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Review Summaries
"Set in the imaginative world of the Edge, a world built upon a ship-shaped continent jutting out into an endless void, this is a story about a group of refugees fleeing Undertown, an overcrowded, industrialized city that was destroyed by a demented villain in a fit of vengeance with a dark maelstrom that has ravaged a considerable part of Edgeworld. Now all those who lived there, gnokgoblins, cloddertrogs, woodtrolls, waifs and many others are forced to flee across Edgeworld in search of the Free Glades, a land where they can settle in peace. Among them is a young librarian knight, which is a warrior sent out to explore new lands. The expedition is led by the Most High Academe Cowlquape Pentephraxis.
As they try to get across first the Mire (a vast, dangerous region covered in polluted muck created by Undertown) and then the Twilight Woods (which create hallucinations in people who venture into them), they find danger not only from the native wildlife, but the Shryke Sisterhood of the Eastern Roost, who having lost their trade with Undertown, descend upon the people seeking to either devour them or sell them into slavery.
Even after they make it to the Free Glades, their troubles are only beginning. Deep in the smoky, fiery nightmare that is the Foundry Glades, Hemuel Spume (who is allied with the Goblin Nations) is plotting to make the refugees struggling to build a new world in the Free Glades slaves for his factories. This development leads to the climatic battle, in which the Free Gladers must rally to defend the freedom they worked so hard to build."
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Overall Review
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Plot
Composition of Book Descript. of chases or violence - 30% planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20% Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 30%
Tone of book
- scarey (primal ax-wielding fear)
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- fantasy world/fantasy past
Explore/1st contact/ enviro story
Yes
Plotlets:
- roaming fantasy world, battling hostile monsters
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Kid's book (ages 7-14)
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- warrior/knight
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- slaver
Eccentric:
Yes
- wild
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a little/some
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Setting
Terrain
- Forests
Planet outside solar system?
Yes
Style
Person?
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only)
- none/very little science jargon needed
How much dialogue?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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