Customer Reviews

Nightmare's Edge (Echoes from the Edge)

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In complete honesty, I liked the other books in this trilogy better, but I still enjoyed this one overall. On the low points, I felt this one dragged a bit, until the last one hundred pages or so, which seemed to absolute fly by. the other point was that I felt confused through parts of the book trying to remember features and events that had happened to the characters previously in the other two books.



Overall, the series is an incredible use of imagination and imagery. It takes you into a realm of reality that is different from anything a reader has experienced before, and then through out in bits and pieces, the reader is offered a deeper meaning to the entire story. It is creative and leaves one open to ask the right kinds of questions to learn about the ultimate adventure.



I definitely suggest reading the series in order. If you attempt to just read this book, you will be quite lost.

Bryan Davis is my all time favorite writer.He captivates your mind and pulls you into the story.Im fourteen and this book series(Ive read them all) was made for everyone every age.This book is the tops!

My sons have loved Bryan Davis' fiction for years, and have shared his books with friends who do not attend church. His work provides a subtle invitation to explore faith, yet retains excellent quality and strong entertainment value at the same time. I hope he continues to produce YA manuscripts interlaced with spiritual truth.

Review by Jill Williamson

Book three in the Echoes from the Edge series begins with Nathan and Cerulean exploring the dream world in search for Jack and Cerulean's supplicant. But the dream world is a dangerous place for a human. Nathan finds Kelly there and is compelled to answer her pleas for help, despite Cerulean's insistence that she is not the real Kelly. This sets the story into a non-stop adventure with our heroes moving back and forth between Red Earth, Blue Earth, Yellow Earth, the world between worlds, and the dream world. They have very little time to find Nathan's father, find the real Kelly who got lost in the dream world, find Cerulean's supplicant, and play the giant violin again before the three worlds are forever destroyed. Can Nathan do all this and remove the stone of judgment from his heart and truly love?

Wow. I have now read all three Echoes from the Edge books and my brain is still a bit sore. While they left me fully entertained in awe and wonder, I still don't grasp how everything in this multi-dimensional fantasy world works. Were Patar and the supplicants angels and the others demons? Maybe they were beings of Davis' own creation? Still, the imagery Davis created was beautiful and haunting. His characters each needed to face their own fears and trust that God would take care of them. This was the message I most enjoyed. That true love is more that a physical, emotional feeling. True love is sacrifice and forgiveness. They joy this kind of love brings to a life is music indeed. Recommended.

This book has everything the last two books had, just amped up a bit. The headaches are back now worse than ever with the chapter long information dumps; the plot is even more original and surprising; and the utter freakiness of the spaces between dimensions, often visited in both dreams and reality, is even freakier.

But what spoils this book is the fact that everyone seems to get an extra life. The big creepy bad guy can suck your friend's life energy out in the present, but he or she's not really dead because he or she's still alive in the future or past. So it's a simple dimensional hop, and bingo! Back from the dead.

Concluded with an altogether unsatisfying ending, Nightmare's Edge is a disappointing finish to a great series.