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

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Reading Review – Beyond the Deepwoods by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell". readingreview.com . Retrieved 23 November 2015.

There Twig meets the Gloamglozer. In a massive twist, the Gloamglozer is what has been helping Twig escape from all his incidents and move along through the Deepwoods. The Gloamglozer assures Twig that he is special, and offers to make him a gloamglozer too. It holds out its hand. Twig then encountered a young termagant trog girl named Mag. Curious, he followed her into the trogcombs, and Mag kept him as a pet. When she transformed into a full termagant, she tried to kill him, but Twig managed to escape with the help of a scrawny male trog.

Goodreads Summary:

Obtaining bloodoak wood was hazardous. Any woodtroll who did not know his woodlore was liable to end up satisfying the tree's love of flesh — for the bloodoak and the tarry vine were two of the greatest dangers in the dark and perilous Deepwoods.

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. In one of the chapters you meet a big Beast (the one on the Front of the book) that becomes a main Character and you start to love him and then love him more AND THEN HE DIES!!! and he is only in there for one chapter so sad. Galvenā varoņa unikālā izcelsme piedāvā lasītājam ceļot cauri daudzajiem šķēršļiem, kā caur savdabīgām puzlēm, ko radījuši autori. Notikumi stāstā patstāvīgi mainās, katru reizi, kad beidzas kāds notikums, aiz tā seko jau nākamais. Stāsta spraigais sižets neatslābst ne mirkli, tā ieintriģējot lasītājus līdz pat grāmatas beigām. Pēc grāmatas izlasīšanas, ikvienam lasītājam, arī man, tai skaitā, rodas vēlme izlasīt grāmatas turpinājumu.

Reviews

The gyle goblins rebel and stuff the Grossmother down the garbage chute. Twig escapes during the chaos. So begins a heart-stopping adventure that will take Twig through a nightmare world of fearsome goblins, bloodthirsty beasts and flesh-eating trees. Can he discover the truth about his past? Twig swallowed guiltily. This was something he had wished so often as he’d lain in his bunk after yet another day of being teased and taunted and bullied. 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. 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.