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Beast Quest
The Complete Book of Beasts
A compendium of every known Beast from the series
Every hero needs the Book of Beasts. This must-have handbook is packed with everything a Beast Quest fan needs to know about all the known Beasts featured in the series. Readers will gain secret knowledge, learn incredible facts, and study amazing color pictures. This unique book is a must-have for any Avantian hero.
Every hero needs the Book of Beasts. This must-have handbook is packed with everything a Beast Quest fan needs to know about all the known Beasts featured in the series. Readers will gain secret knowledge, learn incredible facts, and study amazing color pictures. This unique book is a must-have for any Avantian hero.
- GenresFantasy
128 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 2012
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About the author
Adam Blade
857 books213 followersAdam Blade is the house name for the Working Partners Ltd. ghostwriters who write the Beast Quest and Sea Quest series.
Adam Blade is in his late twenties, and was born in Kent, England. His parents were both history teachers and amateur artists, and Adam grew up surrounded by his father’s paintings of historic English battles – which left a lifelong mark on his imagination. He was also fascinated by the ancient sword and shield that hung in his father’s office. Adam’s father said they were a Blade family heirloom.
As a boy, Adam would spend days imagining who could have first owned the sword and shield. Eventually, he created a character – Tom, the bravest boy warrior of them all. The idea for Beast Quest was born.
When Adam grew up and decided that he wanted to be a writer, he was stuck for ideas – until he remembered the old sword and shield, and the imaginary boy he had created when he was young. Adam decided to bring Tom fully to life so that readers could go on the kind of adventures that he always wanted to when he was that age… And still does, even though he’s grown up!
When he’s not writing Beast Quest books, Adam enjoys visiting museums and ancient battle sites. His main hobbies are fencing and football. He also spends a lot of time at home running around after his two exotic pets – a tarantula named Ziggy, and a capuchin monkey named Omar. These little rascals were the inspiration for two of the Beasts that Tom faces on his Quest – Arachnid and Claw.
Sadly, Adam does not have his own Fire-Dragon or Horse-Man. But he really wishes he did!
Adam Blade is in his late twenties, and was born in Kent, England. His parents were both history teachers and amateur artists, and Adam grew up surrounded by his father’s paintings of historic English battles – which left a lifelong mark on his imagination. He was also fascinated by the ancient sword and shield that hung in his father’s office. Adam’s father said they were a Blade family heirloom.
As a boy, Adam would spend days imagining who could have first owned the sword and shield. Eventually, he created a character – Tom, the bravest boy warrior of them all. The idea for Beast Quest was born.
When Adam grew up and decided that he wanted to be a writer, he was stuck for ideas – until he remembered the old sword and shield, and the imaginary boy he had created when he was young. Adam decided to bring Tom fully to life so that readers could go on the kind of adventures that he always wanted to when he was that age… And still does, even though he’s grown up!
When he’s not writing Beast Quest books, Adam enjoys visiting museums and ancient battle sites. His main hobbies are fencing and football. He also spends a lot of time at home running around after his two exotic pets – a tarantula named Ziggy, and a capuchin monkey named Omar. These little rascals were the inspiration for two of the Beasts that Tom faces on his Quest – Arachnid and Claw.
Sadly, Adam does not have his own Fire-Dragon or Horse-Man. But he really wishes he did!
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November 4, 2021
I flipped through this entire book while waiting for someone at the library, so bear with me and my review because I'm neither the target audience for this book, nor am I familiar with "Beast Quest".
I'm also reviewing an edition with library binding so I don't have to deal with the hilariously bad book binding that the physical copies of this book have, judging by a quick scan of this book's Amazon shop page. This is a book that will fall apart if you open it a certain way and it has ruined some children's Christmases. Didn't affect me; just wanted to write this down for reference.
I might be weird by having this thought, but there's something delightful about opening a children's book and finding out that it's part of a long-running children's book series you literally never heard of until just that moment. Logging this on Goodreads is super fun because there's a big #84 next to this book's title. Incredible. I have never heard of Beast Quest but whatever it is, it seems to be quite popular with the kiddies (and has a very competent fan-wiki that I discovered with one google search) and has a big enough audience that it can get little information fan-compendiums like this.
This isn't one of the Beast Quest novels, but my impression of this world from this book is that it's a lot like Deltora Quest but with way more books and more of the focus on the monsters rather than the shiny jewels that the monsters happen to be guarding, with some evil dark wizard creating these monsters because he's bored and that's just what he does with his time. The monsters all have fun designs, some of them cooler than others (it's easy to get excited for a cool dragon, but you kinda lose me when your monster design is just a giant rhino), but all visually striking with nice artwork accompanying all of them.
My personal favorite? The giant crab monster named "Krabb". I'm glad that Krabb is a starring character.
I think I would rate this book higher if A) I knew what Beast Quest even was and was at all emotionally invested in this beyond "monsters neat" and B) the character comments written throughout the compendium weren't so dry and lacking in humor or character flavor (this is less Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and more "your friend telling you in a Discord chat the specific tactics of the newest WoW Patch's raid boss because there's no correct guides on the Internet about it". I have sadly learned nothing about this series other than the main character owns a wolf for some reason? I guess that's neat.
Godspeed little Beast Quest. May you release another 40 books in the future without me knowing about it.
I'm also reviewing an edition with library binding so I don't have to deal with the hilariously bad book binding that the physical copies of this book have, judging by a quick scan of this book's Amazon shop page. This is a book that will fall apart if you open it a certain way and it has ruined some children's Christmases. Didn't affect me; just wanted to write this down for reference.
I might be weird by having this thought, but there's something delightful about opening a children's book and finding out that it's part of a long-running children's book series you literally never heard of until just that moment. Logging this on Goodreads is super fun because there's a big #84 next to this book's title. Incredible. I have never heard of Beast Quest but whatever it is, it seems to be quite popular with the kiddies (and has a very competent fan-wiki that I discovered with one google search) and has a big enough audience that it can get little information fan-compendiums like this.
This isn't one of the Beast Quest novels, but my impression of this world from this book is that it's a lot like Deltora Quest but with way more books and more of the focus on the monsters rather than the shiny jewels that the monsters happen to be guarding, with some evil dark wizard creating these monsters because he's bored and that's just what he does with his time. The monsters all have fun designs, some of them cooler than others (it's easy to get excited for a cool dragon, but you kinda lose me when your monster design is just a giant rhino), but all visually striking with nice artwork accompanying all of them.
My personal favorite? The giant crab monster named "Krabb". I'm glad that Krabb is a starring character.
I think I would rate this book higher if A) I knew what Beast Quest even was and was at all emotionally invested in this beyond "monsters neat" and B) the character comments written throughout the compendium weren't so dry and lacking in humor or character flavor (this is less Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and more "your friend telling you in a Discord chat the specific tactics of the newest WoW Patch's raid boss because there's no correct guides on the Internet about it". I have sadly learned nothing about this series other than the main character owns a wolf for some reason? I guess that's neat.
Godspeed little Beast Quest. May you release another 40 books in the future without me knowing about it.
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