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    Fever Crumb (The Fever Crumb Trilogy, Book 1)
    Fever Crumb (The Fever Crumb Trilogy, Book 1)
    Fever Crumb (The Fever Crumb Trilogy, Book 1)
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    Fever Crumb (The Fever Crumb Trilogy, Book 1)

    Written by Philip Reeve

    Narrated by Philip Reeve

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    Fever Crumb has been adopted and raised by Dr. Crumb, a member of the Order of Engineers, where she serves as an apprentice. At a time when women are not seen as reasonable creatures, Fever is an anomaly, the only girl to serve in the Order. Soon, though, she must say good-bye to Dr. Crumb to assist archaeologist Kit Solent with a top secret project.

    The assignment involves a mysterious room that once belonged to Auric Godshawk, the last of the Scriven overlords, and Fever must help unlock it. The Scriven, not human, ruled the city some years ago but were hunted down and killed in a victorious uprising by the people.

    As Fever’s work begins, she is plagued by memories that are not her own, and Kit seems to have a particular interest in finding out what they are. All Fever knows is what she’s been told: She is an orphan. But whose memories does she hold? And why are there people chasing her, intent on eliminating her? Is Fever the key to unlocking the terrible secret of the past?

    Haunting, arresting, and astonishingly original, Fever Crumb will delight and surprise listeners at every fast-paced, breathless turn.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScholastic
    Release dateMar 1, 2011
    ISBN9780545328616
    Fever Crumb (The Fever Crumb Trilogy, Book 1)
    Author

    Philip Reeve

    Philip Reeve wrote his first story when he was just five years old, about a spaceman named Spike and his dog, Spook. Philip has continued writing and dreaming up adventures and is now the acclaimed author of the Mortal Engines series, the Fever Crumb series, Here Lies Author (2008 Carnegie Medal Winner), and many other exciting tales. Born and raised in Brighton, England, Philip first worked as a cartoonist and illustrator before pursuing a career as an author. He lives in Dartmoor with his wife, Sarah, and their son, Sam.

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    • 5/5
      This book was a perfectly compiled and entertaining plot. Ultimately, you are unraveling the mystery that is Fever Crumb. Who is she? What is she? Also, there are the side stories of all the supporting cast and how they contributed to the origin and survival of Fever Crumb. The book flows like an action movie and the audio production is excellent. A great listen for long car rides and the like.

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    • 4/5
      I LOVED IT!

      Utterly charming and delightful tale of one young Fever Crumb, which takes place in Steampunk Victorian England. The author builds a dizzying world of mechanical oddities and other interesting characters, finely portrayed by the author himself as an outstanding narrator of his own invention. Although a different story all together, this book very much reminds me of Edward Carey’s “Little”, another great book with some overlapping themes.

