Legend of Zelda: The Edge and The Light

by Queenie Chan

The once-bountiful kingdom of Hyrule is in a crisis. It has been plagued by poor harvests, natural disasters, and now a missing Princess Zelda - Queen Regent to the throne. Into the fray wanders Link, a former champion of Hyrule who vanished over 10 years ago under mysterious circumstances he refuses to speak of. Just what is the cause of all this unrest? Find out in this COMICS-PROSE story!

*NB. This story is a mix of comics and prose (hence the term comics-prose), and isn't meant to be read like a conventional prose story.

312 pages, ebook

First published August 20, 2013

About the author

Queenie Chan was born in Hong Kong in 1980, and migrated to Australia when she was six years old. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, but didn’t follow that career path due to graduating in 2002, in the middle of the dot-com bust. In 2004, she began drawing a 3-volume mystery-horror series called “The Dreaming” for LA-based manga publisher TOKYOPOP. To date, it has been translated into multiple languages.

She has since collaborated on several single-volume graphic novels with best-selling author Dean Koontz, as prequels to his “Odd Thomas” series of novels. After that, she worked on Small Shen, the prequel to Kylie Chan’s “White Tiger” Chinese fantasy series.

She is currently living in Sydney, Australia, and is working on a series of 8 short ghost stories, titled “The Man with the Axe in his Back”. It will be out as e-books in both prose and comics-prose format in August 2014.

Reviews

[Grant Sherman]

Great book, it was some really good fan fiction. I'm sad now that I'm read the whole series. Links story with princess zelda is awesome.

[Blitzybiscuit · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was pretty good!(I usually try to avoid fan-fiction but I was pleasantly surprised with this one) I thought Link and Zelda had some great moments together, and I thought that the plot was fairly compelling. While none of this is cannon, I thought the author did a great job of coming up with their own origin story for Hyrule. Overall, very pleased. Also, I liked the combo of prose and comics, very cool!

[Faye W. · Rating 1 out of 5]

I almost NEVER don't finish a book, but I couldn't bring myself to finish this one. The writing was too strange, beyond the mix of chunks of text and pictures with caption bubbles. But when the author changed from third person to first person without any reason, I gave up. I'm really sad because I love the Legend of Zelda games.