Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
But on to the book. It takes place in the age of Steampunk, which you should google if you've never heard of it, and I would google it for you, but the google at the coffee shop I'm working in is broken. So do it yourself. The two main characters, Alek of Austria-Hungary, and Deryn, a girl who is pretending to be a boy so as to get into the British Army of Britain. Europe is divided onto two factions, the Darwinists and the Clankers. The Darwinists cross-breed animals, such as flying whales (more on that later), and the Clankers make big machines, like the Stormwalker, which is really just a giant tank on legs. The story starts with Alek being kidnapped by his fencing instructor, who tells him that his parents (the important people of somewhere) were assassinated, which, in the course of a few weeks plunges all of Europe into war.Then, on Deryn's side of Europe, she is being tested into the British Air Service, which means that she must fly a Huxley, one of the earlier and harder to control fabricated beasties, way up in the sky, where she gets blown arounf in a storm and rescued by the Leviathan, the biggest airships in the world, and she is whisked of into an exciting adventure through the skies blah blah blah. And Alek goes on an exciting and dangerouse mission blah blah blah. But it's still a good book.
But on to the book. It takes place in the age of Steampunk, which you should google if you've never heard of it, and I would google it for you, but the google at the coffee shop I'm working in is broken. So do it yourself. The two main characters, Alek of Austria-Hungary, and Deryn, a girl who is pretending to be a boy so as to get into the British Army of Britain. Europe is divided onto two factions, the Darwinists and the Clankers. The Darwinists cross-breed animals, such as flying whales (more on that later), and the Clankers make big machines, like the Stormwalker, which is really just a giant tank on legs. The story starts with Alek being kidnapped by his fencing instructor, who tells him that his parents (the important people of somewhere) were assassinated, which, in the course of a few weeks plunges all of Europe into war.Then, on Deryn's side of Europe, she is being tested into the British Air Service, which means that she must fly a Huxley, one of the earlier and harder to control fabricated beasties, way up in the sky, where she gets blown arounf in a storm and rescued by the Leviathan, the biggest airships in the world, and she is whisked of into an exciting adventure through the skies blah blah blah. And Alek goes on an exciting and dangerouse mission blah blah blah. But it's still a good book.
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