DARKLING PLAIN is the final instalment in Philip Reeve's gripping quartet which includes MORTAL ENGINES, PREDATOR'S GOLD and INFERNAL DEVICES. Perfect for fans of Philip Pullman, this is a thrilling adventure story set in an inspired fantasy world, where moving cities trawl the globe.
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It's six months after the tumultuous events on Brighton, and Wren Natsworthy and her father Tom have taken to the skies in their airship, The Jenny Haniver. Wren is enjoying life as an aviatrix but Tom is troubled by matters of the heart - Hester's disappearance, and the old wound caused by Pennyroyal's bullet. Until a fluke encounter with a familiar face sets him thinking about the ruins of London and the possibility of going back...
Meanwhile the fragile truce between the Green Storm and the Traction Cities splinters and hostility breaks out again. Events are set on a collision course as things end where they began, with London...
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By Rubbah
Format:Hardcover
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 resurectted by the lost boy, fishcake.) and Hester Shaw is still missing. Tom and Wren have been travelling in the 6 months since the experiences at Brighton and are surprised when Tom sees someone he recognises from London, of which he was the only survivor. They join a mission with the son of a traction town mayor and travell back to London, to look for more survivors... I'm not going to say more than that but it is really good and lots of stuff happens. Everything flows and there is not one boring moment. It finishes with all the ends tied up and you are left satisfied, but still thinking about it long after you have put it down.
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
By RRNP
Format:Hardcover
This is the last volume of the series that began with Mortal Engines, and marks the conclusion of an epic and brilliantly told story. I think it's also the best of the four books, and one of the best books I've ever read.
Philip Reeve rights beautifully and with a light touch: there are moments of really lovely and original descriptive writing here. The characters are complex and real, and you care a lot about what happens to them.
The story is cracking: it is very fast paced, and sometimes almost too exciting. It all takes place in a supremely well created world.
The final chapters are heartbreaking. I was really sad that the book had finished, but I will remember this book for a long time, and I think it will be read with pleasure by many people in this and future generations. A genuine classic.
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Philip Reeve rights beautifully and with a light touch: there are moments of really lovely and original descriptive writing here. The characters are complex and real, and you care a lot about what happens to them.
The story is cracking: it is very fast paced, and sometimes almost too exciting. It all takes place in a supremely well created world.
The final chapters are heartbreaking. I was really sad that the book had finished, but I will remember this book for a long time, and I think it will be read with pleasure by many people in this and future generations. A genuine classic.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I just finished reading this book to my son (now twelve) last night. We read the final four chapters in one go, and by the end I could hardly keep my voice even enough to read out loud because I felt so emotional. On the whole the book was very good (as are all the books in the series) I personally found the start of the book a little slow, although maybe that was because my hopes were so high, and to be fair, my son didn't think it started out slow. Both of us agreed, however that from about half way through the pace was relentless - building up tension, excitement, and emotional attachment to so many varied and flawed but believable and lovable characters (even Pompous Pennyroyal and poor Fishcake). As other reviewers have said, the ending was so well done. A perfectly fitting conclusion to the epic Mortal Engines series. The ending is still resonating with me, so much so that it made me cry again when I was out walking my dog this afternoon, and I had to blame the wind in my eyes. The whole series is very good for reading aloud - teachers should consider it as a class read for this reason, because the language is very poetic, without ever getting in the way of the characters or the plot. I have to bow to Philip Reeve's brilliance - I don't think there's a better series for young people out there. My son and I are going to read Here lies Arthur next, although we might do a Marcus Sedgwick in between just to refresh our palattes.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Welshcake
Format:Paperback
This quartet is an amazing achievement. I was worried that the last volume wouldn't live up to the previous three, but it did. The ending was moving and clever without being sentimental or too tricksy.
There is nothing I can find to criticise about this novel. If anyone reading this review hasn't yet read the rest of the quartet - I envy you, you are in for a treat.
