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Fforde, Jasper
3 Reviews
(2)
YA
Chronicles of Kazam series.
Powerful wizard the Mighty Shandar is once again threatening the lives of the last dragons. To spare them, Jennifer Strange accepts his challenge to find the Eye of Zoltar, said to be on a forbidding peak in the Cambrian Empire ("the land that health and safety forgot"). Fforde sustains the series' high quality of absurdity, wit, and literary inventiveness. Thoroughly satisfying.
Reviewer: Deirdre F. Baker
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 2015
(2)
YA
Chronicles of Kazam series.
In this sequel to The Last Dragonslayer, foundling Jennifer Strange--acting manager of the Kazam employment agency for sorcerers, soothsayers, and flying carpeteers--must apply her eminently sensible brain and stalwart efficiency to stop the king from commercializing magic. The clever novel is imaginatively energetic, made more so by a gloriously formidable female protagonist.
Reviewer: Deirdre F. Baker
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2013
(2)
YA
Chronicles of Kazam series.
Foundling and indentured servant Jennifer Strange runs Kazam Mystical Arts Management in the absence of its founder. When she learns that she herself is the Last Dragonslayer, all her skills at negotiating product endorsements, bribes, and threats are put to the test. Full of "wizidrical" and literary energy, Fforde's fantasy is smart, funny, and abundantly imaginative in its critique of commercial culture.
Reviewer: Deirdre F. Baker
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2012
3 reviews
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