Movie Review! Mortal Engines

Mortal Engines is a young-adult science fantasy novel by Philip Reeve, published by Scholastic UK in 2001. The book focuses on a futuristic, steampunk version of London, now a giant machine striving to survive on a world running out of resources.

Mortal Engines is a 2018 post-apocalyptic action adventure film directed by Christian Rivers and with a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson, based on the novel of the same name by Philip Reeve, and starring Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Hugo Weaving, Jihae, Ronan Raftery, Leila George, Patrick Malahide, and Stephen Lang. An American–New Zealand co-production, the film is set in a post-apocalyptic world where entire cities have been mounted on wheels and motorised, and practice municipal Darwinism; its movie universe is different from that of the books.

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This is Epilagers. A book club for Fantasy-Fiction and Nerd-like reading where we crack open our beer as we crack open our books. Shay and Jay explore new and old books in a two part series so that you, the readers and listeners, can experience the books with us. 

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This year we are selecting books in the genre “Dystopian Culture”, which will include titles like the Maze Runner, Delirium, the Mortal Engines, Ender’s Game, Bartimaeus Amulet of Samarkand, and more.

Part 1, the Prologue, we discuss how we’re enjoying the style and set up of the plot, discuss how we want the narration to develop, and make hopeful and possibly outrageous plot predictions based on the first 25% of the book. Part 2, the Epilogue, will be a quick summary of the book and many discussion topics all with book spoilers and out thoughts on the plot. So Spoiler haters beware! Join us on our journey and remember the best way to tackle Adulthood is with a book in one hand and a beer in the other. 

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