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A brilliantly imagined world, told with Reeve's distinctive verve. --Top Pick Children's Bookseller
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In a faraway corner of a ruined world, a mysterious boy is building a flying machine. Birds help him, and so does a beautiful, brilliant, half-human engineer called Fever Crumb. But powerful enemies stalk them - either to possess their revolutionary invention, or to destroy the secrets of flight forever The breathtaking new story from the awesome world of MORTAL ENGINES. Award-winning writer Philip Reeve creates an extraordinary new city of moving buildings and human birds in a classic novel that is sure to thrill fans young and old.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I started to read the first Mortal Engines Quartet when I was about 14/15 and at the time I thought it was brilliant- the quartet was easily my favourite story. Now Fever Crumb and A Web of Air have arrived I'm extremely pleased and after reading them I'm not disappointed, the story's just as good if not more intriguing than the first four now its being revealed how the cities began to move. The setting of A Web of Air- the city of Mayda- is a great place just to read about and picture in the mind, the main character Fever Crumb has become a much more engaging character since the last story and the machine Arlo builds is brilliant. The story is rich and beautiful and thoroughly enjoyable- highly recommended!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Seeing as Philip Reeve is my favourite author by far, it is doubly difficult to then give the following review, as there are problems with this book.
A Web of Air is the follow up / on to Fever Crumb. Fever is the young and rather prim engineer living in a post apocalyptic but recovering world, where whatever cities there are are somewhat fortified although there are many other towns and ports thriving once again. Away from these, many families and small somewhat peripatetic, even nomadic communities travel the earth on land barges or sail the sea on vessels we would recognise still today.
With Fever at the centre as usual, the story continues to let us in on sinister developments concerning Traction cities, and sinister machines, some with an organic base, all acting as a prelude to the very very superior original Mortal Engines quartet (and of course, the first Fever Crumb offering). But - this is a poor offering.
I suppose the plot taken in isolation is fine - young Fever choosing to take leave of her guardians of sorts and latent employers, while they take their land barge to other towns to offer up their thespianic efforts to a new audience, while Fever decides to stay and enquire of a hermitical and mildly feared young aero-inventor. But the story is brought to the reader in a way which suggests, and I find this hard to dwell on, that the author did not put his heart and soul into the manuscript. There is far too much narrative when looking at it from the old show not tell stakes, there is an overall lack of the usual sharpness and wit, and at times the characters suddenly go into a sort of Enid Blyton with comic menace routine; it would not have surprised me in the least if they had turned out to be Fedorad and moustachioed gold smugglers from the Argentine, with only a snot kid called Jeffery and four others and a dog barring their way to wealth and world domination.
Finally, Mr Reeve's classic 'All is not well that doesn't end well' signature, which usually leaves the reader ironically satisfied, on this occasion irks due to its uncharacteristic thinnness. Due to these problems, all I think A Web of Air merits is 2 stars rather than the full monty all others in the main and sub series all thoroughly deserve.
Come on Philly Babes, you are loads better than this; let's hope book 3 of Fever is a million times better.
A Web of Air is the follow up / on to Fever Crumb. Fever is the young and rather prim engineer living in a post apocalyptic but recovering world, where whatever cities there are are somewhat fortified although there are many other towns and ports thriving once again. Away from these, many families and small somewhat peripatetic, even nomadic communities travel the earth on land barges or sail the sea on vessels we would recognise still today.
With Fever at the centre as usual, the story continues to let us in on sinister developments concerning Traction cities, and sinister machines, some with an organic base, all acting as a prelude to the very very superior original Mortal Engines quartet (and of course, the first Fever Crumb offering). But - this is a poor offering.
I suppose the plot taken in isolation is fine - young Fever choosing to take leave of her guardians of sorts and latent employers, while they take their land barge to other towns to offer up their thespianic efforts to a new audience, while Fever decides to stay and enquire of a hermitical and mildly feared young aero-inventor. But the story is brought to the reader in a way which suggests, and I find this hard to dwell on, that the author did not put his heart and soul into the manuscript. There is far too much narrative when looking at it from the old show not tell stakes, there is an overall lack of the usual sharpness and wit, and at times the characters suddenly go into a sort of Enid Blyton with comic menace routine; it would not have surprised me in the least if they had turned out to be Fedorad and moustachioed gold smugglers from the Argentine, with only a snot kid called Jeffery and four others and a dog barring their way to wealth and world domination.
Finally, Mr Reeve's classic 'All is not well that doesn't end well' signature, which usually leaves the reader ironically satisfied, on this occasion irks due to its uncharacteristic thinnness. Due to these problems, all I think A Web of Air merits is 2 stars rather than the full monty all others in the main and sub series all thoroughly deserve.
Come on Philly Babes, you are loads better than this; let's hope book 3 of Fever is a million times better.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Web of Air has to be a amazing book
but you have to have read the mortal engines series to understand what it is about.
philip reeve books are the best books i have ever read.
you will injoy it at any age!
but you have to have read the mortal engines series to understand what it is about.
philip reeve books are the best books i have ever read.
you will injoy it at any age!
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Excellent
All of Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines books are great, and I found this to be a series high-point. Fever is such a great, conflicted, fascinating protagonist and her bitter-sweet... Read more
Published 2 months ago by P. R. Hughes
A Carnegie winner ?
This book is basically a ho-hum adventure story set in the future where apparently a war has destroyed all technological knowledge. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Opera enthusiast
Secrets of the flying machine
The Downsizing left knowledge and technology hopelessly crippled -- including the complete loss of flight technology.
So guess what "A Web of Air" is all about! Read more
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Published 3 months ago by E. A Solinas
An intriguing next step in this series of books
Having discovered, read and enjoyed "Fever Crumb" I had to get and read this next instalment immediately; I was not disappointed! Read more
Published 7 months ago by Jack M
A must buy for any Mortal Engines fan!
As an avid fan of the original series, I was worried that they would spoil it with the prequels. However A Web of Air stays true to the originals and is as exciting and thrilling... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Philip
Poor Compared to Other Mortal Engines Titles
It really didn't work for me at all; the superb world and fairly grim themes that made the original four shine simply didn't exist in this at all. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Drilbain
Simply the Best
Philip Reeve goes from strength to strength. Despite being one of the most humble writers I have ever met at book festivals he manages to create a world with incredible depth and... Read more
Published 20 months ago by G MANNING
Fantastic. Highly recommended.
This book is an absolutely fantastic, fun read and I can't think of anyone over 10 I wouldn't recommend it to unless they don't like religion being questioned. Read more
Published 21 months ago by debbie8355
Not a breathtaking story -- not an awesome world
I didn't make it through this book. It starts off with some kind of deformed, hissing large birds that are called "angels", and this didn't endear me from the start. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Dr. K. E. Patrick
Great read, can't wait to get the series ...
This is the first time I've read anything by Philip Reeve but it certainly won't be the last! Although its marketed at teenagers this is another book that can be enjoyed by adults... Read more
Published 22 months ago by MJ King
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