The characters were pretty exceptional, despite the fact that the villain was obvious. And despite all of this I did definitely have an enjoyable time with the book. There was absolutely nothing surprising about anything in the story. I picked out the main villain incredibly quickly, determined where what it was that he was after in the first place was located immediately after the event with Lily and her mother was revealed as well as the use of it discussed. Honestly, despite how much I loved reading Cogheart, the truth of the matter is that the story was incredibly predictable. And then there's the matter of the invention her father made. Pulled from school, the life she once knew is quickly thrown into chaos as her father's mechs are sold off and the housekeeper isn't quite who she says she is.

When her father's ship suddenly crashes and he is presumed dead, Lily falls into the guardianship of his housekeeper. But Lily, the daughter of a rather renowned and brilliant mech inventor knows better. In a world where mechanized people and animals serve the humans around them, very few have come to the conclusion that these machines can feel. With the help of a clockmaker’s son, Robert, and her mechanimal fox, Malkin, Lily escapes London in search of the one person who might know something about her father’s disappearance-and what he left behind.With a cover like this one, Cogheart by Peter Bunzl was never a book that I could have passed up the opportunity to read.

And all he left behind is a small box-with no key, no hinges. But if he made such a miraculous discovery, he certainly never told Lily. But what could they possibly want from her? There are rumors, Lily learns, that her father had invented the most valuable invention ever made-a perpetual motion machine. Mysterious, silver-eyed men are lurking in the shadows, just waiting for their chance to strike. Now cared for by her guardian, the heartless Madame Verdigris, Lily is quite certain that she’s being watched. But after her father-a famous inventor-disappears on a routine zeppelin flight, Lily’s life gets turned upside down. A strong-willed girl, Lily felt trapped in a life of Victorian stuffiness at her prim boarding school. Thirteen-year-old Lily Hartman always dreamed of adventure.

A cogheart adventure