Night's Edge: A Turn of Light (Series #01) (Paperback)

from amanderson

Wow, this was long. I got pretty engrossed in this fantasy world Czerneda creates of exiled aristocrats in a sort of "new world" where they have become farmers. They've settled in a valley caught halfway between the magic world and the non-magic world, kind of an edge world, filled with beautiful...

from liveshipvivacia

We'll start with the bad and work our way to the good:Did she really have to repeat the main character's full name? Was there a prize for saying "Jenn Nalynn" as many times as possible? It was a little grating.For such a long book, it really didn't have much of a sense of danger until nearly the ...

from Pabkins

A Turn of Light was quite the treat. Weighing in at over 800 pages you have to know you are in for a very well developed story and characters. The past few years I have been shying away from quite a number of books over 600 pages because I think I've become a bit of an impatient reader. So I mean...

from MommaTracey

Engaging and witty, suspenseful and romantic, fantastical and magical. A Turn of Light is a wonderful creation. The characters are well developed but slowly revealed. The dialogue is well written with several laugh out loud moments. Thoroughly enjoyed!! Thank you, Julie Czerneda!! :)

from TWhite99

Intricately crafted and with a unique view of magic, it rises above the relatively constrained physical location. Starts slow; seems like an improbably "nice" tale set in a rural village. But then strangeness creeps in as you notice out-of-place things and assumptions - which the characters never...