The plot was crafted and handled relatively well. There are quite a few scenes that are emotionally powerful and as vivid as that one and I think it’s one of the strengths of the narrative. It just got to me and for that I loved it. Lily punches the girls to defend the mechanic. Lily helps her cover it up so she doesn’t get in trouble but some of her roommates come in and find the sheets and start being mean to the mechanic. So she skips a class and goes to her room where she finds a mechanic crying because the mechanic accidentally died the sheets pink. Lily is at this upper-class, “You must balance your books on your head” all-girl boarding school she doesn’t like the whole stiffness of it. My favourite scene is probably around the beginning of Cogheart. She also learns that adults cannot be trusted.

She learns the truth about her mother’s death as she searches for her father. Lily begins to put together the pieces of what the men are after. With her father missing, can she trust the one other person she holds dear? Plot and Narrative Her Penny Dreadful comics cannot save her now. But danger is coming and men stalk her through the shadows as she flees her home with Robert, the clockmaker’s son, and Malkin, her mechanimal fox. Lily’s father is missing, her housekeeper is destroying all the mechanics and searching through all her father things. I think this is helped by the introduction of mechanics and mechanimals (animal robots) there is a little discussion of politics as well, though not very much so I feel this is going to become more prominent in future books. While it is quite predictable-it is a children’s book after all-the story is well told and keeps your attention. They also try to work out what the bad men chasing them are after.

Getting a quarter of the way through it, I finally gave up hoping to return to it, so here I am returning to the book.Ĭogheart falls under the genre, mystery, as well as steampunk as Lily and Robert venture out to find out what really happened to her father. I began reading Cogheart in late 2017 but didn’t finish it as I discovered my uni load increased more than I was expecting. It also matches the age range of the protagonists.

Cogheart has a lot of universal issues, such as death, that are dealt with in a way that a ten year old child would be able to manage. It’s a light read, probably perfect for a child around the age of ten. It follows the adventures of Lily Hartman and her friend Robert, the clockmaker’s son as they flee from danger and search for answers about Lily’s father’s disappearance. Cogheart is a children’s steampunk novel by Peter Bunzl.

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