Book Review: Stormchaser: The Edge Chronicles, Book 2
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What Parents Should Know
This isn't a book made for discussion, but you could talk
about the pollution problem in Undertown, and how their search
for a magic solution avoids having to deal directly with the
problem.
Common Sense Media Review
Where the first of
The Edge Chronicles was, well, edgy, this one goes
over the edge. What was delightfully bizarre in the first book
becomes unnecessarily gruesome in the second. The violence of a
character named Screed is shockingly graphic and cruel, jolting
the reader at times out of the fantasy world the authors labor
so hard to create.
Even this might be somewhat forgivable -- it is a small part of the story after all -- but it happens during the long, seemingly interminable, middle section of the book, when there's little going on to distract the reader from it. Readers may feel they're slogging through the Mire with Twig just trying to get through the book, though they will be rewarded by a very satisfying ending. But strong writing and vivid imagination can't rescue this overlong entry in a promising series.
From the Book:
Twig nodded and swallowed away the lump in his throat.
How had so noble a creature ended up in such squalid
surroundings? The caterbird that had watched over Twig ever
since he had been present at its hatching -- who had dared to
capture it? And why had it been placed in a cage barely larger
than the poor creature itself so that it had to squat down on
its perch, with its magnificent horned beak sticking out
through the bars, unable to straighten up, unable to flap its
wings?
"I'll soon have you out of there," said Twig, pulling his knife from his belt.
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