Synopsis:

In this breathtaking sequel to his award-winning Mortal Engines, Reeve plunges readers into a ruthless and terrifyingly believable world where cities eat each other, betrayal is as common as ice, and loyalty offers the only chance for survival.

Review:

Do you know what I would love? Besides a steady income of cash as a qualified food taster? I would actually like the world to realise that as females, we are not overly emotion and think with our fucking ovaries.

There are the normal human reactions that come from being in love or suffering from serve hate, but I hate it when books clearly make woman, over fucking dramatic while the men stand around like limp noodles. Let’s be real here for at least just a second. It isn’t realistic. Men and females both suffer from emotions but this book only highlighted the downfall of females and their ‘high’ emotions while then had none. Don’t get me wrong, I have seen some females almost blow up the earth due to their emotions but at the same time I have seen men do a lot worse. Let’s like at pub brawls for a second here… how many females to you see involved in that shit? Maybe one or two compared to the tens or twenty men banging each other’s chest to win the biggest bro contest.

Kinda see where I am heading with this? Now getting back to the book, you have only two main female characters while the rest are male. So why is it only the emotions of females that cause a stir in this book? Especially when there are twenty male characters in this book that should have a brain, are fighting to survive in a dog eat dog world and need to think quick on their feet?

Sorry it kills me. And I thought it was a downfall of this book majorly. Our main lead Tom for instance, well I don’t think he has a brain, I actually think he is a robot. Actually scratch that because the robots in this book had more of an emotional state then the males. The males were literally working shells of humans, while apparently the females were left to blow everything up!!

Other than the whole female emotional bullshit, this was just another average read. It was less exciting then the Mortal Engines and the plot was done before, nothing new there.

Again I really like the world building.

But who knows as a female I just might be fucking over thinking it right???

Rating: 2/5

ISBN: 9780060721961

Publisher: Scholastic