      I would highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys this type of (Steampunk, etc.) genre. I plan to seek out other titles by this author! ☺️
    • 4/5
      enjoyable listen, gives a unique insight into the mortal engines world. I never really grew that attached to the characters but the story moves at a good enough pace to keep it interesting
    • 5/5
      Great to have the author read the book! Delved further into the world of Mortal Engines, huge fan!
    • 4/5
      Starting with great narration, this story has engaging characters and dramatic events to move it forward. Fever Crumb was raised as an engineer, but she has not lost her ability to behave irrationally when the occasion arises. I enjoyed this world of scavenged technology mixed with imaginative innovations overlayed on a seventeenth century culture. I shall be looking for more books by this author.
    • 4/5
      I was quite surprised but pleased to realize that this novel takes place in the same world created by Philip Reeve in the Mortal Engine’s Quartet. Although it occurs a couple of hundred years earlier, it provides contextual information about London’s development into a Traction City. Fever Crumb, a young foundling, is an interesting young girl who differs from her peers due to her upbringing by the School of Engineers where emotions are frowned upon & thought as irrational. The storyline deals with Fever’s first foray into London as an assistant to an archeologist. This experience introduces the young girl to the realities of the world that she lives in & she must quickly learn to ‘sink or swim” The author does a great job developing the main characters while building this world for us to explore. He does a wonderful job as narrator, having inside knowledge of how he wants his characters to sound like. I cannot wait for the next book in this series. Wish I’d read this before Mortal Engines. I would recommend this novel for fantasy readers ages 12-90+ If you listen to the audiobook, listen carefully, because there is humour interjected at unexpected places & tid-bits of unexpected character information.
    • 5/5
      The action, the sense of discovery for the characters, the struggle for existence in their ever changing lives, the determination to keep moving forward...what’s not to like about this story? Thank you for bringing this world to me, and I to it.
    • 5/5
      VERY different, but a good and interesting story. I enjoyed the break into a different yet to come world.
    • 4/5
      This was an interesting book. I very much like that the author read it himself. I like his clipped, exact way of speaking - it seemed very fitting for Fever and Dr. Crumb.
    • 5/5
      Fever Crumb - I loved this book, the characters, and the idea of the world they live in. Cannot wait to get on with the next in the series!
    • 5/5
      In a distant dystopic future, all technology is old technology and no one really knows how it works. Fever Crumb has been raised to be a rational engineer by the man who supposedly found her as an abandoned baby. Aged 14, she is sent to work with a London archeologist and is viewed by Londoners as a dangerous freak to be hunted down.
    • 2/5
      Narrated by the author. Since she was discovered as a baby in a basket, Fever Crumb has lived with the Order of Engineers in Godshawk’s Head, the first and only girl in the group. She’s been raised on rational thought and trained not to give in to emotional expression. Now she is old enough to be hired out to assist Kit Solvent on a mysterious project. Living with Kit and his two children is a bit of a shock for Fever; she’s not used to being around children and she finds Kit’s doting ways irrational. Soon her very rational world is about to explode dramatically when she learns the real reason she’s assisting Kit and that she has a very personal connection to the late Scriven leader Godshawk. Reeve's reading of his own work is brisk, business-like and rational, much like Fever herself. Fortunately his brisk pacing settles down after a couple of hours.
    • 4/5
      Though it’s not on the top ten of my list , this easy read is quite enjoyable and entertaining. Dry humor and Monty Python style jokes. This was a fun read about an adopted girl having the mysterious key to a past scientist with a huge idea.
      I loved it. The minor and major characters lept off the page !!
    • 3/5
      Reason for Reading: The plot was intriguing and this is my type of book.A foundling baby girl found by the Order of Engineers, a male society, is taken into the fold and raised to be one of them. The baby came with a note stating her name is Fever and since Dr. Crumb found her it was reasonable that he was the one who took the main caregiver role. 14 year-old Fever is now being sent off to assist an archaeologist, Kit Solent, in his home but when she arrives there she starts having memories of the place that are not her own. Kit seems to expect something from her and the memories become stronger. When riots hit the city, people come after her looking to kill her. She must escape but whose memories is she taking with her?This is the first book I have read by Reeve and I wasn't aware that this was the beginning of a prequel series to another series he has already written until I had started the book. That information does not hinder the reading of this book at all, though I'm sure others who have read the Mortal Engines series will probably have insider information that I am unaware of that may make the reading experience more enjoyable.I did enjoy the story. It is unique. Set in a future earth, so very far in the future in fact that our current time now is known as the Ancients and bits and pieces of our technology are traded and collected even when they are rusted pieces of junk. But anything that actually still works is highly prized and valued. Otherwise this future world is more or less of a medieval nature in culture and custom. Fever is a completely likable main character and I took to her right away. She grows as a person throughout the book starting off timid from a sheltered almost monk-like childhood. As she enters the world outside her boundaries she slowly gains confidence and a voice, strength, determination and becomes more in control of herself while shedding her timidity.My main problem with the book was that the plot line was slow. It started off well and interesting and then just seemed to lag for me. It took me a lot longer than it should have to read the book. I never totally lost interest but I often wanted it to hurry up and "get on with it!" When the pace picked up and the plot was advancing I was hooked but my interest did come and go. The ending was fast paced and went in an unexpected direction. It feels to me that book two will take Fever to meet many new characters and I'm certainly interested in where all the threads that have been left hanging will continue so I will be reading book 2. I'm just hoping the pace will be more consistent.
    • 5/5
      The far future world was well imagined. Populated with characters with great depth, especially Fever.
    • 4/5
      Fever Crumb(Fever Crumb Series #1)by Philip ReeveA girl named Fever is raised with Architects and the only female to do so. She shaves her head like the men. Has been brought up to shun all luxury, even tea in her hot water! But things go sideways when there is an uprising and Fever ends up on the streets on her own. She is a target for those fighting.This is a middle grade book that is enjoyable. We see all of the good and bad side of people and how Fever has to cope and adapt.
    • 4/5
      Though it’s not on the top ten of my list , this easy read is quite enjoyable and entertaining. Dry humor and Monty Python style jokes. This was a fun read about an adopted girl having the mysterious key to a past scientist with a huge idea.
      I loved it. The minor and major characters lept off the page !!
    • 3/5
      A very interesting take on our "post apocalypse" culture. I enjoyed the references that carried through, even though the people saying them didn't understand. I like Fever and her rational take on everything, I look forward to book 2.
    • 2/5
      I read the three books in this series in quick succession. Quality-wise, the work is fine. The plot holds together, the language is consistent, the world is reasonably complete as a concept.I do see the series as a step back from Mortal Engines, mostly because (1) Characters are more static in development and fewer in number; (2) the plot is slower with less at stake; (3) it fills in some history of the world without expanding; (4) familiar names are constantly tossed in to reference the future events of Mortal Engines, but largely without consequence. In the end, it really took three books to get one roving city built?
    • 4/5
      This young adult novel set millennia after the Downsizing in the London a of steampunk ice age still retaining more recognizable place names than we have of Roman Britain. B@tersea? really? There is humor and some interesting characters and a bit too much in the way of challenges for our young heroine Fever, a rather high body count, and it is hard to see the point. It fails of the joy of youth set loose in a fantastic world and doesn't convince of youth with quest.
    • 5/5
      This sets the scene very nicely for the Mortal Engine series. A well written prequel, with an outcome you'll never predict. Well worth reading, but definitely read it AFTER you've read the four Mortal Engine books.
    • 4/5
      Despite some aspects of the setting that strained credulity and a couple cases of characters doing things I saw as being out of character, this is an enjoyable YA adventure. In addition to having a likable protagonist and an interesting story, it provides some fairly insightful observations of human behavior. This is made possible because of the protagonist's perspective. She was raised by a society of engineers who strive for rationality above all else. (I quite liked them.) When viewed in this way, it is immediately clear that humans are not rational animals. Our capacity for superstition, race hatred, xenophobia, mob behavior, submission to oppressive authority, and greed are presented quite clearly in this book. It's rather depressing in how accurate it is.

