"We Will Unleash a Storm that will Scour the Earth..."

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	• Predator's Gold Philip Reeve Scholastic Point, 2004 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 11 reviews view larger image
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Predator's Gold

Few cities are mounted on enormous traction wheels and set rolling across the arctic ice cap in search of pray. Equally few sequels are able to exceed their originals, but "Predator's Gold" does. The story opens two years after the events in "Mortal Engines", with Tom and Hester living a precarious existence as freelance air traders among the mobile cities of the North. Unbeknownst to them, other forces are at work which will soon throw their world into chaos. For the moment, though, their attention is consumed by Professor Pennyroyal, a globe-trotting adventurer with fantastic tales about his explorations across the dead continent.

Philip Reeve packs "Predator's Gold" with as many fanciful inventions and discoveries as his first novel. The characters will explore not just new cities, but underwater domains and remote islands where a vicious band of rebels plots a new world order. The creativity never stops coming throughout the book's three hundred pages, and neither do the surprises. There is literally not a single chapter that doesn't pack a wallop at the end.

But despite the fearce action and high adventure, the true treat in "Predator's Gold" is the people. Tom and Hester have been forced to grow up fast amid the extrordinary world of mobile cities, yet for all that they are still children as the novel opens, and they make childish mistakes. Two of these occur near the start, and the consequences will continue playing out for years to come. Newcomer characters are equally lifelike and important in the fate of Anchorage and other cities. Freya Rassmussen is very believable, but it's Professor Pennyroyal who takes the cake with his loudmouth antics and sometimes disgusting personal habits. Yet beneath that exterior, he has personal strength, and a role to play in the events to follow.

"Predator's Gold" is everything you could want and more from the sequel to "Mortal Engines". I would heartily recommend not only this book, but all the books in the series for anyone between the ages of ten and a hundred ten.

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Mobile Cities - A Great Way to Go On Vacation

For the life of me, I couldn't figure out what year it was supposed to be. Somewhere around the Year 5000. Way back in the 21st or 22nd Century, we had pretty much annihilated ourselves in the 60 Second War. Some centuries later, the technologically challenged offspring survivors have managed to mobilize their cities, thank Quirke (humankind's savior).

There's an orphan boy who idolizes the swashbuckling Valentine, there's an orphan girl disfigured by said Valentine, and there's a lot of big mobile cities gobbling up smaller mobile cities for their resources (Municiple Darwinism).

The books are a bit dark, kind of like Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. I'd recommend them for anyone 12 and up. There's a bit too much violence for the younger set.

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Predator's Gold ( Great Book to Read )

Great Book to Read

This book is the exciting sequel to the novel "Mortal Engines.'' Or, if you prefer, "Predator's Gold.''
Tom and Hester are off once again on the Jenny Haniver, a ship they accommodated after the death of their friend,
Anna Fang.
Their lives were in danger so they decided to settle for the time in a town called Anchorage. Seeing as how these great town moved the margravine made the choice to move the town to the dead continent of America. America had been dead for many years due to the Sixty-Minute War.
Some of the Old-Tech remains such as MEDUSA had destroyed it beyond restoration. Now, Heather embarks on a journey to revive Toms love and save the corruption of people betraying one another. And thus, begins their journey to the so-called dead continent of America.
I liked this book because it just had that sense of adventure in it that made you want to know exactly what happened next. Most of the book was rather exciting although the author could have spiced up some of the less enthusiastic parts of the book.
Reasons why I disliked the book were that one, half the book revolved around Heather and the other half was just them running away from Stalkers and predator cities.

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Nobody returns from the Sunless Country, Mr Scabious

Back from the death. With these main theme, the sequel of Mortal Engines rises up, better than before.

After the destruction of London, Tom and Hester built their own business on air. But that is before they meet Prof. Pennyroyal, the famous adventurer and writer. Everything starts to go astray and they end up at Anchorage, an almost decayed traction city ruled by a spoilt Margravine.

While Tom is dealing the ghosts on Anchorage and Hester is burned by jealousy, an extremest group tried to ressurect their dead heroine and an unknown net of information is unfolding. With Anchorage going to the Death Continent, it is 'almost' true that "Nobody returns from the Sunless Country, Mr Scabious." But a body sure can be returned... although without its soul...

