Leviathan

Westerfeld, S. (2009). Leviathan. NY: Simon Pulse.

Alek is always practicing for battle until he really has to leave in the middle of the night in a storm walker.  His parents have been killed and they are after him next.  Deryn is a girl pretending to be a boy so that she can be a member of the British Air Service.  She is in constant fear that she will be discovered.  She makes it onto the Leviathan a fabricated creature ship will being rescued from a training mission.  Alek and Deryn end up meeting on a glacier in Alps both of them trying to escape their enemies.   It has them working together to save themselves.  They get food to the ship so that it can generate hydrogen and fly.  They are off on their way to Constantinople to take some eggs that Dr. Barlow has created.  This is the first in a series of books.

I was not very into the book at first, I really started liking the characters and was hoping that they would be successful.  I'm thinking I will look into the second book Behemoth to see what happens and what those special eggs contain.

I really liked the two main characters in this book.  Alek born into royalty doesn't act like it when he is on the run for his life and when aiding Deryn and the Leviathan.  Deryn is an interesting character in that she goes against the norm and pretends to be a boy so that she can join the British Air Service with the help of her brother.  She is in constant fear that someone will figure it out and pretends to shave so that no one will know.