The Palace of Glass (Forbidden Library #3)

Author(s): Django Wexler

Senior Fiction | Fantasy & Magic | Children's book sale

For Alice, danger threatens from inside the library as well as out. Having figured out the role her master and uncle, Geryon, played in her father's disappearance, Alice turns to Ending - the mysterious, magical giant feline and guardian of Geryon's library - for a spell to incapacitate Geryon. But, like all cats, Ending is adept at keeping secrets and Alice doesn't know the whole story. Once she traps Geryon with Ending's spell, there's no one to stop the other readers from sending their apprentices to pillage Geryon's library. As Alice prepares to face an impending attack from the combined might of the readers, she gathers what forces she can - the apprentices she once thought might be her friends, the magical creatures imprisoned in Geryon's library - not knowing who, if anyone, she can trust.

The third in 'The Forbidden Library' series, The Palace of Glass is the best yet! Alice, having discovered Geryon’s role in the disappearance of her father, is determined to get the better of him, and put the wrongs to right. To do this she has to ask for Ending’s help. Ending, a giant talking cat, is the guardian of Geryon’s Library. Alice doesn’t know whether she can trust Ending, but she has little choice - Ending can help her discover new powers and give her the information she needs to overturn Geryon’s power. When Geryon is called away to a meeting with the other old Readers, Alice sees her chance to enter the world which will take her to the Palace of Glass. She enters a strange world of fire and ice, meets a fire sprite, Flicker, who will be her guide to the dangerous Palace of Glass, where she must find a portal book with a potent spell, a spell strong enough to capture Geryon. Alice will have to gather her magical creatures and her powers, and keep her wits about her as she battles her foes and her supposed allies. Who can she trust? And where will this confrontation take her? The 'Forbidden Library' series is a great adventure with a remarkable heroine. There’s much to think about here, with lessons about power and corruption, loyalty and trustworthiness, all wrapped up in a compelling story about a girl who wants to do the right thing by her fellow apprentices and by the amazing magical creatures who have been cajoled and trapped by the might of the Readers. 
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Django Wexler's third story featuring the inimitable Alice Creighton, in this fabulous fantasy series destined to become a modern classic.

"Wexler is an able builder of magical worlds and creatures, with labyrinths, an enchanted library, and a feisty, swashbuckling heroine at the centre. A story rich in action and allegory." Kirkus Reviews

Django Wexler graduated Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh with degrees in creative writing and computer science, and worked for the university in artificial intelligence research. Eventually he migrated to Microsoft and Seattle, where he now lives with two cats and a teetering mountain of books. When not planning Shadow Campaigns, he wrangles computers, paints tiny soldiers, and plays games of all sorts. www.djangowexler.com @DjangoWexler

General Fields

  • : 9780552568692
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Corgi Childrens
  • : 0.255
  • : April 2016
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : June 2016
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Django Wexler
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 813.6
  • : 352