The impact they add to the text is near unquantifiable. Elements of their journey are joyous and the illustrations in this book are worth a star in themselves. My favorite highlight of this book is the fabricated loris, that can perceive your emotions so well, warn you about approaching sounds of people/other creatures/machines.Acting as the sequel to Leviathan, Behemoth tells the story of Deryn and Alek and their role in an alternative version of world history involving war, revolution and fantastical machines. While I didn't want to support the Clankers (obviously), I could relate more to them than the Darwinists, with their "godless" (as the Clankers love to say) fabricated animals. If this was a real movie, she would have received accolades for her brilliant acting!Įven with all the Clanker and Darwinist jargon, I was looking forward to more "technological innovations" of that period. Yet another moment later, she's chiding herself for thinking like a maiden in distress who needs help, and shakes herself back to the boy she is pretending to be. A moment later, she remembers he doesn't even know she's a girl, and that fact makes her sad. For instance, she's falling in love with a certain someone, and wants him to notice her. On the other hand, just like any girl, she has deep yearnings that she struggles against. She's content being a boy and doesn't like any girly traits or behavior. Deryn poses as a boy, Dylan, because girls weren't allowed to fight. I noticed this in the Uglies series also. Scott writes his female heroines really well.
One thing I truly admired is how well Scott Westerfeld has mapped events in this trilogy to real events without making them appear contrived or duplicated.ĭeryn continues to remain my favorite character in this series.
Leviathan shared a lot of similarities with actual WW1 events, Behemoth even less. I stopped making comparisons halfway into the first book. There's something about the way this series is written that makes me want to read more. Buuuuuut, I'll swallow my words just for this series. I've said this before - I'm not a fan of alternate reality. Although most of the fundamentals of the WW1 are retained, the author has changed enough facts about the WW1 to make this a fictional event in its own right. The Leviathan series is set against the World War I.
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