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The Sense List Vol. 19
… Book Review : Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld and Illustrated by Keith Thompson (Leviathan #2)
“Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable never-ending struggle.”
-Scott Westerfeld, Behemoth
- Release Date: October 5th 2010
- Genre: Fantasy/ Alternate History
- Publisher: Simon Pulse
- Pages: 485
Synopsis: The behemoth is the fiercest creature in the British navy. It can swallow enemy battleships with one bite. The Darwinists will need it, now that they are at war with the Clanker powers. Deryn is a girl posing as a boy in the British Air Service, and Alek is the heir to an empire posing as a commoner. Finally together aboard the airship Leviathan, they hope to bring the war to a halt. But when disaster strikes the Leviathan’s peacekeeping mission, they find themselves alone and hunted in enemy territory.
The second book in the Leviathan series picks up where Leviathan left off. Together our protagonists; the exiled Austrain Prince Alek and the Scottish midshipman Deryn Sharp masquerading as a boy, land in Istanbul. This melting pot city steeped in tradition is about to get rocked at its center.
Here the two get wrapped up in secret military missions, a revolution and a conspiracy. This novel focuses on the growth of the friendship between Alek and Dylan/Deryn. Deryn now has to deal with figuring out how much longer she can lie to Alek and how her lies are impacting their friendship.
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Head to Head Audiobook Review : Scarlet vs. Prodigy
Young rulers, fugitives on the run and war on the horizon. The Legend by Marie Lu and Cinder by Marissa Meyer audio books wow’d the contributors at Book sand Sensibility last year with their intriguing worlds, complex story lines and smart plotting. In 2013, both series debuted their second installments and I’m ready to see how these sequels hold up to their predecessors.
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Short Story Review : The Coldest Girl In Coldtown by Holly Black
- Short Story Anthology : The Poison Eaters And Other Stories (also avaliable in other collections)
- Length : 29 pages
- Publication Date : February 10th 2010
Info: In her debut collection, New York Times best-selling author Holly Black returns to the world of Tithe in two darkly exquisite new tales. Then Black takes readers on a tour of a faerie market and introduces a girl poisonous to the touch and another who challenges the devil to a competitive eating match. Some of these stories have been published in anthologies such as 21 Proms, The Faery Reel, and The Restless Dead, and many have been reprinted in many Best of” anthologies.
Did you know Holly Black’s newest novel, Coldest Girl in Coldtown started off as a short story ? It was featured in a 2010 anthology called The Poison Eaters, Coldtown comes in at just under 30 pages.
While at the Beautiful Creatures book signing last month, Kami Garcia raved about Holly Black’s short story The Coldest Girl In Coldtown and how excited she was to find out that Black was writing the novel. I decided to pick it up at the library to learn a little bit more about Coldtown.
Now, you know Black’s Curse Workers series is one of our favorite reads at Books and Sensibility and when another authors recs something, wehave to check it out.
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