Prince Aleksander, would-be heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is on the run. His own people have turned on him. His title is worthless. All he has is a battletorn war machine and a loyal crew of men. Leviathan Book OneI absolutely adore steampunk and so, for me, this was a great read. The world was amazing, the writing superb, and the characters were, infuriating, understandable and most of all, brilliant. This was an alternate timeline about the the time of The Great War (WW1 1914) and although I don't usually enjoy historical fiction, this was great.
..Just give me a moment to gather my thoughts... Ok, the things I liked. I liked the world and the writing most of all. The Steampunk feel, the curious Darwinist creatures, the miraculous Clanker machines, the way the author introduced us to it by just diving into it without lengthy explanations. It was a little hard to keep up at the start, but I quickly caught on and the authors masterful writing made the slight confusion at the start easy to get over. I liked the characters too, the were, to be honest, frustrating. But in a good way, but only because you like both characters so much that when they were fighting each other, you kind of wanted to scream at one 'Just be friends already and trust him!!!!' I loved that the book didn't have too much conspiracy and deception, the was a little bit, but not enough to become truely exasperating. Right, now for the things I didn't like... Well, like I said before, the characters can be a little bit exasperating, and some of the older characters were a little hard to figure out with their deceptions and confusion, but that was mostly because the book was written from Dylan (Deryn)'s and Alek's point of view. (They found the adults deceptions confusing and exasperating too.) It's a great book and though I put it in the teens section, it could easily be an older childrens book. There is a slight bit of killing and dying, but nothing too gory or big and certainly no obvious massacres. It might be a really interesting tool for when they're learning about world war one (the is an afterword which explains which parts were real and which were not). I'd give it a 5/5 stars. I truly enjoyed this book and would recommend it to most people. StoryGirl
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