(Not to be confused with the character of the same name.)
Fever Crumb is the first book in the Fever Crumb trilogy, which is the prequel to the Mortal Engines quartet. It was published on 13th April, 2009. Chronologically and in publishing, it is proceeded by A Web of Air. In publishing, it succeeds A Darkling Plain. The audiobook was narrated by Philip Reeve.
Setting[]
- Main article: Timeline
Fever Crumb is set in 477 ᴛᴇ, 530 years before the events of Mortal Engines, during the Nomad Wars. It is set 14 years after the Scriven Uprising, 3 years before London becomes the first Traction City, and follows the development of the technology used to create it.[1]
Publishers summary[]
London is days away from war.
A terrifying new enemy is on the attack - huge armoured fortresses that move across the wastelands. Buried in London's past is a secret that may save it from destruction. And the key to unlock that is an orphan called Fever Crumb.
Set centuries before the events of the Mortal Engines books, Fever Crumb is the latest, brilliant novel in the internationally best-selling series, acclaimed as a modern classic.[2]
Plot[]
Fever Crumb, an apprentice of the London Order of Engineers living in Godshawk's Head with her father Dr. Gideon Crumb,[3] is sent into the city to work with archaeologist Kit Solent in uncovering his newest discovery.[4] Taking the Wind Tram to Central Terminus,[5] she becomes lost in Stragglemarket. A mob forms suspecting her of being a Scriven mutant, the deposed former rulers of London, but she is rescued by Kit.[6] Bagman Creech, famed Scriven Skinner from the Skinner Riots, begins investigating rumors of Fever at Ted Swiney's pub the Mott and Hoople, taking Charley Shallow with him as apprentice.[7]
After returning to Kit's house on Ludgate Hill with his two children, Fern and Ruan, and meeting his housekeeper, Mistress Gloomstove, Kit shows Fever a tunnel hidden behind a bookshelf.[8] The passage leads deep into the Brick Marsh, directly beneath the ruins of Nonesuch House, home of the Scriven King Auric Godshawk, where Kit has found an impenetrable vault door.[9]" Meanwhile Creech begins to deduce Kit's identity.[10]
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References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Illustrated World of Mortal Engines, "Timeline Of The Traction Era"
- ↑ Fever Crumb, Back Cover
- ↑ Fever Crumb, Chapter 1: "The Girl From Godshawk's Head"
- ↑ Fever Crumb, Chapter 2: "An Offer of Employment"
- ↑ Fever Crumb, Chapter 3: "The Wind Tram"
- ↑ Fever Crumb, Chapter 4: "Stragglemarket"
- ↑ Fever Crumb, Chapter 5: "At the Sign of the Mott and Hoople"
- ↑ Fever Crumb, Chapter 6: "The Archaeologist's House"
- ↑ Fever Crumb, Chapter 7: "Under London"
- ↑ Fever Crumb, Chapter 8: "Skinner's Boy"