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Predator's Gold (Mortal Engines #2) PDF
Due to popular demand, THE TRACTION CODEX: AN HISTORIAN'S GUIDE TO THE ERA OF PREDATOR CITIES is now available as an ebook of its own. Initially published as exclusive bonus material for the PREDATOR CITIES ebundle, this comprehensive and illuminating companion to Philip Reeve's critically acclaimed quartet will delight new and old fans alike. All about the book Mortal Engines #2: Predator's Gold - bibliographic data, summary, search for links to download an e-book in PDF, EPUB or read online. About PDF and EPUB eBook Library. Our mission is to help people find and download e-books they love. Find what books your friends are reading, track and download the books you're reading, have /5(35). Dec 11, · PDF: Predator's Gold (Mortal Engines, Book 2) Philip Reeve's epic city-eat-city adventure series continues with Mortal Engines Book 2: Predator's Gold, now with spectacular new cover art. With the great Traction City of London completely destroye.
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The world is changing and they will be one, predators gold pdf download, if not the, center of the entire shenanigan. This does not happen in this book. They are not leaders of the revolution or even a part of it, at least when it all gets moving. This mirrors to the real world in a way that is quite refreshing.
The whole nature of war is really a bunch of larger organizations using the common folk as pawns. They are just two people trying to live to see tomorrow. Any war, both fact and fiction, is filled with people like that. This makes this book extremely relatable on a lot of levels.
Even though the world is extremely fantastical to say the least, it feels very grounded, both in the characters and in how this world feels extremely tangible. It closely follows its own rules. So do the people inside. That does not mean that the war in this book should simply be overlooked. The set up is extremely intriguing and makes the reader genuinely curious as to how the whole thing will play out. We are rewarded in that regard when reading the following books in the series.
As for this book, we are taken on a journey across the Great Hunting Grounds and beyond and see all of the elements lead up to the climax and slowly watch them all come together. Every single chapter is a surprise as we have no idea what new development will occur. Its extremely excited and it makes the book hard to put down. This is all well and good until about the first half of the third act, as confusing as that sounds, predators gold pdf download.
The climax of the story takes place here and to be completely honest it does get a little confusing. All the plot strings begin to be drawn together but perhaps the author set up a few too many. There is the rise of the Green Storm and its terrible new leader. The climax of the Lost Boys arc, the city of Arkangel pursuing Anchorage. It all comes to a head in the final chapters and sometimes they overlap in ways that muddle the flow of the story.
Filled with memorable characters and wondrous scenery, the Mortal Engines is a series that is sure to be a classic for many years to come. The novel opens in the flying city of Airhaven, as Tom and Hester take on the famed adventurer Professor Nimrod Pennyroyal as a passenger - before being chased into the Predators gold pdf download by agents of the Green Storm, a splinter group of the Anti-Traction League attempting to recover the Jenny Haniver.
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Decimated by plague and desperate to survive, Anchorage has set a course for America, the Dead Continent. The city's young margravine Freya is delighted to find Pennyroyal aboard her city, as he had previously boasted about discovering fresh tracts of green land in nuclear-devastated North America in one of his best-selling books. Pennyroyal a character who owes much to J.
Rowling's Gilderoy Lockhart uneasily accepts a position as the city's chief navigator, and with the Jenny undergoing extensive repairs, Tom and Hester find themselves swept up in predators gold pdf download new adventure, predators gold pdf download.
Predators gold pdf download Gold takes the action of Mortal Engines to the polar icefields, and Reeve continues the creative flair he showed in his first novel; the pages abound with mercenaries and pirate lairs and horrible scientific experiments and a secret city of thieves and betrayals and deceptions and daring rescues and frantic battles. As I have said before, these books are the very definition of swashbuckling; and yet so much more than that, because of their literary merit and excellent characterisation and, most of all, Reeve's sterling ability to paint a visual picture with words.
It really is the best of both worlds. Predator's Gold is slightly less epic than Mortal Engines, with less at stake and not as much globe-trotting, but the character's story arcs - and the development of the overall series plot - are much deeper, predators gold pdf download.
