I feel so much for Lief and Jasmine and everything they have to endure while keeping secrets from one another. Aug 28, Rhiannon Minster rated it it was amazing. Just as good as every other Deltora book. Jul 22, Gabriella rated it really liked it Shelves: , young-adult. To find the second piece they must travel across the waters to the second isle, yet the path they take is treacherous indeed, leading to many a new danger.
The second clan are more open than the first as their policy is the truth and always the truth, living out the way that they do it is their only way to survive. Yet can the three stop fighting enough to see it. Well written and easy to read, with a fast pace that keeps things moving. Another great installment to the second series of the Delto To find the second piece they must travel across the waters to the second isle, yet the path they take is treacherous indeed, leading to many a new danger.
Another great installment to the second series of the Deltora Chronicles. My memories of these usually stretch to remembering which books are exemplary and which books are merely regular levels of fantastic, but this one blindsided me by being the best one since, let's say, Maze of the Beast.
It's great for all the usual reasons, but also an unusual one, I think: it regularly cuts back to what's happening in Del. At first this might seem like an unnecessary distraction, but it fills the reader with further tension and dread, as we inevitably end up in a position where My memories of these usually stretch to remembering which books are exemplary and which books are merely regular levels of fantastic, but this one blindsided me by being the best one since, let's say, Maze of the Beast.
At first this might seem like an unnecessary distraction, but it fills the reader with further tension and dread, as we inevitably end up in a position where we know more than any of the individual characters.
Sharn and Marilen and even bloody Jinks, characters who might initially have seemed little more than plot devices, get fleshed out, as we find out that the Shadow Lord hasn't simply rolled over and died.
Something else I think is interesting throughout this series is the treatment of the different kinds of monsters. Any monster that is a servant of the Shadow Lord is defeated and killed, but the majority are merely wildlife. Utterly terrifying wildlife that want to eat you no coincidence that Rodda is Australian , but still just part of the ecosystem. Gellick, for example, back in Dread Mountain , is killed, because he's a servant of the Shadow Lord who's come in from the Shadowlands to subjugate the gnomes and further the shadowy plans.
But the Glus, the grubs and the Arach in this book, even the Hive, are essentially animals, and as such aren't enemies or villains to be killed, but mostly just obstacles to be gotten around.
It's a level of nuance that frankly a lot of fantasy books for adults really lack. Jun 02, Natalie rated it liked it Shelves: high-fantasy , magic , young-adult , adventure , fantasy , childrens , middle-grade , dragons. After making their way further through the Hidden Sea , they come across a floating island that is inhabited by the Auron tribe, who have been cast out from their original home and been doomed to float the sea forever unless they can make their way back to their island home Should they be able to make it past the arach and into the dome they'll be that much closer to retrieving the next piece of the Pirran Pipe.
Meanwhile of course back in Del we have some more attempts by the Shadow Master and his spies to destabilise the country and return it back to the rule of the Shadow Lord, as Sharn and co.
Would have appreciated a bit more of a "final battle" or "trial" that wasn't over and done with so smoothly Nov 14, Mara rated it really liked it Shelves: fantasy , middle-grade , 4-stars , , print. I've mixed feelings about this book. It really splits the narration between what happens in Del, and what's going down in the caverns. Sometimes the jumping between the two of them felt a bit childish, but on the other hand, it's at least clear as day what's going on where.
The Del part of the story offers the reader little breadcrumbs. What's Marilen's part of the story? What's exactly going on? What are the Shadowlord's plans? While the underground journey offers a bit more insight into the be I've mixed feelings about this book. While the underground journey offers a bit more insight into the beef between the three different islands, what terror they struggle with in the last book, the Plumes struggled with The Fear , while in this book, the Aurons struggle with a different problem.
They lost their home view spoiler [and the main cast is used to reclaim their home hide spoiler ]. A nice bit of this book, and the last book, is the role Flash and Fury two fighting spiders play. They play a pretty significant role, thinking about. Most like, the main trio would've been dead if it wasn't for two spiders. The book also shows what sacrifices a great leader must make for their people, even if it's considered inappropriate to make said sacrifices.
