Product Description

This is a Special Edition created exclusively for Barnes&Noble Inc. First printing May 2005. Contains the first four books into one book: The Forest of Silence, The Lake of Tears, City of Rats, and The Shifting Sands.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #291112 in Books
• Published on: 2005
• Format: Special Edition
• Binding: Hardcover
• 555 pages

Customer Reviews

A short, easy good read with a great hype and storyline suited with a unpredicable string of events!
Deltora quest is a wonderful book series equiped with a well written and smooth going plotline that never fails to entertain you, this will keep you reading, and for as long as the series goes you will be glued to the adventures tale. The books starts out with a full explanation of how the Shadow Lord( A ruler hidden in the Dark Shadow Lands, a place unknown to Del Kingdom and the rest of the land of Deltora) To two counties silently wage against each other as the Palace of Del goes along with it's duty, foolish Kings and Queens following the rules and foolishly blinded by a great magic that stops them from helping Del and it's starving people. The beggining of the book offers a great story to help make sense of what you read but you amazingly open your eyes to surprise as the characters watch it all unfold. The Shadow Lord ceases controll of Del and all of Deltora and scatters the 7 gems of the Belt of Deltora accross lands known to be dangerous and impossible to reach. The 3 main characters of the book keep a strong standing personality throughout the enitire set of 4 books, in one excellent put together read full of suspense and goodness and wickedness. Some parts of the Quad I found great was the riddles with the guard, all of the characters showed their intellagence and it was enthrilling! Another was the Nij and Doj chapter, for it was surprising as is just showing how everything you read in this book has a message to another part, so you need to hunt for familiar word or clues to figure out what to do next. In the Bridge Gaurd's riddle about Thaegan, you notice 2 of Thaegans children we're Jin and Jod, and Nij and Doj is Jin and Jod backwords! If you read everything they say backwords the enitre chapter is revealed! I recomend this book for all, old and young. It's clever and excellent.

Go Deltora!
While I realize that the eight set is arriving soon, I still love the convenience of the quad style.

As for the story itself, these are enchanting and should be classics as far as fantasy, any fantasy, is concerned.

Emily Rodda, with her simple-but-tight writing, creates a vivid world of magic and adventure with larger-than-life characters with whom one can still relate and imaginative puzzles and plotlines.

Great introductory fantasy for kids, any fan will continue to like these forever.

My son loves this book
I must say, I and my son are very pleased with this book. Since he received it, he hates to put it down. It arrived in a quick manner and in great shape. The author has really captured that "something" to interest my 8 yr old son. It had been hard to find a book that he would really enjoy, and not put down with lack of interest after the first chapter. He loves the characters in this book. My thanks to Emily Rodda for helping to make my son a more avid reader.