The Edge Chronicles 6 by Paul Stewart5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Aren’t slaves a bit intense for a kids’ book? How did I keep track of all these as a 10-year-old? I had skimmed over the introduction which explains why these sky pirates exist (I was too distracted by the drawings) so now I had no idea why one ship was fighting another and why there were goblin slaves onboard. ![]() There are so many characters with obscure names to remember: Quint, Wind Jackal, Ice Fox, Linius Pallitax, Ramrock, Queep, in the opening pages alone. Picking up the first book, the 439-page Curse of the Gloamglozer, the drawings were just as vivid as I remembered, beginning with the Hieronymus Bosch-levels of detail in the levitating city of Sanctaphrax. Surely a children’s book now would be too easy and too boring? After university courses stacked with postmodernism, postcolonialism, structuralism and all the other “isms”, I had been sucked into the allure of the weighty, “difficult” tome books you read not just for pleasure but to say that you’ve read. ![]() The intervening decades have seen me keep up my love of TV – namely in my role at the Guardian – but also move forward in my taste for books, which became an equally enduring passion. Going back to the books for the first time in almost 20 years, I was sceptical. ![]()
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