The story itself felt pretty short, but that's partly because it's split in basically two stories. While informative and helps with the built for the next book, it pulls the reader or at least me , out of the story. Feb 14, Sarah Eagle rated it really liked it Shelves: authors-i-need-to-explore , favorites , books-i-loved.
There weren't as many puzzles in this one as I would have liked to see, and I felt the solution to finding the next Pipe piece was a bit rushed, but this series is much, much darker than either of the other two series that come before and after it. I like that Rodda took risks, that she illustrated just how evil and just how cunning The Shadowlord is.
She spared no expense making sure that the reader never forgot how dangerous and vile his work is, how far-reaching and calculated his plans are. M There weren't as many puzzles in this one as I would have liked to see, and I felt the solution to finding the next Pipe piece was a bit rushed, but this series is much, much darker than either of the other two series that come before and after it.
More than any of the other books she's written about Deltora did I feel like Lief, Barda and Jasmine were constantly on the cusp of failure, of how completely out of their element they were, and that they would have to rely on a lot of luck and their own wits - rather than the Belt - to save them. Furthermore, I like the political allegory she puts underneath it. I appreciated it in the Deltora Quest series, but it was never more pronounced than here.
There were six titles in the HeartQuest series: 1. Ring of the Ruby Dragon 2. Talisman of Valdegarde 3. Secret Sorceress 4. Isle of Illusion 5. Moon Dragon Summer 6. Lady of the Winds. HeartQuest Books Average Rating: 0. He even opens himself up to self rebuke for his taking of a native wife, having a son by her, and then abandoning them both, because he wants to return to civilization and fears they would not fit in. Along the way, Asterisk describes his life as a surveyor.
Once he is caught on a volcanic island that is erupting and is trapped between two streams of lava. He barely makes it out to sea to survive. He also tells of his life as a government translator, a plantation manager, and an owner.
Trained as a physician, he further takes note of the disease among the natives and Europeans, especially dysentery, malaria, and assorted infections and fevers. All the while, Asterisk sinks further in despair, becoming filled with animosity towards all his fellow men and becoming a sort of unperson. Only when Asterisk leaves the New Hebrides and his wife and son for Tahiti does he begin to recover.
The book ends with his letters from , and he has settled into a Tahitian paradise, full of color, benevolent solitude, and tranquility. That is the picture.
We do know more about Asterisk than these letters alone tell us. James Norman Hall, the American writer who lived for decades in Tahiti, went looking for Asterisk's house some years later. Hall remarked how only a remnant of clothing still existed in the dilapidated husk of a house.
For despite the apparent happy ending of Isles of Illusion , Asterisk soon moved on from Tahiti. Eventually, he returned to England toward the end of the s, where he became a school teacher. Before starting his grand adventure in , he had held the same position in England. For all his craving for adventure and the idylls of the South Sea that Robert Louis Stevenson set going in him, he returned whence he came. Asterisk never married. He died in at the age of 87, living in his sister's house, apparently alone, captured in his solitude once more.
One only wonders if, towards the end, Asterisk looked back on his remarkable life and felt regret for what was lost to him--a native wife, a son, a family, a life in the tropics away from the civilization that both repelled and attracted him. It is a pity Asterisk failed to write more letters in the twilight of his life that would have let us know.
When I think of this book, I will always imagine him a withered old man, stuffed away in a chair too big for him, secluded in the semi-darkness of his sister's Edwardian home. And maybe always looking back to the days of the ocean, the mountains, the lagoons, the colors, and, yes, the volcanic dust, the insects, heat, disease, and isolation. Was the sedate life in England really better? Written in , Young not only discusses Asterisk's book at length, but he also tracked down his family during the s.
Aug 30, Duncan Box added it. Isle of Illusion by George Gibbs. Isle of Illusion by Neil Munro. Shadowgate by Emily Rodda. The Lake of Tears by Emily Rodda. Secrets of Deltora by Emily Rodda. Cavern of the Fear by Emily Rodda. The Valley of the Lost by Emily Rodda. The Shadowlands by Emily Rodda. Above by Isla Morley.
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