#1 - #1 First online review - Mortal Engines

As this is my first online review, ill try to go easy and not rewrite the entire book. :p

Ill begin with a series I just started about a week ago called "The Hungry City Chronicles" It consists of 4 released books as ordered: "Mortal Engines", "Predator's Gold", "Infernal Devices", and "A Darkling Plain". Right now, I'm on the fourth and final book, "A Darkling Plain".

Now this is going to look like a summary, but this is my idea of a review. :)

Lets start with "Mortal Engines".

As the book begins, Tom Natsworthy(London’s 3rd class apprentice historian) is having another normal day in a museum when suddenly he hears London turn on its auxiliary engines. :D He learns later that London has found another city on the "Hunting grounds", and it is 'chasing' the city over a barren landscape.

-The reader finally finds out that the cities actually have caterpillar tracks and/or wheels that the city can move on like a really big car.

As they eventually catch the city and the inhabitants are escorted out of the 'gut', one of them tries to assassinate Thaddeus Valentine. Tom blocks the blow and they are chased through out the city when finally she jumps out of a trash chute and falls into the out country and not knowing it, Valentine 'pushed' Tom and inevitable fell with her. When they try to catch London, they come upon many cities that they spend their nights in, but eventually, they get hold of an airship piloted by Anna Fang. Finally, when they do reach London, they find out that the great city has gotten hold of an ancient weapon called MEDUSA left over from the Sixty-Minute war. When the plans of London are released, Hester Shaw and Tom Natsworthy must stop London before they destroy what’s left on the barren earth.

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See, I said it would look like a summary, well, it is a summary; but heres the review part.

From the beginning of the book to the end, I couldn’t wait to turn the page and find out what happens next. Each line had me at the edge of my seat just grasping me till the very end. When I finished the book, I couldn’t wait to get the next one. Great book Phillip Reeve, I cant wait to read more. :D