I was at Scott Westerfeld’s book signing October 25th at Books & Books in Miami. He’s in tour for the releasing of his new book – Leviathan.
Leviathan is fully illustrated by Keith Thompson. It’s a very unique and detailed work that makes Leviathan one of the top YA Novels available.
Westerfeld gave a full presentation with an image projector, explaining most of the illustrations in his book and why he decided to get it illustrated. The story happens around World War I and at that time all YA books were illustrated. That’s how he decided. Now he believes it will be hard to have any other book without them.
Leviathan is the first book of a Trilogy. However a 4th book will be released with all the detailed images that didn’t fit the story itself.
As all of Scott Westerfeld’s books, his fantasy and fiction ideas runs around biology mutations, high technology and people jumping from high altitudes (he said this himself!). This book spins some concepts about how a simple tragedy can change the world and how Darwin’s theory can be very fun. 
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