A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeve

While dealing with people from their past and treachery from unexpected sources, Tom, Hester, and Wren return to save the world.

I cried at the end of this ending to the Mortal Engines Quartet. I grew to love (or loathe...whichever fit) all the characters, those that appeared in all four books and those that didn't. Reeve's vision of our world far in the future, ater the devastation of the Sixty Minute War is so colourful and detailed and unique. His characters are rich and flawed and beautiful and his prose wonderful.
He mines the themes of family and love, loyalty, courage, revenge along with humanity's unending need for conquest and inability to ever live in peace.
Highly recommended!

This is one of the most satisfying endings I have read.

I appreciated that this book didn???t shy away from the more gruesome and realistic parts of violence and war. It was surprising to read but I thought it improved the addition.