Beyond the Deepwoods (The Edge Chronicles: 1): No.1

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urn:lcp:beyonddeepwoods0000stew:epub:99e54c06-70cd-4057-bc38-4dc697bd6741 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier beyonddeepwoods0000stew Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4mm9372f Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780552569675 Abandoned at birth in the perilous Deepwoods, Twig Verginix 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. Twig ist ein abenteuerliches Buch für Leser ab 12 Jahren. In dieser Geschichte trifft man wundersame Geschöpfe und Pflanzen, wie Honigkobolden, Banderbären, Höhlenfurien, Wiegenliedbäumen, Himmelspiraten und Bluteichen. So trifft er auf hilfreiche und mörderische Wesen. Beyond the Deepwoods by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell book review". fantasybookreview.co.uk . Retrieved 23 November 2015. Abstract: When thirteen-year-old Twig discovers that he was abandoned at birth by an unknown outsider, he leaves his woodtroll family behind and sets off on a journey through and beyond the dangerous Deepwoods. As he makes his way through a nightmarish world of goblins and trogs, bloodthirsty beasts and flesh-eating trees, only two things keep Twig going: the mystery of his identity and the promise of a heroic destiny. . . .

Ich konnte mit der Figur von Twig nicht wirklich viel anfangen - er wirkte etwas unschlüssig in allem, was er tat und oft auch unbeteiligt, als wäre ihm alles egal, was passiert, oder würde ihn nicht wirklich berühren. Dabei hat der Autor wirklich viele tolle Ideen, ein wahres Sammelsurium an sagenhaften Kreaturen, ungewöhnlichen Szenen und kleinen Überraschungen. Oh my god, what an entertaining and enjoyable read about adventure, hope and never giving up even in the most dire circumstances. grāmatas valodas stils ir interesants, un gandrīz katra rindkopa atklāj ko nezināmu. Lielākā daļa vārdu cilvēkiem, vietām un objektiem ir autoru pašizdomājums, kas ik brīdi lika pavērties atpakaļ stāstā un atcerēties, ko tieši autors ar šo vārdu bija domājis. Autori ir iekļāvuši arī neskaitāmi daudz salīdzinājumu un epitetu, kas labāk ļauj atklāt sižeta straujos pavērsienus.Twig bumps into another girl, this time she’s a termagant troll called Mag. He follows her and is kepy by Mag as a pet. It’s really uncomfortable, especially when she turns into a real troll and tries to kill him. Apparently the adults don’t like pets.

I mean, if she and her beast Karg had joined Twig and the banderbear earlier in the story, the four of them would've made an epic DnD group with five-star potential.

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A childhood favourite of mine that I just re-read for the first time in twenty years and I adore it still! I am so relieved I didn't think it was not as good as when I was a child, as that has happened with re-reading some of my childhood favourites. This is one of those series, like the famous Harry Potter, and like the Chrestomanci series of Diana Wynne Jones, that I used to fervently and desperately wish were real. Or rather, that felt so real incredibly real that I simply couldn't believe they weren't. Yes, my 11th birthday was somewhat spoiled with the absence of a letter from Hogwart's, but it's no time to dwell on that. Gristle Tatum was unfortunately bitten and she starts to swell and fill with air. Twig hangs onto her, and the pair float above the treeline. They are eventually rescued by a group of slaughterers, who shoot them down and cure Gristle from her ailment. Ich bin von dem Buch ein bisschen enttäuscht, weil ich eine völlig andere Erwartung hatte. Das Cover hat mich an die Scheibenweltromane erinnert, dabei hat man es hier mit einem reinen Kinderbuch zu tun. Was jetzt an sich nicht schlimm wäre, aber ich bin mit dem Handlungsablauf nicht so wirklich klargekommen.

We follow Twig, a young humanoid character on his journey across The Edge, a fantasy world full to the brim with creatures and animals that both terrify and amaze us. The character of Twig is basically an enigma, both to us readers and to himself. He’s an outcast, a human amongst the woodtrolls. He wants to find out where he came from, so he can finally feel at home somewhere. The question he asks himself constantly is: “who am I?” This is the foundation of his character arc and also fuels the plot. Twig absent-mindedly wound a strand of his long, dark hair round and round his finger as Spelda went on with her story. Certainly the wood of the bloodoak gave off a lot of heat, and it neither smelled nor sang, but the way it wailed and screamed as it burned put off all but a few. No, among the woodtrolls, lufwood was by far the most popular. It burned well and they found its purple glow restful. Also, I wasn't a fan of the mommy issues that Stewart & Riddell were evidently trying to work out while writing this novel. How they depicted the various mothers made me think of this quote from Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution:Later, when his mother was smoothing hyleberry salve onto his bruises, she would explain that Tuntum was only concerned to prepare him for the harshness of the world outside. But Twig was unconvinced. It was not concern he had seen in Tuntum’s eyes but contempt. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-10-30 13:06:28 Associated-names Riddell, Chris, illustrator Boxid IA40277801 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier I like that there are sky ships and how the author explains how they fly even if you don't understand a Single thing he is saying.