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Midnight Over Sanctaphrax (The Edge Chronicles #3)
THE TWIG TRILOGY, Book III
Out in the open sky, a ferocious storm threatens the magnificent floating city of Sanctaphrax. Only Twig, who has dared to sail over the Edge, knows of the approaching danger. But before he can return home, his sky ship is destroyed, scattering his crew across the world and robbing him of all memory. Without Twig, will the Edge be lost forever?
Out in the open sky, a ferocious storm threatens the magnificent floating city of Sanctaphrax. Only Twig, who has dared to sail over the Edge, knows of the approaching danger. But before he can return home, his sky ship is destroyed, scattering his crew across the world and robbing him of all memory. Without Twig, will the Edge be lost forever?
ebook, 288 pages
Published
December 17th 2008
by Random House Children's Books
(first published 2000)
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Sep 02, 2009
Charlyn Trussell
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Gr. 4 and up
Twig knows his father's ship has gone beyond the Edge and that's where he must travel if he wants to find his father. Now the captain of his own sky ship, Twig has the vessel tethered to a caterbird, following his father into the vortex of a horrid storm. His crew is a group of devoted followers who trust their young captain with their lives. Twig finds his father who, before he disappears, imparts to Twig the importance of saving Sanctaphrax. Twig and his crew are tossed from their ship by the...more
Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell continue to win my heart in book three of "The Edge Chronicles". This book concludes "The Twig Saga" and what a conclusion! Although things did not work out quite as I had predicted, I very much loved this book!
If "Stormchaser" was concerned with urban infrastructure, then "Midnight over Sanctaphrax" is concerned with slavery and the evils therein. Pretty heavy commentary for a "children's book" in my opinion. I don't mean to give the impression that this is a fict...more
If "Stormchaser" was concerned with urban infrastructure, then "Midnight over Sanctaphrax" is concerned with slavery and the evils therein. Pretty heavy commentary for a "children's book" in my opinion. I don't mean to give the impression that this is a fict...more
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note: mrs. lowery i didnt know how to get three posts on the same book for one week so i am doing them all in one post.
Post 1: Twig and Cowlquape are looking around in undertown. They are looking for there lost crew members when they come across a small tavern. In this tavern there are Flat head goblins herassing the owner and are scaring the customers. Twig and Cowalquape kill the goblins and free every one. Also they find one of Twigs crew members.
Post 2: Twig cowalquape and tarp are trapped i...more
Post 1: Twig and Cowlquape are looking around in undertown. They are looking for there lost crew members when they come across a small tavern. In this tavern there are Flat head goblins herassing the owner and are scaring the customers. Twig and Cowalquape kill the goblins and free every one. Also they find one of Twigs crew members.
Post 2: Twig cowalquape and tarp are trapped i...more
I think I'm done with these books. They have been disapointing. I'm just not excited to read about the "real world" horrors they are introducing to kids. Greed, politics, environmental disasters caused by people, slavery, psychotic murderers... I find the plot detail doesn't keep up with the detail to the scenery and gruesome brutality. Somewhat main characters keep dying off only to be replaced by similar characters (three books = three banderbears). I no longer feel a sense of shock or sadness...more
Twig is now a sky pirate captain in his own rite. At the end of the last book, he searched for his lost father and found him in the heart of an elemental, life seeding storm. The storm absorbed Quint into its energy, and Twig and his crew were expelled in the forms of balls of light, which flew all over the Edge.
Twig wakes up in the Stone Gardens not remembering a thing. He's determined to search for all his lost crew members no matter what it takes. What results is a tale of great loyalty, hero...more
Twig wakes up in the Stone Gardens not remembering a thing. He's determined to search for all his lost crew members no matter what it takes. What results is a tale of great loyalty, hero...more
"Midnight over Sanctaphrax" (Edge Chronicles, Twig 3) Scary phrases from Paul Stewart evoke nightmares and fanciful line sketches by Chris Riddell blow with hurricanes power, here more fearsome than funny: hungry halitoads, mannilids, rotsuckers, and skullpelts p280. Seeking his lost sky captain father Cloud Wolf, battered by sorrow, fear, anger and joy from Mother Storm's center, young Twig and his crew shoot out like glowing stars with no memory of any encounter. Ignorant of the approaching ap...more
Dec 13, 2009
April
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Anyone young of heart
The third book in the Edge Chronicles, this one went as fast and as fun as the previous two! Drawn to this series by the artwork on the cover and throughout the pages, along with the clever snippet on the back cover, I have stuck with it because of the wonderful adventures found within!
