Mortal Engines by Phillip Reeve
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A post-apocalyptic/Steampunk childrens novel “Mortal Engines” by Philip Reeve in 14 parts with added sound effects and music. This comment is coming from someone who doesn't particularly care for audio books per se, and that comment is, This reading is full of enthusiasm and is absolutely spelbinding. At least it was for this big kid!
Mortal Engines launched Philip Reeve's brilliantly imagined creation, the world of the Traction Era, where mobile cities fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic future. The first instalment introduces young apprentice Tom Natsworthy and the murderous Hester Shaw, flung from the fast-moving city of London into heart-stopping adventures in the wastelands of the Great Hunting Ground.
London is hunting
The great Traction City lumbers after a small town, eager to strip its
prey of all assets and move on. Resources on the Great Hunting Ground
that once was Europe are so limited that mobile cities must consume
one another to survive, a practice known as Municipal Darwinism.
Tom, an apprentice in the Guild of Historians, saves his hero, Head
Historian Thaddeus Valentine, from a murder attempt by the mysterious
Hester Shaw -- only to find himself thrown from the city and stranded
with Hester in the Out Country. As they struggle to follow the tracks
of the city, the sinister plans of London's leaders begin to unfold
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