Category: Fantasy Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN-10: 0207197555
Type: Fiction
Pages: 250
Copyright: May 1 2001
Castle Torm is going to fall. Its master is dying, its people in despair. Its only hope is Allyso, last of the Blood of Torm.
Candle Iron won the (fantasy, sf ad horror)Aurealis Award for the Best Long Children's Fiction of 2001.
Excerpt
Zara snapped, and the knife flew wide, and Tollerman dived to save his hound.
And still the soulbinder cast no curse, but snatched up her knife instead. She uttered a fearful scream and flung the blade at Allyso. Then all the world went mad.
The soulbinder screamed again, a high thin shriek of terror, and Allyso saw her shredded away like leaves in a gale. The tree grew taller still, towering towards the stars, spreading like a canopy overhead. A sizzle of lightning raced across the sky, thunder rolled and the tree’s crown broke with a crack. It fell to earth in a long, shuddering crunch that shook the ground, throwing Allyso down so hard that the breath was driven from her lungs.
The blade sang on through the air.
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Reviews for "Candle Iron"
Reviewed by jessie
6/6/2002
it was really great sally odgers has a fantastic imagination
Reviewed by Jacqui Duffy
6/6/2002
fantastic book. I felt that it was really in depth but towards the end it lost that depth, it bacame a book where you knew what was going to.happenD
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