Recently Read: The Edge Chronicles Volumes 5-7

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#5: The Last of the Sky Pirates
#6: Vox
#7: Freeglader
         - All by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell

This series, even more so than A Series of Unfortunate Events, straddles the line between childrens books and adult books - as with some of the stories of old, this is just good storytelling. The characters are intriguing, the settings fascinating, and the creatures are wondrous and strange.

These three books comprise an arc in the storytelling - although I do feel this series should be read in complete numerical order - that covers one character, a young librarian knight named Rook Barkwater. During the course of this arc, we travel from dangerous adventure - those wondrous strange creatures tend to like to eat lead characters and anything else eatable - to all out war.

With that, the scope of the action changes across the three, moving faster as you read through them.

Even if you generally avoid children's books, if you're into fantasy, this is one series you'll remember for quite a while.