Thunder City (A Mortal Engines Novel)
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Publisher Description
An edge-of-your seat adventure set in the iconic world of Mortal Engines!
Tamzin Pook is a fighter in the Amusement Arcade. And what she does best is killing Revenants.
All she knows is survival, having arrived in the Arcade as a small child. She pushes away her memories, her hopes, and her fears, and she emerges into the arena to battle the Revenants--dead brains nestled in armored engine bodies. She doesn't dare to hope or wish for anything more than to survive another day.
Meanwhile, the wheeled city of Motoropolis has been taken over by a rebel faction who killed its leaders and commandeered the city. Its only hope is a teacher named Miss Torpenhow who's determined to find the Mayor's good-for-nothing son and force him to take back what's rightfully his. But to get to him, she'll need to find someone who's skilled at fighting Revenants.
With a daring abduction, Miss Torpenhow and Tamzin Pook's destinies are entwined, and so begin their adventures together...
This stand-alone Mortal Engines novel follows an unlikely crew of fighters-turned friends: Tamzin Pook, Hilly Torpenhow, mayor-to-be Max Angmering, and washed-up mercenary Oddington Doom. Together, they must find a way to outwit the assassins that are determined to drag Tamzin back to the arcade, and try to take back Motoropolis.
Readers, hold onto your seats-it's going to be a wild ride.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Return to the world of Philip Reeve’s Mortal Engines in this standalone prequel, a place where classic adventure meets postapocalyptic dystopia. The Traction City of Thorbury, a mobile city that usually eats up other mobile cities, has itself been conquered by a brutal coup and invasion within the city itself. With the hereditary mayor of Thorbury dead, his children’s tutor, Miss Torpenhow, takes it upon herself to resist the usurper, hiding the mayor’s daughter, Helen, and traveling to Paris to retrieve the mayor’s son and heir, Max, accompanied by a gladiator-slave named Tamzin whom she rescues along the way. But Tamzin isn’t sure she wanted to be freed, Max isn’t prepared to be a mayor, and very few people are willing to help take back the city. Both OG fans and those new to the series will love being on board for this intriguing mixture of grimdark sci-fi and whimsical steampunk melodrama featuring corrupt politicians, thrilling fights, narrow escapes, and a pair of quippy assassins pulled straight from James Bond. It’s good to be back in Reeve’s quirky world.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the distant future, mobile cities roam a devastated, hostile landscape, often absorbing one another for resources. When the comparatively benign city of Thorbury is taken over by ambitious Gabriel Strega, who intends to transform Thorbury into the first "apex predator of the brutal new age," adult tutor Miss Lavinia Torpenhow embarks on a quest to save her home. To help her rescue the son of Thorbury's late mayor, Max Angmering, from protective custody in Paris, she recruits young Tamzin Pook, a gladiatorial champion from the raft town of Margate. With both Strega's agents and Tamzin's former captor hot on their heels, the unlikely band of would-be heroes—and some unexpected allies—travel by land, sea, and air, struggling to survive long enough to fulfill their quest. Reeve (Utterly Dark and the Tides of Time) sets this steampunk adventure a century prior to the events of the Mortal Engines series. Skillfully balancing tongue-in-cheek plotlines with brutal postapocalyptic action and juxtaposing teatime and charming banter with deadly combat and cyborg zombies, Reeve presents a world of airships, wheeled metropolises, and weaponized suburbia as a memorable epic with a rich emotional undercurrent. Major characters read as white. Ages 12–up.
