The Curse of the Gloamglozer

by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell

Book Overview

In the floating city of Sanctaphrax, fusty old professors scheme and bicker with each other as they study the weather in minute detail--mistsifting, fogprobing, researching the air blowing in from... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385750765
• ISBN13: 9780385750769
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: David Fickling Books
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7

Customer Reviews

best book ever

this book is fantastic it has a very good texture of drama/suspense/action and exitment i highly recomend it to anyone that likes good books

Twig's parents! Yay!

I haven't read it all yet -I'm actually about to finish the last couple pages. It was interesting, getting to know Twig's parents, amd alot of fun. This book is exciting and you get to explore Sanctafrax and the Stonecomb quite a bit. Quint and Maris don't hit it off too well at the beginning and take a while to finally develop their impending freindship. They have to work together (of course) to get Maris's father out of a scrape. All their efforts are in vain and everything seems to go down hill. Maris and Quint meet with many troubles of their own and barely get away with their lives -quite a few times- even to the last chapter. Nevertheless, the story ends happily enough. I'm ACHING to read the next book in the Quint saga. This book is an absolute MUST.

A Taste for Blood

Two teenagers, a floating rock, and one remarkable story. What happens when the Most High Academe's apprentice and daughter befriend each other? Romance, death, and spine tingling adventure. In this 4th installment of the series The Edge Chronicles 4: The curse of the Gloamglozer, Quint, the son of sky pirate captain Wind Jackal and apprentice to the Most High Academe, has witnessed something so horrible and heart shattering that he will never be the same. He saw all of his family, except for his father, die in a fire right before his eyes. Little did he know that worse things were to come. Quint learns that the Most High Academe is hiding something deep within the floating rock called Sanctaphrax on which they live. A monster, a shape-shifter, a demon? What is it? When Quint starts making risky choices, he will endanger not only his own life, but the lives of millions of creatures that live on The Edge. And as if that's not enough, he sets the Most High Academe's creation free and almost loses his only love, Maris(the Most High Academe's daughter) to another chilling creature with a taste for blood. What will happen next? This book is thrilling, but can be graphic at times. It is beautifully written and astoundingly remarkable. I loved it!

The Curse of the Gloamglozer

The book starts off with Linius Pallitax, the Most High Academ of Sanctaphrax, a city filled with schools that study the different elements of the sky, recieving a message that his old friend the sky pirate Wind Jackal is coming. Wind Jackal brings with him his son Quint, who is the only remaining family member of the sky pirate captain, after a fire killed the rest. The two fathers talk and the two children, Quint and Linius's daughter Maris, go into the Palace of Shadows to waste time unti the parents are done. Quint tries to light a lamp, but, having flashbacks, burns his hand. Wind Jackal and Linius return and tell them that Quint is to stay at Sanctaphrax, becoming the Proffessor's apprentice, since he has injured his leg. So the adventures start, and Linius wakes Quint in the middle of the night to run an errand for him. He is sent to the Great Library, a huge building, where the shelves are designed like trees, with categories leading up to twigs, with barkscrolls hanging from them. After nearly falling to his death, he gets the scrool and returns. The next night, they travel through Sanctaphrax to the low-sky cages, where they go down the side of the floating rock the city is built upon. the proffessor goes into the "stone comb," and returns hours later looking terrified, dazed, and drained. Maris, already angry for having to deal with Quint, becomes even more angry, and they fight outside their school. When night comes, Quint is brought along with the proffessor again, but this time travels in, following the proffessor, marking his way with chalk. He eavesdrops on the proffessor, and then leaves. On his way back, he is attacked by a huge red creature, called a glister. He barely escapes, and then waits for the proffessor. Linius returns, looking worse than last time, with one ear barely hanging onto his head. He tells Maris what happened, and the next night, they set off into the stonecomb themselves. They start on an adventure that leads into a fight with the giant glister, then a rescue by an earth-scholar named Bungus. They then set off back home, but Quint sneaks off to go find the chamber. Maris returns with Bungus to the Palace of Shadows, and go to Linius to find out what he has been doing. When Linius moved in the Palace, the spindlebug that tends to the house shows Linius a secret room, full of carvings from the earth-scholars. There he found out about the Ancient Laboratory. He researched and finally, after a long time, decided to go down and see it for himself. Apparently, the Laboratory had been abandoned long ago, due to an experiment, where the scholars attempted to create life, went wrong. LInius found it, and became even more obsessed in his work, neglecting all his duties as Most High Academe, and his daughter Maris. Linius spent many hours in the lab, and finally decided to try the experiment for himself. The scholars had taken a glister and tried to create life, but instead created the rog