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 just finished reading infernal devices by Philip Reeve, part three in what now looks to be a four part adventure that started with 'Mortal Engines', where we were introduced to a distant future where giant wheeled cities prowled the the hunting grounds gobbling up the smaller suburbs, and 'Predators Gold', where the two hero's: tom natsworthy and hester shaw, returned abroad their airship to face an ice city, a band of 'lost boy' burglars and a increasingly vicious war between the wheeled cities and new fanatical splinter group from the anititracton league named the the green storm... sounds complicated? ...it isn't really. the great thing about this series of books is that it is so full of amazing ideas where Reeve really explores all the possibilities in his amazingly complex imagined world but at the same time he never looses track of the story, pulling you along on a fast paced white knuckle ride ...and the twist and turns of the story really get going in this one. set sixteen years after the last adventure Tom and Hester have given up there life of adventure and have settled with the survivors of the great ice city of Anchoridge safely hidden from the rest of the vicious world on the supposedly dead continent of America. But it isn't long before some old 'friends' turn up looking for a a piece of 'old tech' from before the 60 second war and end up taking Tom and Hesters only daughter with them. As much as i loved all the non stop action, (I read this in almost one sitting), the amazing breth of ideas and the hilarious character and vehicle names (look out for the 'visible pantyline') there were a few niggles that stop me from giving this 5 out of 5: some of the coincidences in the this part were a bit beyond belief and too many people keep coming back from the dead ?!?, also had a problem with the character using the words mum, dad, mummy and daddy, don't know why, i just thought 'mother' and 'father' would sound more 'right, but who am i to say how people are going to talk in the distant future... Part three felt to me like the 'empire strikes back' of the the books i have read so far, thing don't go well for all of our heros and friends and families are split up. don't expect a happy ending but do expect to be desperate to see how it all ends... 4.5/5 bring on the final part!! posted by Loop # 6:16 pm  
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