Twig is the best kind of hero, one that does it because it's the right thing to do... for his own heart and for the people around him that he loves. Loyal and true, he's the type of fellow you want as your sky shi...more
Twig is the best kind of hero, one that does it because it's the right thing to do... for his own heart and for the people around him that he loves. Loyal and true, he's the type of fellow you want as your sky shi...more
My favourite book in my favourite childhood series. No matter how many times I read this, or how old I get (I first read it over 10 years ago), it never fails to completely capture me. Every time I read the final lines of the prologue of every book in the series, I get shivers down my spine.
"The Deep Woods, the Edgelands, the Twilight Woods, the Mire and the Stone Gardens. Undertown and Sanctaphrax. The River Edgewater. Names on a map.
Yet behind each name lie a thousand tales - tales that have b...more
"The Deep Woods, the Edgelands, the Twilight Woods, the Mire and the Stone Gardens. Undertown and Sanctaphrax. The River Edgewater. Names on a map.
Yet behind each name lie a thousand tales - tales that have b...more
For some reason, this book did not captivate me as much as the first two. Twig (the main character) seemed slightly more arrogant in this book than in the past. I understand that he is now a more experienced character, and the innocence the reader fell in love with during the first books has faded. But I wish the author had watered down the know-it-all tone. Overall, I feel like the author made some bad choices on that aspect. However, my favorite part of the book came with the slave market. Ver...more
I chose this book because fantasy books can take uou away from normal, everyday life. This book is about Twig (a young sky pirate) who on a quest finds himself and his crew lost in the sky during a nightmare storm. From there he is thrown into the beyond the deepwoods and has to warn everybody about the coming storm. My favorite quote is when Twig shouts "Long life the new Sanctaphtax!" Twig meant that even though Sanctaphrax is for the wealthy and "up-tight" it changed. Paul and Chris's writing...more
children's steampunk, now there's a sub-subgenre. in the first book, the written word seems to be largely an reluctant afterthought, and then it's all exposition and no story to speak of - like a series of jumped-up captions. but gradually in later books the writer and artist seem to learn to work better as a team. but it's still very disjointed. i like the illustrations, the characterization in them is great. by #3 the story even gets ambitious. but connects even less. frustrating stuff to read...more
And so the Twig saga comes to a close.
I have given this one 4 stars as opposed to 3 because although all are enjoyable and immense fun, this volume has intensity built upon intensity, throughout all the pages and it never lets up. The last two chapters had me beaming, breezing through them, totally engrossed.
A great wrap to this trilogy of books. I have qualms of course, but I won't delve into them too much. I don't know if I'll read the other saga's in the series or not (I just may, out of cur...more
I have given this one 4 stars as opposed to 3 because although all are enjoyable and immense fun, this volume has intensity built upon intensity, throughout all the pages and it never lets up. The last two chapters had me beaming, breezing through them, totally engrossed.
A great wrap to this trilogy of books. I have qualms of course, but I won't delve into them too much. I don't know if I'll read the other saga's in the series or not (I just may, out of cur...more
*REVIEWED FOR PUBLISHER*
Twig has grown up a lot since Stormchaser and he is now a Sky Pirate Captain with his own Sky Ship, but when he leads a voyage over the Edge – a place where no-one has dared to go before – little does he realize the chain of events it will set in motion, changing the lives of him and his crew forever! This third book in the Twig Trilogy is as action-packed and enthralling as all the others have been and is a fitting end to the trilogy… or is it really the end?
Twig has grown up a lot since Stormchaser and he is now a Sky Pirate Captain with his own Sky Ship, but when he leads a voyage over the Edge – a place where no-one has dared to go before – little does he realize the chain of events it will set in motion, changing the lives of him and his crew forever! This third book in the Twig Trilogy is as action-packed and enthralling as all the others have been and is a fitting end to the trilogy… or is it really the end?
It was probably a mistake that I read this book without reading part one or two and until now never did, so I was quite confused with the story and all the characters. Not the storys fault but that of parents who don't check the books they buy their children, but anyway I never really got into the whole story.
Never minding my confusion, the writing was still quite good and gripping AND they've got flying ships, which is totally awesome - so maybe one day I'll reread the whole series.
Never minding my confusion, the writing was still quite good and gripping AND they've got flying ships, which is totally awesome - so maybe one day I'll reread the whole series.
I picked these books because there were 9 in the series and I love to read series so I don't have to decide what to read next for a while. But I stopped after this one because the storyline does not continue. The stories are in the same land, but different time periods and different characters. I just wasn't interested in continuing, which is a big deal for me, because I will even finish a book I hate just because I can't leave things undone.
