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Title: The Merlin Conspiracy by Diana Wynne Jones ISBN: 0-06-052318-2 Publisher: Greenwillow Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Merlin Conspiracy
Comment: Do you believe in coincedences? Roddy, Grundo, and Nick (who is from a different world and is accidentally summoned by Roddy) don't. So when the Merlin dies of a heartattack at the worst possible moment they refuse to believe his death is "natural". But who's going to believe a couple of kids? Absolutely no one, until they meet Maxwell Hyde and Romanov, two extremely powerful wizards who finally believe them. But will even their help be enough to take on the new Merlin and everyone helping him?
This is a wonderful book, when I finished reading it I went back to the beginning and read it another two times.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another great book
Comment: I love Diana Wynne Jones' books. They are fun to read, she makes wonderful personalities, and they always makes you feel good, in one way or another. Forget about Harry Potter, she made great magical books long before the Potter-hysteria.
This book is one of her best, along "The tale of time city", "Dogsbody" and a couple of more (but no book can compete with Charmed life, and The dark lord of Derkholm, her best!).
This book has great and interesting characters, a nice story and lots of imagination. You just have to love the wizards house when he's sick, and the city she describes. She has a way of telling a story with both some tragic, dark and bad things, and things that make you happy and feel good. I always have a smile on my face after reading one of her books.
Most of her books are made for a pree-teen or teen reader, but I think more adults should read her. Why read a boring novel about a life like your own, when you can disappear into another world? She has written some books for adult readers, I really recommend them too. They are a little bit more serious, but otherewise just the same, with a fantastic imagination and characters with real depth.
Rating: 4
Summary: Yet another English boy magician book!
Comment: It seems that a lot of authors have sprung on the "English boy who doesn't know he's got magic powers" bandwagon after the success of you-know-who (er, I don't mean Voldemort!). However, Diana Wynne Jones has been writing this sort of thing for a long time and "The Merlin Conspiracy" is one of the better books she's written. Dealing as her books usually do with the many-worlds theory, it begins with one young girl who travels with the King's court in the England of her world (called Blest rather than England), and continues later with Nick, a boy in a different version of England who knows about magic powers but doesn't believe he has any. The story is written in alternating chapters, first one by Roddy (the girl), then one by Nick, and so on.
Where this book differs from some of the more "heavy magic" books is in its humor. A circus elephant gets lost in the paths between worlds and ends up playing a supporting role - the fact that her name is "Mini" seems like forced humor, but it's the only example of forced humor I can remember in the book. (An interesting question: when Mini speaks her name, why does Nick understand it to be "Mini" and not "Minnie"? I'd argue that anyone hearing that word pronounced as a name would visualize the name "Minnie" and not the other word. But this is a minor point [pun intended].)
Anyway, this is an enjoyable a read as I've had in some time. Fans of HP, Artemis Fowl, and the Bartimaeus Trilogy will probably enjoy this, as well as most of Ms. Jones' other works.
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Title: Witch's Business by Diana Wynne Jones ISBN: 006008782X Publisher: Greenwillow Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: Being the Correspondence of Two Young Ladies of Quality Regarding Various Magical Scandals in London and the Country by Caroline Stevermer, Patricia C. Wrede ISBN: 0152046151 Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Power of Three by Diana Wynne Jones ISBN: 0064473597 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 12 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones ISBN: 0812575725 Publisher: Tor Fantasy Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Archer's Goon by Diana Wynne Jones ISBN: 0064473562 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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