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The Edge Chronicles: The Curse of the Gloamglozer
Paul Stewart
Pictures by Chris Riddell
Fiction (Series)
Ages 12 and up
Random House, 2005, 0-385-75076-6
Quint is not at all pleased. His father, a sky pirate captain, has left him on Sanctaphrax to be apprenticed to Linius Pallitax, the Most High Academe. Quint would much rather be having adventures with his father on their ship, flying across the skies over their world. But, he has to accept that for now, he has to be a student, going to classes and helping Linius as best he can.
Quint soon discovers that Linius is up to something. The old man asks Quint to do all sorts of odd jobs including going into the mostly abandoned Great Library to retrieve long forgotten barkscrolls. Worse still Linius has Quint help him to get to a secret entrance which leads into the maze - the stone comb - that is the heart of the great floating rock of Sanctaphrax. Quint does not understand what his master is doing but whatever it is he knows that Linius is doing something dangerous and the boy is worried.
Quint then finds himself telling Linius's daughter Maris what he has been doing with her father and the two young people decide that they have to do whatever they can to help Linius even if it means going into the "stone comb" inside Sanctaphrax. This is a place which is always changing and which is home to a horrific creature called a glister. Whatever they do Quint and Maris must not get caught by this monster which feeds off the fear of others.
Eventually Quint and Maris discover what Linius has been up to the stone comb and the truth is terrible. Somehow the two children have to protect their world from the monster that Linius has created; somehow they have to prevent the Gloamglozer from escaping from its prison.
This fourth book in the Edge Chronicles series takes the reader on a wild ride of adventure, loss, deceit, and fear. Against the backdrop of the power struggle which is gripping the academic world of Sanctaphrax, Quint and Maris try to understand and to come to terms with what Linius is up to.
With bizarre characters, a sprinkling of which are downright evil, and a wondrous setting on the extraordinary floating rock with its fabulous buildings, this is a book which is hard to put down and which further wets the appetite for more The Edge Chronicles titles.
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