The novel Fever Crumb follows a young girl through her adventurous life in the Order of Engineers, situated in Godshawk’s Head. She is a lone female in a place where emotion and irrationality are considered unimportant and ridiculous. The only family she has is the clever and kind Dr Crumb, an engineer who discovered her as a baby, abandoned by her mother.

‘There among the bramble bushes, he had found a baby in a basket, with an old blanket laid over her head and a label tied around her tiny wrist upon which someone had written just four words:

 HER NAME IS FEVER CRUMB.’

When Fever is offered a job in the strange city London, she has no choice but to accept, but when Kit Solent shows her what is hiding under his house, she discovers something about her past, something that will change her life forever.

I am a fantasy fan so I was looking forward to reading this book and I was not let down; the novel is fantastically fast-paced with an extremely well thought-out plot. I think Phillip Reeve really worked the characters' feelings to his advantage and he cleverly expressed the way the characters changed and moved from different emotions and beliefs. 

‘She didn’t want to go. She wanted to stay in the head forever. She wanted Dr Crumb to hold her hand and lead her bck inside. […] But she knew, too, that those feelings, like all feelings, were irrational’

I think this novel stood out to me, as a fantasy fan, because there is such a huge amount of imagination that went into the writing that you really appreciate all the well thought-out details that make the book so interesting to read.

I would really recommend reading this novel to anyone: I think even those who are not  as interested in this type of genre would still find it a good read. I give it 9/10.