If you came into the bookstore in the weeks after I read Leviathan, chances are I approached you with a fevered look in my eye and said, "you have to read this book." Behemoth, the second book in the trilogy, does not disappoint. It picks up where Leviathan leaves off, with Deryn and Alek on their way to deliver Dr. Barlow's mysterious eggs to the sultan of the Ottoman empire. Almost as soon as Deryn's feet hit Ottoman soil, disaster strikes. Everyone is plunged into the exotic and strange city of Constantinople, whose twisting and ancient streets are filled with enemies, and where the Clanker and Darwinist powers vie for the sultan's favor in air thick with whispers of rebellion. Here are escapes, secret missions, dangerous rebels, political intrigues, wild machinery, frightful new weapons, and curious beasts that herald a complicated road to peace and a new world.

Ready yourself for some sleepless nights. Behemoth is just as dangerously exciting, thrilling, and addictive as Leviathan. The plot charges headlong through 485 pages and glues the book to your hands. The only way to loosen its grip is to devour it and wait, twitching impatiently, for the next... Hopefully, we won't have to wait too long.

Reviewed by Shannon

Behemoth (Hardcover)

By Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson

$18.99

ISBN-13: 9781416971757
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Simon Pulse, 10/2010

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