The Red Queen
Isobelle CarmodyI saw the moon crack and open like an egg, and a seethe of transparent
beasts emerged . . .
I heard a sound like thunder inside the earth and the ground shook
and broke open like a vast stony maw. It spat out fire and I saw wolves
falling into a molten gold stream . . .
I made my way along the ancient tunnel, following Maruman, who
ran lightly ahead of me. I did not ask how he had come to be here. He
was the Moonwatcher as I was the Seeker. This was where we had been
destined to come together.
Before Elspeth Gordie can continue her journey to find Sentinel
and prevent it unleashing the horrors of the Great White, she
must fight free of a strange prison, where people are laid to sleep
forever or cling to a suffocating existence, believing the world
beyond their walls is already utterly annihilated.
But at the end of her journey, nothing is as she imagined. She is
drawn into the...