Mortal Engines

Mortal Engines, Book 1

By: Philip Reeve

Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards

The epic city-eat-city adventure is now a major motion picture produced by Peter Jackson!

"A breathtaking work of imagination, Hester Shaw is a heroine for the ages. The moment we finished reading this book we knew we wanted to make it into a movie." -- Producer Peter Jackson*

"Reeve's [Mortal Engines] remains a landmark of visionary imagination." -- School Library Journal, starred review​​​Now a major motion picture produced by Peter Jackson!

London is hunting again. Emerging from its hiding place in the hills, the great Traction City is chasing a terrified little town across the wastelands. Soon London will feed.

In the attack, Tom Natsworthy is flung from the speeding city with a murderous scar-faced girl. They must run for their lives through the wreckage -- and face a terrifying new weapon that threatens the future of the world.

Beloved storyteller Philip Reeve creates a brilliant new world in the Mortal Engines series, called "phenomenal... violent and romantic, action-packed and contemplative, funny and frightening" by the Sunday Times.

©2001 Philip Reeve (P)2017 Scholastic Inc.

Good Book.

A nice easy Book, I do recommend. The Movie - I Don't recommend. Enjoyed this.

Wednesday December 16, 2020

When I watched this movie, I saw it was based on a book so I had to hear it. Of course the book is more detailed and the movie didn't show everything as written but its not that bad. This story is kinda slow in the beginning, in my opinion but it ends alright.

Fun.

Enjoyed the book well enough. The narrator did a great job at injecting personality into the characters.

Better than the movie

I really hope you are deciding to listen to this before you watch the movie. It’s by far more enjoyable and the 9 hours you spend here won’t feel like wasted time like watching the movie.

Fast paced, fun book

It really is a 4.5 but I rounded up. the narrator was good and did a great job with the different voices. the story is geared towards a YA or teen, but was still able to keep my intrest. The storyline was very interesting and I actually look forward to the film. Very original take on the future.