaves her sheltered world to work for archaeologist Kit Solent on a discovery that has startling relevence to her past. Futuristic society where...

from resugo

My favorite aspect of this world Reeve created was that it was the future after some great plague and the people are using old technology that they don't understand anymore. But that technology is beyond what we have now. I also loved the slang that had evolved (googling meant looking for someone...

from DLMorrese

Despite some aspects of the setting that strained credulity and a couple cases of characters doing things I saw as being out of character, this is an enjoyable YA adventure. In addition to having a likable protagonist and an interesting story, it provides some fairly insightful observations of hu...