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  • Mortal Engines, Book 1
  • Written by: Philip Reeve
  • Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
  • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (271 ratings)

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Mortal Engines

Written by: Philip Reeve
Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
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Publisher's Summary

Welcome to the astounding world of Predator Cities!

Emerging from its hiding place in the hills, the great Traction City is chasing a terrified little town across the wastelands. Soon, London will feed.

In the attack, Tom Natsworthy is flung from the speeding city with a murderous scar-faced girl. They must run for their lives through the wreckage - and face a terrifying new weapon that threatens the future of the world.

©2001 Philip Reeve (P)2017 Scholastic Inc.

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This book is so much better than the movie

I saw a video on YouTube, recommending me to listen/read this book, and I do not regret following that advice

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Good story and excellent narration

Good story with excellent narration. The story is quite different to the movie. Many parts of the story were not in the movie. The book has a better story line and character development. plus the bad guys in the story have different developement than the movie.

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Fantastic!

Great story. Fantastically narrated. I can't wait to read/listen to the next book in the series.

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Unique Story

Loved the characters and Story. can't wait to read the next book and watch the up and coming movie.

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much better than the film

listening to the audiobook really made me love the story and characters,i made the mistake of watching the film first which i thought was ok vit compared to the book its not even close

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Good steampunk adventure

A good listen to those wanting a steampunk story including action, adventure and moving cities. The story wont blow your mind, but the writing and performance will keep you interested. #audible1

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Good story, too short.

I would have loved to have seen a lot more character development, I thoroughly enjoyed the story and also the characters, it left me wanting more.

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Fantastic read

Absolutely stunning performance by narrator 10/10 would recommend. And im also reading through his second book predators gold this author keeps the good works coming.

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A fast-moving thriller

It only took me 2 days to listen to this audiobook. I'm sure I must have been doing other things in the mean time, but I can't for the life of me think what they were.

This was excellent. I was impressed by the concepts, the character development, and the plot. So much of it ran contrary to what I have come to expect from Young Adult novels. (Maybe I need to revise those expectations!)

Part Steampunk, part post-Apocalyptic thriller, this also reminded me a bit of the Okie novels by James Blish. Another four books added to my to-read list.

And I've started on "Predator Gold," the second novel.

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I enjoyed it

This was a good listen, the narrator had good and consistant accents for the characters and I can't wait to listen to the next book.

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