Anyway, It is better to read it from Mortal Engines to grasp the whole thing. Next, Internal Devices.

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"We Will Unleash a Storm that will Scour the Earth..."

It had been a while since I'd read Philip Reeve's first installment in the "Hungry Cities" quartet, and so my memories of the events that happened in "Mortal Engines" were a little hazy. However, nothing could make me forget the imaginative post-apocalyptic world that Reeve had created, in which massive Traction-Cities trundled across the wastelands according to the laws of Municipal Darwinism; eating any smaller city that crossed their paths. There was a massive death-toll by the end of the book, in which many of the principal characters had been killed (to the point of desensitisation), but our protagonists Tom and Hester managed to ride off into the sunset in the battered old airship "Jenny Haniver".

"Predator's Gold" is set several years later, where we find that Tom and the horribly-scarred Hester are still together, taking on passengers and cargo to make a living. One such passenger is Professor Pennyroyal, a pompous explorer and adventurer with a penance for stretching the truth (think Gilderoy Lockhart) who join the couple as they flee to the Ice Wastes and are saved by the Traction City of Anchorage. The city is ruled over by the young Freya Rasmussen who makes a radical decision to return to the Dead Continent in the hopes of escaping the dual threats of both predatory Traction Cities and the Anti-Traction League.

Unbeknownst to her, her city is being discreetly ransacked by a trio of `Lost Boys' who answer to the mysterious thief-lord Uncle (who as another reviewer pointed out, deliberately bears less resemblance to the carefree boys of "Peter Pan" than to the wretches of "Oliver Twist" under the tyranny of Fagin) a man who has his own game to play in the rising tensions. But when Hester witnesses a foolish kiss between Tom and Freya she makes an equally foolish decision to betray the city. From here the action keeps rolling: escapes, intrigue, kidnapping, betrayals, battles... you name it and its here. As an adventure story, I would be hard-pressed to recommend anything more exciting than this. If you loved the adventure and atmosphere of Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy or Garth Nix's "Old Kingdom" trilogy (Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen) then Reeves's series is a must-have.

Most interesting is Reeves use of political agendas and intrigue. The world is roughly translated into two groups: the Traction Cities and the Static Communities, who are bitterly at odds. The Static communities (headed by the Anti-Traction League) despise the parasitical scavenging cities, whilst the roaming Cities are arrogantly casual about their allegiance to Darwinism and their right to any prey that comes their way. Naturally, one would expect to be on the Anti-Traction League's side (after all, the thought of consuming smaller cities sounds barbaric to our contemporary ears), and yet the fact that Tom is a citizen of a Traction City and Reeves's deliberate admiration for their roving spirit throws the whole scenario into a hefty shade of grey.

Plus, if we really analysis the situation, is there really a difference between the Traction Cities and the phenomena of the Western world's colonisation across the rest of the world (and its current insistence on globalisation)? Add to the fact that a branch of the Anti-Traction League - the Green Storm - is undoubtedly a terrorist network whose members wear "the shiny, smug expressions of people who know they are right", and the book suddenly takes on a level of depth and allusion that you would never expect in what appears to be a simple adventure story.

Neither the Traction Cities nor the Static Communities are right (in fact most of the time they are very much in the wrong), and the conflict of the book is not which side wins, but whether Tom and Hester can survive the conflict that goes on between them, living long enough to make a decent life for themselves. This is a great set of books: read them!

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The Jenny was drifting across the shoulder of a big volcano. Beyond it there were no more mountains, just an endless blue-white plain stretching to the horizon. They were at the mercy of the wind, and it was carrying them helplessly into the Ice Wastes.

After two years of carefree traveling in the Jenny Haniver, Tom and Hester find themselves back in danger. Fleeing from the grim aviators of the Green Storm, they stumble onto the ice city of Anchorage just in time. But Anchorage is not a safe refuge: Devastated by plague, and haunted by thieves -- or perhaps ghosts -- the city is barely lurching along. The savage Huntsmen of Arkangel are closing in, and the young margravine must make a last desperate bid for survival. She sets a course for the Dead Continent -- America ...

In this breathtaking sequel to the award-winning Mortal Engines, Philip Reeve plunges us into a ruthless and terrifyingly believable world where cities eat each other, betrayal is as common as the blasted land the cities traverse, and loyalty holds the only chance of survival.

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