Series: Misc
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 0385611307
Pages: 500 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
Price: $18.99
Reader Rating: Not rated
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 0385611307
Pages: 500 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
Price: $18.99
Reader Rating: Not rated
Description: Seven o'clock, on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the end of the world, and the goblins had been at the cellar again... Everyone knows the story of the end of the world. Chaos was vanquished (well, driven underground anyway) and the old gods forced to flee. Now the Order rules - an army of good people who will have no truck with magic. Magic is dangerous. Maddy Smith doesn't think so. Born with a rusty-coloured ruinmark on her hand - no good would ever come of a child with a ruinmark! - Maddy has always been treated with suspicion. Imaginative (troublesome). Even at risk of giving herself airs (dangerous). She can't tell anyone - except for her best friend, the good-for-nowt Outlander known as One-Eye - but she actually enjoys working magic. Even if it is just to control some pesky goblins. Now One-Eye is back - and he wants Maddy to open Red Horse Hill and descend into World Below to retrieve a relic of the old gods. If she wants to stop another End of Everything, she's going to have to use all One-Eye has ever taught her about runes, cantrips and glamours. Use all her magic ... An epic romp into the heart of the old Norse tales: wild, dangerous, richlyinventive and - yes! - superbly imaginative.
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