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A review by shell_face13
Predator's Gold by Philip Reeve
3.0
16. A book with a colour in the title - Predator's Gold - Philip Reeve
Predator's gold is the continuation of the story of Hester and Tom from Mortal Engines. Now two years later they have been living and working on the Jenny Haniver airship. They pick up the infamous Pennyroyal on their stop on Arkangle. They are spotted and pursued by the Green Storm making an emergency landing on Anchorage - they make friends and a life of sorts with what is left of that town.
Hester:
Hester is just so intensely childish, unreasonably jealous and has such poor communication skills. Her relationship with Tom is odd. They have apparently been together two years; living, working and travelling together all that time. Yet she has zero trust in him and zero ability to communicate with him but at the same time total controlling dependence on having him in her life. She gets literally suicidal at the thought of losing him "wouldn't it be better to be dead than alone again?"
When she sees Tom kiss Freya I get she's pissed, it's a perfectly justified reaction - even though she was spying on them - his actions are not her fault. Her reaction though is to run away sell the location of the vessel to a slave ship runner and try and rescue him so she can be the hero? Not exactly logical - but it made a pretty great story.
Hester in the first book was a miserable girl bent on revenge for her past - but once that resolves itself in the first book I thought her character would progress - well - positively? She definitely progresses, but it's more of a regression; she's crazy jealous and she viciously murders Masgard in cold blood whom she had previously sold out to. I mean her character is very compelling but hardly likeable.
Tom:
Tom for all his general niceness is sometimes kind of shallow - while I appreciate the realistic attempt at portraying a teenager it make him less likeable - even if more three-dimentional. - "For the first time he felt annoyed by her. If only she were prettier and more sociable!"
Pennyroyal
Pennyroyal is annoying as all hell. Like straight up so irritating. I understand that the premise to where they are going / what they are doing on Anchorage is because of him - however I'm glad he spends more of the book drunk and out of the way.
All the character things aside the book is excellent, like really excellent. The characters are realistic and interesting. They have real, if extreme reactions to their circumstances. It's an exciting adventure story set in a fascinating world. Would highly recommend.
Predator's gold is the continuation of the story of Hester and Tom from Mortal Engines. Now two years later they have been living and working on the Jenny Haniver airship. They pick up the infamous Pennyroyal on their stop on Arkangle. They are spotted and pursued by the Green Storm making an emergency landing on Anchorage - they make friends and a life of sorts with what is left of that town.
Hester:
Hester is just so intensely childish, unreasonably jealous and has such poor communication skills. Her relationship with Tom is odd. They have apparently been together two years; living, working and travelling together all that time. Yet she has zero trust in him and zero ability to communicate with him but at the same time total controlling dependence on having him in her life. She gets literally suicidal at the thought of losing him "wouldn't it be better to be dead than alone again?"
When she sees Tom kiss Freya I get she's pissed, it's a perfectly justified reaction - even though she was spying on them - his actions are not her fault. Her reaction though is to run away sell the location of the vessel to a slave ship runner and try and rescue him so she can be the hero? Not exactly logical - but it made a pretty great story.
Hester in the first book was a miserable girl bent on revenge for her past - but once that resolves itself in the first book I thought her character would progress - well - positively? She definitely progresses, but it's more of a regression; she's crazy jealous and she viciously murders Masgard in cold blood whom she had previously sold out to. I mean her character is very compelling but hardly likeable.
Tom:
Tom for all his general niceness is sometimes kind of shallow - while I appreciate the realistic attempt at portraying a teenager it make him less likeable - even if more three-dimentional. - "For the first time he felt annoyed by her. If only she were prettier and more sociable!"
Pennyroyal
Pennyroyal is annoying as all hell. Like straight up so irritating. I understand that the premise to where they are going / what they are doing on Anchorage is because of him - however I'm glad he spends more of the book drunk and out of the way.
All the character things aside the book is excellent, like really excellent. The characters are realistic and interesting. They have real, if extreme reactions to their circumstances. It's an exciting adventure story set in a fascinating world. Would highly recommend.