With a watchful eye, Robert realized the fox was a mechanimal and impulsively sought him out to see if he could be of assistance. The teen-aged boy living above Townsend’s Horologist’s was having trouble sleeping and he spied the fox from his window. Slinking and thinking, Malkin has no idea he has been spotted. He must get a message to John’s daughter, Lily, but even a creature as clever as he cannot make that journey alone. Professor John’s airship was attacked and it seems the sole survivor is Malkin, the mechanimal fox that serves as family pet and pseudo-protector. It has to be hard for a young reader to step away from this fast-paced, perilous plot because as an adult, I found myself hurrying through a chore or four so that I could get back to the search for the oh-so-secret cogheart. Set in the skies above and the streets running through London, this scintillating story of clockworks, mechanimals, hybrids and humans is the book that will keep kids reading well past bed-times.
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