Mortal Engines Book Age Rating. Read our parents' review for details on sexual content, violence and language. Mortal engines launched philip reeves brilliantly imagined creation, the world of the traction era, where mobile cities fight for survival in a post apocalyptic future.
On one of these massive traction cities, the old london, tom natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with a mysterious young woman from the wastelands who will change the course of his life. Mortal engines is latter.while it's bit older they are definitively branches of the same tree which has roots in old fantasy. The establishment dystopias (a la the hunger games) that have come out recently, especially since the establishment is an actual moving city.
Many thousands of years in the future, earth’s cities roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources.
The first instalment introduces young apprentice tom natsworthy and the murderous hester shaw, flung from the fast. Philip reeve (goodreads author) 4.33 · rating details · 134 ratings · 5 reviews. Read our parents' review for details on sexual content, violence and language. It's too childish for most teens and too brutally violent for most children, especially in the climactic battle.