There is nothing I can find to criticise about this novel. If anyone reading this review hasn't yet read the rest of the quartet - I envy you, you are in for a treat.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
By Reader
Format:Hardcover
After the success of the first three books in this series, Phillip Reeve has a lot to live up to and he has managed to write the best book of the series concluding the story spectacularly. A Darkling Plain opens with Theo Ngoni flying home when he runs into some Sky Knats. The opening chapter is filled with action and leaves you on the edge of your seat urging you to read on. The book leaves you with all sorts of questions all the way through till the last few chapters where everything is wrapped up but it leaves the potential for another book....
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Physics Geek
Format:Paperback
This, as you will have gathered, is the last in the Mortal Engines quartet.
Knowing that this was the last one, made me want to go slow and savour each line of Reeves's wonderful descriptions of the flying machines, the whole new Earth that he has imagined and the feelings of all the characters.
However this book is impossible to read slowly. Each chapter leads you deeper and deeper. It demands "just one more chapter and then I will sleep... maybe" until you find yourself looking at the clock, noticing that it's 3 AM, and then you just sigh and say to yourself "look, I need to know what happens to Hester/fischcakce/wren/pennyroyal/theo/Tom".
And you DO want to know what happens to all of them. Phillip Reeve has done some magical writing and it makes you want to know what happens next, and you also know how each one of the characters feel. The end is achingly sad, and hopeful at the same time.
Of course, you can't read this one first, go and buy "mortal Engines" and read the other three before this one.
Knowing that this was the last one, made me want to go slow and savour each line of Reeves's wonderful descriptions of the flying machines, the whole new Earth that he has imagined and the feelings of all the characters.
However this book is impossible to read slowly. Each chapter leads you deeper and deeper. It demands "just one more chapter and then I will sleep... maybe" until you find yourself looking at the clock, noticing that it's 3 AM, and then you just sigh and say to yourself "look, I need to know what happens to Hester/fischcakce/wren/pennyroyal/theo/Tom".
And you DO want to know what happens to all of them. Phillip Reeve has done some magical writing and it makes you want to know what happens next, and you also know how each one of the characters feel. The end is achingly sad, and hopeful at the same time.
Of course, you can't read this one first, go and buy "mortal Engines" and read the other three before this one.
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Brilliant
Excellent book amazing characters, iv now read the complete series of books and loved them all, it was gripping, and enthralling. I couldn't put it down. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Ms. Alexandra C. Page
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A fitting ending....
For an absolutely brilliant series of dystopian novels for all ages, a clever idea of political commentary and a gripping adventure
Published 3 months ago by JKH
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read this series now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Philip Reeves books are all amazing and this one completed the job and made an epic conclusion to the quartet. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Christopher J. Parry
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A phenomenally important book
A darkling Plain is the final in the Mortal Engines Quartet and i could not be happier with it. It is twice as long as all the others, and fits into that so much. Read more
Published 18 months ago by herenseti
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Outstanding Climax to the main series
If you've followed / are following the series in order, (if not, then do start at the start as they say, no sense not to really), then you will not be disappointed here. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Mr. J. M. Haines
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One for all
I suppose this review applies to all four books in the Mortal Engines Quartet.
It's pointless coming into A Darkling Plain without having read the first three... Read more
It's pointless coming into A Darkling Plain without having read the first three... Read more
Published on 25 April 2011 by Peter
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Darkling Plain top read
This book is simply the best novel in its genre I have read in quite a while. As with the current Toy Story and Shrek movies which operate on two levels with clever visual gags... Read more
Published on 22 Aug 2010 by davyjohns
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A great series
My 11 year old son loves this series, really exciting story lines and once he started reading he couldn't stop until he had read them all
Published on 8 Aug 2010 by Bookworm
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Helps fight computer addiction . . .
The last in the series . . . amazingly my computer addicted 13 yo couldn't wait for it to arrive and spent the entire day after the post delivery reading it from cover to cover. Read more
Published on 23 July 2010 by Funforus
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my reveiw for mr B
a darkling plain is definitely a very stunningly imagined book. i'm still not sure how philip reeve ever came up with the idea which he so vividly describes. Read more
Published on 15 Jun 2009 by A. T. C. Andrews
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