Jake Halpern
Hardcover | Pages: 272 pages Rating: 3.53 | 339 Users | 59 Reviews
Details Out Of Books Edgeland
| Title | : | Edgeland |
| Author | : | Jake Halpern |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 272 pages |
| Published | : | May 9th 2017 by G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Childrens. Middle Grade. Young Adult. Adventure. Science Fiction. Dystopia |
Relation Supposing Books Edgeland
An upper-middle grade thriller by the New York Times bestselling Nightfall authors perfect for fans of James Dashner's Maze Runner books.Thousands of miles south of the island of Bliss, day and night last for 72 hours. Here is one of the natural wonders of this world: a whirlpool thirty miles wide and a hundred miles around. This is the Drain. Anything sucked into its frothing, turbulent waters is never seen again.
Wren has spent most of her life on Edgeland, a nearby island where people bring their dead to be blessed and prepared for the afterlife. There the dead are loaded into boats with treasure and sent over the cliff, and into the Drain. Orphaned and alone, Wren dreams of escaping Edgeland, and her chance finally comes when furriers from the Polar north arrive with their dead, and treasure for their dead.
With the help of her friend Alec, Wren plans to loot one of the boats before it enters the Drain. But the boat--with Alec and Wren onboard--is sucked into the whirlpool. What they discover beyond the abyss is beyond what anyone could have imagined.
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| ISBN: | 0399175814 (ISBN13: 9780399175817) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating Out Of Books Edgeland
Ratings: 3.53 From 339 Users | 59 ReviewsDiscuss Out Of Books Edgeland
Originally reviewed for YA Books Central: http://www.yabookscentral.com/yaficti...A Middle Grade fantasy with some dystopian and supernatural appeal. The island of Edgeland sits on the very fringe of the known world. It is the last stop for the dead, before their very literal descent into what is believed to be a sort of Purgatory. The inhabitants of the island thrive on the business of preparing and sending off the dearly deceased. Some, like young Alec, work for the bone houseselaborateEdgeland takes place in a futuristic area where the people believe in a strange afterlife. There are 72 hours of the day and 72 hours of the night. the Suns and the Shadows are the two groups that have been split in half. Wren and her friend Alec lost some jewels (sunstones) and are determined to get them back from a dead man's ship. The two children go down the Drain with the ship. The Drain is a straight transport to an area called a purgatory. The purgatory is supposedly the place where you
I was so excited to read this book. I pre-ordered it from amazon a month before its release. I needed the paperback to match my copy of Nightfall. I spent a long while deciding which version to get for my library and I settled on paperback.ETA I just got an email saying there's a delivery estimate update. It says it will be here June 5, but it hasn't yet shipped. I hope it is true! I'd be so happy.ETA Now it says it will arrive on May 31. That is exciting! If this review is the reason it's
I'm not the hugest fantasy fan like I use to be, sadly. But I did enjoy this! Strangely enough it was another cultish kind of read, what with the religion and all in the world being more cult-like, so I think I'm going to end up looking back at 2018 and realizing I went through a really weird cult phase. *shrugs* I feel bad because I don't really have that much to say about this book, but I will say that I was pleasantly surprised when the two main characters remained completely platonic, I know
Weird, weird, weird. Wren and Alec are friends. Wren worked with Alec until she stole a diamond ring and was fired. This is a society based on death. Whole areas of the world are set up to care for, bury and deliver the dead to the island of Bliss. When an important chest of money is sent to Bliss, Alec and Wren go to retrieve it. When they arrive in Bliss, they find Flower who is dead, but trapped at Bliss. There are thousands of dead who are unable to move on. She says she will help Alec and
[Pre-release]To my knowledge this is a companion book to Nightfall, which I enjoyed and was greatly confused when I realized it was a standalone. (Because that ending....) So, I look forward to reading this and hope we'll get some answers about Nightfall's ending.
Edgeland by Jake Halpern and Peter Kujawinski is a fantasy novel meant to answer the long pondered question of What happens after we die? However, it ends up creating more questions than it answers, which is actually a good thing, despite how negative it sounds. When I first picked up Edgeland I was expecting a wild novel about a boy working at a fantasy funeral home. But upon reading the last page, I found myself pondering the nature of existence. Not many books have the power to make one truly
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