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A review by elhiwe
Midnight Over Sanctaphrax by Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
5.0
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 been recorded in ancient scrolls, tales that have been passed down the generations by word of mouth- tales which are even now being told.
What follows is but one of those tales.
"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 been recorded in ancient scrolls, tales that have been passed down the generations by word of mouth- tales which are even now being told.
What follows is but one of those tales.