Part out of this world and part historical fiction, it takes reading a fourth of this book to wrap your brain around the fantastical creatures and machines author Scott Westerfield creates. Once your head accepts these extraordinary weapons of war, Leviathan begins its fast paced ride through a continent on the brink of the First World War.
In Austria, Prince Aleksandar Ferdinand is forced to escape his own country after his parents are assassinated. He and a steadfast group of servants flee in their motorized war machine the Central Clanker Powers favor.
In England, 15 year old Deryn Sharp is trying to hide her secret from the British Royal Air Service. Girls are not allowed to join but she desperately wants to fly in the gargantuan hydrogen breathers the Darwinist Entente Allies scientifically engineer for their living, breathing “machines.”
As the opposing powers begin their collision course toward war, it pushes the two teenagers together in a nerve-racking series of events where enemies and allies are not as they seem.
Review by: Ms. Buschmann
Review by: Ms. Buschmann