From Booklist
The eighth volume in the Edge Chronicles series begins with young Quint entering the Knights Academy at a time of great turmoil. Despite the death of his sponsor, he is allowed to join the other squires at the academy on Sanctaphrax (the great city on a floating rock), but as their training progresses, their very existence is imperiled by unusual winter storms of increasing ferocity. Although Stewart's writing and Riddell's ink drawings create their own distinctive world, this novel shares charming elements with certain other wizards'-academy fantasies and stands alone better than some of its series mates. Phelan, Carolyn
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Review
'Stunningly original' - GUARDIAN 'Fabulously illustrated' - SUNDAY TIMES 'Packed with action and adventure. There is a touch of the Lewis Carroll to its authors' enthusiastic and uninhibited inventiveness and to the illustrations' Starburst 'This series is so exceptional... I'd bet good money on it still being in print a century from now' Interzone