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" In the Tolkien/Pratchett tradition, fabulously illustrated and written with more than usual elegance." - "The Sunday Times"
"From the Hardcover edition."
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Now reissued in fantastic new livery, this is the first book in the Quint sequence that begins the bestselling Edge Chronicles series.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This fourth book in the Edge Chronicles series is actually chronologically the first, and although long and sometimes complicated, it is the most exciting to date.
Having met Twig in the first book, we are now whisked back in time to when his parents first meet, and although the wrong sparks fly at first, the strength of their characters draws them together as they face the most terrible threat to Sanctaphrax.
Packed with intrigue, treachery, adventure, courage and emotion, the story revolves around the distracted Linius Pallitax, the Most High Academe of Sanctaphrax, his brave apprentice Quint, son of a sky pirate captain, and Maris, his neglected daughter.
Quint and Maris must brave the mysteries and horrors of the stonecomb that lies deep within the floating rock, to discover the terrible secret that Linius has been harboring. With each visit, the Most High Academe has been growing weaker, and there are terrible secrets hidden within the ever-changing tunnels.
While it is not necessary to have read the first three books, a little background is always helpful, and I would recommend reading at least book one before this one.
A little stretched out in places, brilliant in others, the stage is now set for an incredible book five.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I don't know how this series has escaped the bandwagon that poor Harry Potter was subjected to.... (but I guess those who know the books pass the word on to the deserving public - for sure, I do).
This sequel to Cloud Wolf and prequel to the Deepwoods series has the same deliciously dark detailed drawings and inventive imagery as the previous 4 in the series.
Mr.Stewart's fertile imagination has created the strange natural laws that govern this land, producing some weird effects and the extraordinary creatures that Mr.Riddell's art gives life to. The stories can be read and re-read with no diminishing of their power to entertain and enthrall.
Quint (aka Cloud Wolf, Twig's father) is land-bound, apprenticed to the Most High Academe in Sanctaphrax, where he has to descend into the terrifying bowels of the floating rock on a secret task, in company with Maris, the Academe's only daughter.
We get more details of Sanctaphrax (super maps!) and the action never stops as one is dragged along with the story, meeting more strange 'natural' phenomena and gloriously grotesque creatures, with exquisite drawings on almost every page.
The series shows no signs of petering out or running out of steam - they are destined to become world classics!
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Once again Paul Stewart has outdone himself in the fifth book of his series, the Edge Chronicals. His writing is grasping and thrilling, and if you hae read the books before you will notice a change as this is no longer about the main character Twig, but his father's history and his exciting life as a teenager. I give it four stars as I know that he can do way better than this as demonstrated in the first and second books of this series. But this is a good book so I strongly reccommend it.
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Great book
This book is really good I loved it, the storyline is great and its exciting and the pictures are really good too. Read more
Published on 2 May 2010
fantstic read whatever your age!
Originally bought for my daughter I just read the first page and was hooked, had to finish the whole book before I passed it on to her. Read more
Published on 2 Sep 2009 by K. Green
Imaginative and easy to read. Great book
This is the first of the Edge Chronicles in terms of the story, even though it wasn't the first to be written. Read more
Published on 22 July 2009 by Mr. M. Jones
the curse of the gloamglozer
The curse of the gloamglozer is the fourth book in the edge chronicles or though ironically its infact the first bokk of the next triolgy. Read more
Published on 30 July 2007 by sky captain
The Best Book I have EVER read!
I think The Curse of the Gloamglozer is the best book I have ever read. I am not lying! I am a huge fan of the Edge Chronicles and The Curse of the Gloamglozer is TRULY AND UTTERLY... Read more
Published on 17 Jan 2004 by "boookwooorm"
A gripping adventure as always!
Paul Stewart and Chris Riddle never fail to deliver a gripping tale of adventure, and as usual, the illustrations were astounding! Read more
Published on 30 Dec 2001
The 4th Epic Novel in the Edge Cronicle Series
This is A Great book telling you a tale of the Edge Cronicles before Twig it is the first fulll novel of his father. Read more
Published on 13 Sep 2001 by veejagee23@aol.com
Fantastic
I have got all four released books of the Edge Chronicles, and this is by far the most fantastic book of the bunch. Read more
Published on 13 Sep 2001 by jecl05997@cableinet.co.uk
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