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崖の国物語〈3〉神聖都市の夜明け
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崖の国物語〈3〉神聖都市の夜明け
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Jan 25, 2009
Jaemi
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
childrens-fiction,
favorite-series
The story continues, in Midnight Over Sanctaphrax, picking up right where we left off in the previous book, at the end of a chase gone awry. But not entirely.
Follow along as Twig is reunited with his father only to lose him again, then spends the rest of the journey stuggling to recall what it is he's supposed to be doing. knowing only that it's very important, whatever it is.
Follow along as Twig is reunited with his father only to lose him again, then spends the rest of the journey stuggling to recall what it is he's supposed to be doing. knowing only that it's very important, whatever it is.
Another adventure in Twig's world of The Edge Chronicles. Twig finds himself searching through the Edge for his lost crewmates. Can he find them in time to save Sanctaphrax? A nice fast paced adventure young readers should enjoy. I still think this is a great series for young people who aren't sure if they really want to enjoy reading. This series will hook them!
Another well-crafted adventure from the Edge. Decent pacing, though at times felt a little quick. Plot quibble: the gathering storms bring more mental turmoil and I expected more emotional instability in the characters, but they stayed pretty intact for all the craziness going on. Very much enjoy this series.
This was a pretty decent little YA fantasy title, very imaginative and boasts some quality influences, notably Miyazaki and China Miéville. I was constantly thinking that Undertown was very much like New Crobuzon and that the whole flight-based low-tech society was very similar to Laputa. This is the third book in a series that I haven't read anything in previously, and though events in previous books were alluded to, I was able to follow and enjoy this one fine.
Something else I really enjoyed i...more
Something else I really enjoyed i...more
This book is excellent. Paul Stewart takes is to a place where plants can kill you. there is an endless fall at the end of the cliff and there are all types of magic creatures, a human can be best friends with a bear and sky pirates roam the sky Above Sanctaphrax.
'Sanctaphrax will be destroyed by the energy of the Mother Storm!'
Far out in the open sky, a ferocious storm is brewing. In its path is Sanctaphrax -- a magnificent city built on a floating ck and tethered to the land by a massive chain.
Only Twig -- a young sky pirate captain who has dared sail over the Edge -- has learned of the approaching danger. But his perilous voyage destroys his sky ship, hurling his crew into and beyond the Deepwoods and robbing Twig of all memory....
Midnight Over Sancta
'It is out there-in that vast, uncharted void where few have ventured and none returned-that the weather is brewed up by Mother Storm herself. White storms and mind storms, she concocts: rains which bring sadness, winds which cause madness, and dense, sulphurous fogs which steal the senses and play tricks with the mind.
is taking me a long time to read this book. not because it is not good but b/c i've had so much going ton this month- 3/4 though it now :) very good :)
is taking me a long time to read this book. not because it is not good but b/c i've had so much going ton this month- 3/4 though it now :) very good :)
I really liked this book, very awesome adventure story. I think it was a lot better than Harry Potter, because it sort of emulates real life with slums and criminals and so on and so forth.
The Twig trilogy concludes with this book. Somewhat of a return to the style of the first book with a very episodic plot, much of the main direction of this story is lost through an odd device in the beginning. Despite some unsatisfying elements to the story, we are treated to a new perspective in the form of Cowlquape, and again are introduced to new aspects of the world of the Edge.
Sadly, I think this is the weakest of the trilogy, which is a shame. However, I feel that Stewert was still findi...more
Sadly, I think this is the weakest of the trilogy, which is a shame. However, I feel that Stewert was still findi...more
This book just didn't hold my interest. I don't care about the characters anymore. It is very unusual for me to not finish a fantasy novel, but I just kept thinking about all the other books I could be reading that I'd like better than this one..
This was as enjoyable as the second one. Paul Stewart is a great author, and Chris Riddell's pictures are great.
I think this one is my favorite of the series so far. A great story line that brings things full circle and it wasn't nearly as gruesome as the others.
Ooo... oh man, nicely ended and definitely not as predictable as one would expect.
The conclusion of the first Edge triolgy. I enjoyed the tenacity and loyalty of Twig and his friends (crew). Enough adventure to keep you turning pages and enough warmth to make you glad you did.
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Paul Stewart is a writer of children's books, best known for the bestselling The Edge Chronicles, the Free Lance novels and the Far Flung Adventures series among others. Many of his books are illustrated by Chris Riddell. Paul Stewart lives in the Seaside town Brighton with his wife and children.
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