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Thunder City

"A triumphant return to the world of Mortal Engines."

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October 2024 Book of the Month

Publishing some 23 years after the award-winning Mortal Engines Quartet, which introduced us to an extraordinary post-apocalyptic dystopian world quite unlike anything else in the genre. where the mobile Traction cities battled the Anti-Traction League, and coming after we have already had a best-selling trilogy of prequels, beginning in 2009 with Fever Crumb; one couldn’t help but wonder if there were more stories to tell? Oh, my goodness- Yes!

We first meet the extraordinary Tamzin Pook, a complex character enslaved since childhood and now the star gladiator of Margate’s Amusement Arcade, battling fearsome Revenant Engines created from dead animals. Then we witness the capture of the traction town of Thorbury by Gabriel Strega, who plans a ruthless expansion of ‘Municipal Darwinism’ and non-stop growth for Thorbury, after murdering the Mayor. The city’s hopes are pinned on the return of the Mayor’s son Max, who is away on Paris, and a plan is hatched to bring him back. Tamzin is liberated from Margate to assist in this daring mission. The motley band which comes together find loyalty, companionship and love as they evade various attempts to capture or kill them.

Thunder City is absolutely unputdownable, vivid, exciting and dramatic, but also with such well-developed, nuanced and credible characters and a beautifully tender exploration of what it means to find your ‘family’ in the most unexpected of circumstances, it is an exquisitely written tour de force with especially delightful flashes of humour and commentary on our world. (Literal Air Bnb’s may be my favourite!)

I am reliably informed by the Mortal Engines Fandom Wiki, that the events of Thunder City fall between the prequel trilogy and some 125 years before the opening of Mortal Engines. But really that is not relevant to the reader. It stands alone perfectly, but established fans will relish discovering different aspects to the world they love and those entirely new to the series will definitely want to explore the other books.

Joy Court

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