Predator Cities #4: A Darkling Plain

from Jannes

(This is probably my longest review ever - sorry about that, I meant to keep it short and not so rambling, but it just kept spilling out.) A satisfying conclusion to a great series. A Darkling Plain is the final installment in a quadrilogy, and as such it shares the strengths and weaknesses of it...

from atreic

Wow. That was epic. I don't love them as much as His Dark Materials, but they are the first books I have read since that seem to be trying to do some of the same things. I think I don't love them as much because I don't share their morality... Will and Lyra's quest is about discovering the import...

from Winterrain

This last book in Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet is rather cynical, especially considering that its primary appeal is supposed to be to young children. That, however, is what makes it good- it's so easy to get attached to the characters, even the less than likeable ones, when when knows th...

from sarcher

While the third book, and much of the fourth, meanders down a side path with the next generation of characters (Wren/Theo), it's the resolution of the Hester/Tom storyline that makes this book work for me. I now understand the value of having a particular moment in the second book be survivable. ...

from Rubbah

This is the best out of the whole series. The second and the third had made me start to go off them and I only bought the book to complete the series. However this one was really good. The traction cities and the green storm are fighting more after stalker fang's death(who unknown to all has been...