#mortal engines series

[capaldofilcumbergirl]

#valentin would be dead on the begging of the first book and done #rest of the book wpuld be getting the gun from Hester #hester natsworthy #hester shaw #tom natsworthy #mortal engines quartet #mortal engines book #mortal engines series #mortal engines #mortal engines meme

[aftertheradar]

So I'm new to tumblr and i don't expect many people to see this, but i've had so many thoughts about it that i want to try to write down.

I'm almost finished listening to the audiobook of A Darkling Plain, and i have to say that this series really surprised me. I tried reading Mortal Engines right after the movie came about but it didn't seem that interesting to me. But having listened to all of them (sans the last 3 chapters of DP) I think this might be one of my favorite book series.

Anyway something that really stuck out to me that I wanted to talk about is how similar in a lot of ways it is to one of my other favorite book series, the Leviathan Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld. In a good way. I've started listening to the audiobook for those ones again too and it's also really good. Both series are ya adventure books about a pair of orphans from opposite sides of a fantastical ideological war meeting and going on an adventure in a setting based on early 20th century europe but biopunk and steam/diesel punk.

Someone else who's read and liked them both has probably already pointed this out, but in case anyone who has read either sees this and is looking for something along the same lines, read them both they are amazing. The audiobooks are also amazing.

#leviathan scott westerfeld #leviathan series #scott westerfeld #mortal engines #philip reeve #steampunk #books #barnaby edwards #alan cumming

[nellasbookplanet]

I'm currently slowly working my way through the Animorphs books (just finished The Andalite Chronicles today and this goddamn tragic children's book nearly made me cry) and I'm so upset I never picked these books up as a kid, I would've adored them. But I'm also incredibly amused that one series I did imprint on as a teen was Michael Grant's Gone series, specifically for its freaky sci-fi worldbuilding and the way it portrayed kids and teens going through horrific situations and comitting horrific acts without brushing over the resulting trauma and consequences or treating it as just a 'fun adventure'. And then I find out that Grant co-wrote the Animorphs books and is married to Katherine Applegate. Yeah, I can see that.

#nella talks books #animorphs #every time someone complains about 'why would you want realism in fantasy books for kids they’re empowerment stories' #i gesture violently at the popularity of the hunger games and animorphs and the gone series and mortal engines #idk maybe kids and teens LIKE being challenged and learning about the darker complexities of morality #maybe they don’t want to be babied and treated like choices and actions are without consequence #i certainly didn’t care for it as a kid/teen #not even for any moral reasons (too young to understand that) but bc good and evil being treated as black and white was BORING #traumatic events being treated as fun adventures was BORING and broke my suspension of disbelief even as a kid #okay enough rambling. gonna read some adult scifi now before picking up the next animorphs book

[secondbeatsongs]

since I just watched the movie, and because I adored Shrike and Anna and the visual effects but felt like the movie was missing something in a way I can't explain...

#personal #polls #books #philip reeve #idk if this series has a name #my library calls it the #mortal engines #series #but also #the hungry city chronicles #and #the predator city chronicles #both of which sound badass #but I don't think tumblr has existing tags for those

[niku30]

The girl lunged forward, shoving her aweful noseless face towards him. “Look at me!” she said, her voice all twisted by her twisted mouth. “Look at what your brave, kind Valentine did to me!” “What do you mean?” “Ask him!” she screamed. “Ask him what he did to Hester Shaw!”

#Hester Shaw #mortal engines #mortal engines fan Art #Hungry City Chronicles #Niku30 #Fan Art #Digital Art #portrait #book series #book fan art #Philip Reeve

[media-shitposts]

I’m very very new to the Mortal Engines fandom but we’re all under the same impression and understanding that the 2018 movie was written and directed by Nimrod B. Pennyroyal, right??

#mortal engines #pennyroyal #hester shaw #philip reeve #please don’t spoil anything #im only on infernal devices #im not nearly done with the series yet #it’s so good

[greyborn2]

I will go gladly to my grave saying that the Mortal Engines (the movie) did not just massacre my boy book series, they desecrated it... but one thing that was absolutely perfect? The one, single, thing? Shrike.

The design, the acting, the voice... all spot on perfect THIS IS SHRIKE. If I could scrap everything and just keep him I would in a heartbeat. Its a shame how they wrote him at times, but that's down to scriptwriter stuffs. My bestest undead cyborg murder boy, at least they didn't screw you up <3

#mortal engines #I know - like - one person who actually knows this series #and I know its got a dead fandom #but I can and will post about it every now and then - it is enrichment for my enclosure. #Plus on the off chance it gets someone to check out my favourite book series that's a win

[cheerfullycatholic]

I finished Infernal Devices by Philip Reeve today and man I gotta be honest, I ain't too happy with Hester. Why she gotta be like that. When her and Tom got to Brighton and she started doing Valentine's Daughter stuff again I was like

THEN WHEN SHE SAID THAT AWFUL THING TO WREN

I just want my favorite characters to be happy nice and non murderous or an awful parent please-

I can't get the last book soon either 🥲 or Night Flights

#mortal engines spoilers #or i guess thats not the name of the series #the hungry city chronicles spoilers

[coridallasmultipass]

*watches movie called Mortal Engines* Oh, this movie is really cool, but it feels limited by the medium, I should read the book.

