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This week I have finished reading the Fever Crumb series by Philip Reeve and I have started to read The City of Ember series by Jeanne DuPrau. This week I have read… 1. A Web of Air by Philip Reeve 2. Scrivener’s Moon by Philip Reeve This is what I thought of each book A Web of Air by Philip Reeve This book starts 2 years after the first one and it has Fever doing the lights for the Rolling Stones, the traveling theater troupe. They stop at the city of Mayda where they stay f