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Amanda Craig is wrong about Alaizabel Cray being Chris Wooding's 'debut', but she's right to identify the realtionship between Storm Thief's main characters as a key element in his latest title's success:
Not everybody likes fantasies which combine dizzying imaginative detail with action-adventure, but for kids who find fiction second-best to PlayStation games, Wooding is ideal. His debut, The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, went about as far as you could go in macabre fantasy without losing a young audience to full-blown horror; but what makes Storm Thief particularly appealing is the relationship between Rail and Moa....
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