Break into Twig (The Edge Chronicles: The Twig Trilogy - Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell)

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Product:	The Edge Chronicles: The Twig Trilogy - Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
Date:	15/11/08 (51 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Great ideas, stroytelling and originality

Disadvantages: Not complex syntax, it ends

The Twig Trilogy includes:
1 - Beyond the Deepwoods
2 - Stormchaser
3 - Midnight Over Sanctaphrax
and is a fantastic trilogy of escapism fantasy literature.
The trilogy and the whole of the rest of the Edge Chronicles series features on a Land far away known as "The Edge". The edge encompasses many different types of terrain and area including the slums of undertown, the perilous deepwoods, the academic floating rock of Sanctaphrax, the treacherous twilight woods, the almost lifeless mire, the stone gardens and the edgelands.
Abandoned at birth in the perilous deepwoods, Twig is brought up by a family of woodtrolls. One cold night, Twig does what no woodtroll has ever done before - he strays from the path.
So begins a heart-stopping adventure that will take Twig through a nightmare world of goblins and Trogs, bloodthirsty beasts and flesh-eating trees. One desire alone drives Twig on: the longing to discover his true identity and his destiny...

Anyone into fantasy and adventure books is seriously missing a gem with these in their collection. The story ideas, characters, creatures and settings are truely truely enveloping of the reader and the added excellent illustrations give a great template for the readers imagination to follow aswell as occassionally being seriously scary.

These books have so many dimensions and continue to refresh themselves with new and relevant areas of interest as the novels continue because of the fact that "The Edge" includes so many different opportunities of story.

I'll have to be honest that I haven't read these books for a long time and therefore can't provide a huge amount of nitty gritty details that some readers might be after. But I think the fact that they have still left such a memorable impression on me is even more valuable.

As I said before, A must read for any adventure, battle, fantasy novel enthusiasts and also anyone who enjoys a bit of escapsim literature.

Aimed at about 13-17 because of it's story content and easily understandable language yet this takes nothing away form the ingenuity of the authors.

BIG FAN.

Summary: An epic fantasy novel