![]() ![]() So you can imagine how excited my family was to get a review copy of Goliath. I was very pleased that Westerfeld had included an afterword explaining the changes he'd made to real history (apart from the obvious facts that the Allies didn't have genetically-engineered dirigibles and the Central Powers had machines with wheels, not legs), because of course I didn't want my kids to harbor notions that the story they'd heard/read was true.Īfter devouring Leviathan, we moved on to the second novel in the trilogy, Behemoth, which was just as good as the first book, though we knew it would be a bit difficult to wait for the third book to come out this fall. I suspect I may even have enjoyed it more than my kids did, as I'm a bit of a history buff and thus could connect the story's version of events to the real history better than they could, seeing as how they were 9 and 7 and thus hadn't learned a lot about WWI yet. My family read Leviathan together, a chapter or two every night, and my wife and I were just as engrossed in the story and invested in the main characters of Deryn and Alek as my kids were. ![]() ![]() When my family came across Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan in the bookstore last year, I had high hopes it would fit that category, as it was a steampunk alternate history of World War I – hardly a commonplace topic for Young Adult books. It seems like more and more "Young Adult" novels come out that are crafted, whether deliberately or not, to appeal to many not-so-young adults, too. ![]()
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