A love triangle develops with Freya, and Hester's jealous actions greatly alter the results of their lives. Reading this series for the second time and knowing that the next book jumps a good seventeen years or so into the future it's impressive to note just how much of what happens later is a direct consequence of earlier actions. This sounds like a self-evident observation - that is, of course, how real life works - but it's a refreshing change from so much YA fiction and hack fantasy, where the story is told through a series of coincidences and random happenings and deus ex machina.
Tom and Hester's lives are irrevocably altered by only a handful of things - some of them big, some of them small, some of them their fault, some of them beyond their control. As one example, Hester and Tom's "inheritance" of the Jenny Haniver in Mortal Engines - an act which seemed to exist merely to service the climax of that novel - has significant repercussions in Predator's Gold. The character development is also excellent. Tom mostly remains a cardboard cut-out, the everyman swept up in wild adventures, but Hester is a fine creation, an ugly gargoyle serving as the linchpin of the series.
In Mortal Engines she was merely a genre-subverting ugly heroine, rugged and capable and driven by a single-minded urge. Predator's Gold develops her, believably and consistently, into a ruthless character capable of terrible violence. This begins with the chapter ominously titled "The Knife Drawer" and continues down darker paths in the next two books. Tom touched her mouth. I predators gold pdf download feel guilty about killing Shrike, and Pewsey and Gench.
But you had to do it. You had no choice. Here Hester kills to protect those she loves - in the future she will not have that justification. Pennyroyal also has a darker side, revealing himself in a shocking scene to be capable of worse things than simply lies and selfishness, delivered while nonetheless being cheerful and polite.
There is, in fact, quite a lot of violence in Predator's Gold, including a child being beaten and strung up to die, cold-blooded murder and limbs being cut off.
I have no problem with kids reading this, predators gold pdf download, in context, though it does seem rather incongruous with the fact that the one hint at sex in the book is so subtle you might miss it entirely. Re-reading the series, I'm having my recollections confirmed: these are excellent YA adventure novels, the best of their kind, and while there are clear differences between them, Predators gold pdf download find it hard to say which one I prefer.
I do recall A Darkling Plain, the final book, having some flaws - but it was three times the length of the others, and to my teenage mind that compensated for it.
We'll see when we get there. Next up is Infernal Devices. Neil Coulter. Book 1, predators gold pdf download, Mortal Engines, was disappointing; Book 2 is worse, predators gold pdf download. I sense that there is an interesting story happening in Reeve's steampunk world, but it's always just beyond the edges of the story he's actually telling. Somewhere in this world multiple factions plot against each other and a world war is beginning.
But Predator's Gold isn't that story. It's the story of three underage minors--the bland hero, Tom; Hester, the ultra-violent girl with half a face; and Freya, the self-centered, fat ice princess--and their petty jealousies and unbelievable naivety. It's as though Reeve has taken all of my least favorite parts of Harry Potter predators gold pdf download put them into a story with none of the magic or charm.
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The end of the book features the most anticlimactic escape-from-certain-death imaginable; a character who isn't going to die even when shot point-blank in the chest; the R-rated violence of a main character running amok; and the ridiculousness of two year-olds living together as though married and now starting a family. My heart is not warmed. There is little to root for, and it doesn't seem that any of the characters are on destined arcs, or that there's anything important for any character to do in the story, predators gold pdf download.
Reeve is disappointingly vague in his descriptions, even where it would've been easy enough to do a bit of research and really enhance the scenes he writes. This is how you write when all you know about fencing is movie swordfighting. But I expect an author to demonstrate a little research when thinking about his world.
I don't need him to show off fencing jargon, but I'd like to know that I can trust that the author is picturing everything that's happening, not just that people are sort of swooshing swords at each other. The most disappointing aspect of this series so far and especially this book is its low value on human life. People are slaughtered in gruesome ways, and most people are little more than nameless cogs in the wheels of Municipal Darwinism.
I find little that is kind, good, and compassionate in this series, which is unrealistic, not to mention not much fun to read. Mortal Engines left me so eager for more that I scoured all three bookshops in the town we were predators gold pdf download in for a copy of the sequel, Predator's Gold, even predators gold pdf download I suspected I predators gold pdf download setting myself up for disappointment, predators gold pdf download.
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