A Depressing Fugue

I just finished reading the last book in the Mortal Engines series, A Darkling Plain.  My favourite character would have to be Shrike, not just because he is an almost unstoppable killing machine but because he views the world in a detached way.

Shrike’s world view is clinical and unemotional because nothing can hurt him, in his mind anyway. This leads to Shrike drifting through the stories with only one goal in mind, to stay close to Hester, his broken child.

Shrike is a ‘Stalker’ a resurrected man, he has an exoskeleton and blades in his fingers, he is around 7 to 8 feet tall and has green eyes. Because of this he is a startling sight to people.

After the end of the final book Shrike goes into ‘Hibernation’ and sits motionless for hundreds of years, with only his brain and eyes working, until he wakes himself up in the future and encounters inhabitants of the new world, a world without traction cities…(its a long story)

this is Shrike, quite an accurate picture(and no I didn’t draw it)