Days of Magic, Nights of War
by:
Clive Barker (author)
All things in their time . . . Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the Abarat are getting stranger by the hour. Why has the Lord of Midnight sent his henchman after her? Why can she suddenly speak words of magic? Why is this world familiar? Candy and her companions must solve the mystery of her...
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All things in their time . . . Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the Abarat are getting stranger by the hour. Why has the Lord of Midnight sent his henchman after her? Why can she suddenly speak words of magic? Why is this world familiar? Candy and her companions must solve the mystery of her past before the forces of Night and Day clash and Absolute Midnight descends upon the islands. A final war is about to begin. . . .
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060596385 (0060596384)
ASIN: 60596384
Publish date: September 26th 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 569
Edition language: English
Series: Abarat (#2)
When I re-read Abarat, I read the mass-market paperback printing of the book. This wasn't really such a big deal; all the text from the original novel was there, so I wasn't missing any of the story. I was all set to move on to Days of Magic, Nights of War in the same fashion, but I stumbled acros...
Oh jeez, okay, this is the second book in the Abarat series. I had started it years ago, right after I had finished the first one. I should have reread the first one, but I didn't. While reading this one I found that I had to stop and try to remember who certain people were from the first book. Yet,...
Days of Magic, Nights of War is the book I had hoped Abarat would be – and then some!Abarat felt like an old fashioned travelogue, a book written solely to describe the people and the places that Candy encountered in her travels. Instead of advancing a story, the focus of each new chapter was seemin...