Fever Crumb is about a 14 year-old girl who is abandoned at birth, and the only thing that was left with her was a label saying “Her name is Fever”. She is found and taken in by the Order of Engineers and brought up with very intelligent people around her. When Fever turns fourteen she is made to assist an archaeologist. Fever must therefore go into the city, but it is not the best of times for it, because the city is recovering from a species called “Striven”. Skinners sneak around trying to kill the last of the Striven. Fever is different from normal people: she has different coloured eyes and a shaven head, and because of this people think she is dangerous and try to attack her. This makes her question her past and try and find out where she came from.

 I like how Reeve describes the tone in ways you would not imagine for instance:

‘“Weargh!” complained Fever loudly, as if the debate bored her.’

I like how Reeve put the words ‘we’ and ‘are’ together: it was a simple idea, but in my opinion it worked really well.

Overall I think Reeve really grabbed your attention in this book by producing different parts of the story in each chapter. I enjoyed this for it made you read on, because you wanted to find out how the stories linked and in my opinion that is what a book is supposed to do.

I would rate this book 9/10.