Behemoth (Leviathan #2)

Janice Hopper

I liked Leviathan much better. These kids seemed to have way too much good fortune and pluck this time through. Even the fantastical machines and creatures couldn't quite overcome that for me.

Haley Murray

Enjoyed the first book a bit more than this one but the whole series has only been just okay so far. Still really only listening to the books because I live listening to the narrator.

jess

[review written 2011]


I have just finished Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld, the second book in the Leviathan trilogy. The book was amazing, as the trilogy is. There’s a fair amount of action and adventure. There were hints of a romance, and it was quite amusing when Lilit kissed Deryn. Alek and Deryn were split up for a bit in the book, which I didn’t like, but they got back together after a while and continued their bad-assery. 

Count Volger and Lilit found out Deryn’s secret, but did not reveal it to anyone else. Honestly, I can’t wait until Alek finds out she is a girl. I’m waiting on the next book. I just hope he’s not disappointed, because I do count myself a Dalek shipper at the moment. I also liked how Deryn used snatches of German, like Dummkopf (probably spelled wrong) in the book.

Jeni Enjaian

It took me a little while to get back into this book but that's because it has been a while since I read "Leviathan," the first in the series. Apart from that note, I really do not have anything negative to say about the book. Westerfeld's narrative flowed fluidly and coherently. As an Armenian, I fully appreciated the ironic twist that Westerfeld took by making Armenians the revolutionary Committee for Union and Progress. It's the little things. Touches like that make me really appreciate the work that an author has put into his novel. I finished this book glad that I had the third in the series waiting on my shelf, ready for me to dive into right away. While I'm not sold on the steampunk genre, I really enjoyed this series.

Behemoth (Leviathan #2)

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