      That said, the prose is adequate but not inspired. It's not the rich narrative of a YA writer like Philip Pullman or the clever and delightful wordplay in Terry Pratchett's YA books, but it will do. It's a good read.
    • 4/5
      Orphan Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age 14 she leaves her sheltered world to work for archaeologist Kit Solent on a discovery that has startling relevence to her past. Futuristic society where technology is viewed as ancient magic and scientists spend most time repairing and trying to understand the machines and metal bits left behind from the past. A prequel to the "Mortal Engines" quartet, but a stand alone.
    • 2/5
      Oddly, not nearly anywhere near as good as the prequel-sequel books of the Mortal Engines quartet. It enjoyably explains a few things about the traction city London that appears in the quartet, and has the same good humour that is subtle but often far too wonderful.
    • 5/5
      Since this is only a YA steampunk novel, one kind of wants to give it fewer stars. But it is vividly realized, grim, imaginative, and quite funny. I guess the running away with the circus at the end is a bit of a stereotype, but even that is exciting.It is hard to understand for whom the David Bowie in-jokes are intended. But they are fun for the initiated.
    • 4/5
      I've been looking forward to reading this novel and am glad that I did. It was a very interesting story line of the future. The misconceptions of different races of people that can cause them to war against each other and the destruction of technology and most things we take for granted and how that affects the lives of people was very interesting to see laid out. i was saddened by the loss of Kit though and really hoped that he would remember his children; having young children myself it made my heart break. I found myself hoping that the Movement would have had technology to help Kit.
    • 4/5
      Faced-paced, action packed book. Officially a prequel, but I thoroughly enjoyed it without having read the Mortal Engines Quartet. Does an excellent job of building a very different, futuristic world without resorting to long descriptive passages: you learn just enough to understand the action, and your picture of the world keeps expanding as the action and plot progress. Protagonist is a girl, but would appeal to boys as well.
    • 2/5
      So this is this steampunk of which they mention...this is a new genre for me. I was delighted, at the beginning with the ease, the fluency, and intuitiveness of the words. I thought we have here a winner. But this type of book needed a few strong twists. Instead, we get predictable plots, lazy devices which are excuses for shifting this and that character around without much invention(no pun). I have the two sequels of this trilogy ready to be read. But this book relied too much on a parables like preach. The book supports themes. Like childhood, innocence, coming of age, responsibility, history, legacy, genetics etc. For this book to turn on its head(again, no pun), it had to be just a bunch of original and exciting things that simply happened. Instead, it's not.
    • 3/5
      This was an interesting read, but late in the book, they "killed" the only interesting thing about the character and abandoned that plot line. I borrowed the other 2 books from the library, but won't be reading them. I never cared enough about the character to move forward.
    • 3/5
      Fever Crumb is the first in an installment of Steampunk fiction for teens. Whereas I really enjoyed the sci/fi technology descriptions I had a hard time relating to Fever as a character. She seems more propelled by events that happen around her rather than taking action herself. Getting both sides of the story through multiple view points was interesting, but some characters lacked enough dimension for me to enjoy reading their thoughts. Hints about the previous "Dark Age" being the fall of our current society was a little irritating as the idea tries to be clever without being obvious, but fails at both. I would recommend this for anyone who likes steampunk, boy or girl, but don't get to excited about it.