More Mortal Engines!

This week I have listened to 2 audiobooks and one of the was really long.  This week I listened to…

1. Infernal Devices by Philip Reeve

2. A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeve

This is what I thought about each book.

Infernal Devices by Philip Reeve

This books is another action packed book, focusing on Wren who is the daughter of Hester and Tom.Wren meets some lost boys and goes on a mission to get a book that is made of metal to give to them and decides to go on an adventure with them and become somewhat of a lost girl herself.Wren soon becomes separated from them and gets sold into slavery where she eventually meets up with Pennyroyal. Pennyroayl wrote a book called Predator's Gold here he says a bunch of lies regarding Hester and how she sold the Anchorage to the Huntsman to get Tom back and that Anchorage is no longer a city.Pennyroyal needs Wren's help which she does give him but at the end of the day, she does have to confront him about the lies in which he wrote but Wren does need to come to terms with the fact that her mom really did sell Anchorage to the huntsman.Tom and Hester eventually do get Wren back but there is a surprise visitor at the end of the book that does take Hester kidnapped.

A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeve

is book is really well done, we are following 2 different story lines of Tom and Wren and Hester and Theo.Tom and Wren find out that London did not implode with the Medusa and that the people of London who did survive are making her into a floating city in which they get a ride on where they end up meeting up with Hester and Theo.Hester and Theo end up meeting up with Pennyroyals whose lies do eventually come out and that they are fully being as lies. Pennyroyal does eventually get what is coming to him at the end of the day.There is a character of the Nightstocker which is the mechanical embodiment of Fang who ends up telling stories to the new generation of kids regarding what the rolling cities were actually in days past, what a mortal engine was really. Tom is injured still from the injury that Pennyroyal gave me and ends up passing out and Hester stays with him while Wren leaves on the floating city of London.Tom and Hester do survive on their own but are creating a new life for themselves and Wren is becoming her own woman and could care less about her parents especially after what her mother has done in the past.The book ends with Wren writing a letter that does really tie everything up all together.

The Mortal Engines series is now officially done but there is a companion book about Fang and the Jenny Havier in which I plan to listen to as well which I think is going to be worth it at the end of the day!

Until next week, happy reading everyone and we will see you on the next Dippit!