Goliath

The first Great War made many people scared for their lives but the war actually lead to some of the greatest discoveries of the century. In this astonishing book, a contraption called Goliath is being prepared to be used against the Central Empire. The Central Empires consist of Germany, Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria. If the machine works, the war will be won with the simple flip of a switch but Alek and Deryn must live through the hard ships of surviving the life of a British aviators. Aboard the massive ship known as the Leviathan, Deryn and Alek face the many challenges of love and war. With this wonderful masterpiece, Mr. Scott Westerfield described everything very well but failed to develop the characters feelings about

Westerfield put into this creation was totally worth it to the reader. The book goes into detail describing the vehicles, people, and weapons that are created by Mr. Westerfield for this eccentric piece of writing. His creative side is shown with his amazing imagination because he made the Great War into new and unrealistic universe. His ability to think up the ideas to have a huge flying whale that is nearly 2 miles long fighting against a battleship that would equate to today’s standards is quite grand. While his imagination of the war machines and war animals was great, he did fail to full make Alek and Deryn into proper three-dimensional characters. For instance, Deryn and Alek fall in love and that is a natural human emotion but when Alek is around other women the book does not note any feelings toward them or feelings toward anyone that is not a main character. With this, it seems that Alek has a lack of human emotion. The same is for Deryn. When she is aboard the Leviathan she never thinks about her feelings toward her midshipman Newton or how she feels Captain Hobbes is at being a strategist. The lack of character development in this book is sad because otherwise the book is