Publishers Weekly, October 19th, 1998
Diana Wynne Jones. Greenwillow, $16 (352p) ISBN 0-688-16004-2
On a par with Jones's best (Charmed Life; Fire and Hemlock), this expansive novel manages to be both an affectionate send-up of the sword-and-sorcery genre and a thrilling fantasy adventure in its own right. Something is decidedly rotten in the enchantment-laden world in which teenage fledgling wizard Blade has grown up. Each year, the country's magical agrarian economy is disrupted by the Pilgrim Parties-tourists from a world much like ours, come in search of Tolkienesque adventure. Organized by the sinister and implacably burea...
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