by Scott Westerfeld
Narrated by Alan Cumming
Do you enjoy alternate history? This is a book for you. Westerfeld has woven a fascinating story featuring a fictional son of the duke and duchess of Austria who were assassinated sparking the events that led to WWI. There is a wide variety of facts mixed with very creative fiction such as creatures bred for war to serve as airships, beasts of burden, and messengers.
I couldn't tell this was written as a young adult book other than shorter chapters and without swear words and sexual content. I appreciated that.
This book has a love story, a war, social politics, and a fantastic narrator. Alan Cumming is a great narrator, using his acting experience to develop great character voices that will draw you into the story.
Another great part of this book is the afterword, Scott talks about what is factual in his story and also part of why he made the changes that he did.
One problem I have with this book is it was definitely written as a trilogy with the second two books being Behemoth and Goliath. It does not give any conclusion at the end, you must read the next books to get any resolution...
but really that's okay because the next two are just as good.
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