Publisher: Simon Pulse Pages: 440 Format: Epub Rating: A few years ago, a friend of mine talked about a sub-genre of sci-fi in which the humanity could use steam power to create unbelievable and futuristic machines. The genre was called steampunk. Although I’ve always quite been into sci-fi, I had never had the opportunity to read a sample of this genre, until I found out Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan series and got quite intrigued.
The day of the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which leads to the beginning of the WWI, Prince Aleksander, Archduke’s son, escapes from his palace to avoid the Germans to capture him. In the United Kingdom, Deryn, a fifteen-year-old girl, defies the rules and, camouflaged as a boy, gets accepted into the British Air Force. Although these happenings seem separated and disconnected, Aleksander and Deryn’s paths come together, and they will have to fight for their lives in a conflict of huge dimension. Scott Westerfeld intertwines history and imaginative facts to create a world in which science rules the entire world. The Darwinists – United Kingdom – base their scientific development on genetic. They created new species of animal and combined them with the steam power machines. The result is the creation of huge, jaw-dropping animals empowered by steam engines. The Clankers – Germans and continental forces – exploit the steam power to build deathly and effective war machines, and transports. The world the author ideated is fascinating and brilliant. The writing style is engaging and runs smoothly. The story immediately catches readers’ attention and leads them to unpredictable twists and unforeseeable revelations. ‘Leviathan’ is the first book of the same name trilogy. ‘Behemoth’ and ‘Goliath’ respectively follow as the second and third volume.
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