Monday 31 January 2011

The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde

Jennifer Strange is an orphan apprenticed to Kazam, an agency offering the services of witches, wizards and other practitioners of magic.  Once they and magic were all powerful, but those days are gone and magic is fading from the land, these people who once commanded great respect and awe are reduced to rewiring houses and delivering pizza by magic carpet.  Jennifer is only 15 but has ended up running Kazam after the mysterious disappearance of the owner and now has a new apprentice to manage as well as soothing the egos of once great magicians.  But then the magic starts coming back and portents start appearing regarding Jennifer and the last dragon alive, the last magical creature in the land.

A great idea but not as well excecuted as his adult fiction, I do understand it's for children but I expected more.

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