*sees cool 2nd hand clothing item branded from when Hot Topic was doing a Mortal Instruments promotion* Oh, sick, lemme get that, I'll buy the book and rent the movie again later.

*buys book* Hmm, why does the plot sound so different from the movie?

*rents movie again* Hmm, why does this not sound like the book synopsis?

*sees them next to each other*

Wait a second.

These are not the same story.

#i was legit so confused when i read the synopsis for the MI book #but i was also sick when i watched the ME movie #so i chalked it up to that #turns out i never saw the MI movie at all actually #so now i have 2 different series i need to read and another movie i need to watch lol #mortal engines #mortal instruments #this is my brain on adhd #ShitPost.exe #Cori.exe #Image.exe #Post.exe

[alliluyevas]

did anyone else read that book series that started with a book called “tunnels” with the subterranean secret civilization that was kind of steampunk and the main character was looking for his adoptive father and also his younger sister turned out to be a set of evil twins. i read the first two books and then for some reason never kept reading but i have regularly been like i wonder what happened in that batshit ass series and excitingly my local library system has all six (6!!) total books so it’s time to find out

#i personally love dropping series and picking them up years later. i read mortal engines in like sixth grade and thought it was a stand #alone novel and was like god but that's a bleak ending and then like 2-3 years later realized it was a series lmfao

[cybertranny]

I LOVE FUCKED UP WOMEN <3333

#HESTER SHAW THE LOVE OF MY LIFE.... I LOVE HER SO SO SO MUCH SHES SO FUCKED UP #rereading mortal engines. forgot how much this series fucks #i THINK that shrike's hearts desire is to turn hester into a stalker. im pretty sure. #and she would be happy with that too if it werent for tom #getting emotional thinking abt later in the series.... the jenny hanniver....... hester natsworthy the worlds worst mother........

[capaldofilcumbergirl]

So the thing about Hester and Tom is that no matter how tragic their end was, their story was happy. They got to live happy in Anchorage, before that in Jenny, they got what most of the others in their world didn't. Their end may be sad, but their story wasn't.

Don't mind me, still sobbing.

#darkling plain #hester shaw #hester Natsworthy #tom natsworthy #wren Natsworthy #mortal engines series #mortal engines book #hester #hester/tom

[arttrampbelle]

(Shang meme i found)

I thought of something funny n wholesome

*Shang tsung texting me while his at the H mart about anything i want while he's out*

"Some boba tea icecream plz bby 🥺💖"

"Ok honey,I'll get you some,i like those too,make sure that you feed the spider cat today. Love you 😘😘😘"

"Ok shang i will 🥰.......wait....the what now?!"

#mortal kombat #mk shitposting #wholesome shitpost #shang tsung #mortal kombat shang tsung #conversations with shang tsung #maybe i should make that a series? #shang tsung is the type to make weird ass animal creature splices and not tell me #honestly cloning is a tedious process and time and source consuming process #so he wouldn't actually do that unless paid very very very very well and he actually could benifit #which with milly he really couldn't and was forced to make her #but fucked up animal cross breeds? #he would totally do that #alchemy and engineering is his profession #tbh shang tsung is just one big ol nerd if you think about it #but yeah he'd make some weird amalgamation of shit and not tell me or be cute about it

[merrilark]

also thinking about tom natsworthy (film version, with the novel sprinkled in) and the poignancy of him changing out of his blue historian's coat into the aviator jacket. the way he reverently touches the sleeve before deciding and taking it off the hook.

idk. something about like. going from a life that was more or less decided for him (coming from a line of historians, then coming into the care of the historians' guild after his parents were killed, the assumption that he Would Be A Historian despite never totally fitting in with their rigid ideals and ways of doing things not just in the guild but on london as a whole), to choosing the thing he always wanted (freedom, travel, the ability to see what's out there just because it exists) because of course, of course this is who he's meant to be and what he's meant to do (save the people he loves, save the world he loves, even if that means fighting the place that raised him).

something, too, about understanding there are innocents on both sides. the desperation to save them both, somehow, if he can, because he demands that there be a way to do both.

(in the end, he can't save both, not completely. but he tries. and i love him for trying.)

#i really need to finish the mortal engines book #ik the movie gets a lot of hate from fans of the series but i love them both even if they're different. #anyway.

[niku30]

This scene…..

"Stay." As if he's a dog. Valentine's hand curls for a moment on his sword-hilt but he knows he will not draw it. The truth is that he is afraid, and all his adventures and expeditions have only been attempts to hide himself from this truth: he is a coward.

#mortal engines #Thaddeus Valentine #Magnus Crome #mortal engines fan art #mortal engines quartet #philip reeve #hungry city chronicles #fan Art #villain #book fan art #book series #niku's mortal engines fanworks #niku's fanworks

[forcebookish]

oh i could finish the first earthsea and actually start the heart of the buddha's teaching after i finish p&p

#i technically started harrow the ninth and the truth of the divine #but i stopped... i had my reasons... #i might be over them now #could always actually finish the mark of athena lmaoooooo #sorry i fucking hate piper 🥲 #idk if i finished mortal engines either #I'M BAD AT FINISHING BOOK SERIES OK #i think i should just go with a non-series book after #maybe a different jane austen that i haven't read #or just sense and sensibility again lol #rum reads