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this is the first of four books in reeve's hungry city chronicles series. matt's been trying to get me to read these for months, and i've been resistant, but i finally decided to give it a try. and i'm glad i did, because this book is phenomenal. i've been trying to play it cool at home so that matt won't know how much i liked it, but here i can gush. so, it's pretty much about a time way in the future, when things have gone to municipal darwinism. i.e., towns and cities are on wheels and they eat each other. seriously. my favorite repeated line in this book is "it's a town eat town world." anyway. tom is a third class apprentice in london who gets his mind TOTALLY BLOWN and finds out that things aren't quite what they seem when he meets hester, a girl about his age who is horribly disfigured facewise as a result of a run-in with valentine, london's golden boy and tom's hero. the story starts in london but tom and hester travel all over the place. excellent book. i'm on the second in the series now.
jackie asked me to include genres in my reviews, so this one is a young adult sci-fi/fantasy type of thing.
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