Throughout her career, Diana Wynne Jones enjoyed critical success, which led to her winning several prestigious awards. This was a standalone work, but she also enjoyed great success with several series, including the seven-book Christomanci saga and several collections of short stories. It’s a fun read for everyone, and the more fantasy you’ve read, the more you’ll enjoy it.Diana Wynne Jones is best known today for her 1986 fantasy novel Howl’s Moving Castle, which was initially quietly received but which reached a huge audience after being made into a successful animated movie by Studio Ghibli. I highly recommend Dark Lord of Derkholm. And the climax ties up enough loose ends to be completely satisfying, while still leaving room for a sequel ( Year of the Griffin, which is great fun in its own right). The humor gleefully mocks an entire genre while making it perfectly clear that the author loves the genre all the same. The story gets off to a brisk start and takes numerous unexpected twists and turns without losing its pace at all. All the characters you meet are well-developed, with strengths and flaws, with credible reasons (and credible consequences!) for what they do, with reasons for readers to care about what happens to them.
There are many spots that made me laugh out loud.
Chaos, misrepresentations, humor, accident, and tragedy all build in glorious Diana Wynn Jones fashion to a climactic conflict to save the world in an utterly unexpected way.
His family (sorceress wife and children, both human and griffin) get into the act. Chosen to be the last Dark Lord is the wizard Derk, who specializes in genetics and making new animals, who is widely regarded as good-natured and rather incompetent. It’s finally determined that this year will be the last-Mr. Chesney’s hold on the world leaves its inhabitants little choice. The destruction and expense of these tours, year after year, are ruining the world, but Mr. These parties arrive once a year, full of tourists intent on experiencing everything they think a fantasy world should contain, including a final epic confrontation with a Dark Lord (chosen each year from among reluctant candidates). This parody by Diana Wynn Jones begins with a typical high fantasy world with mythological beasts, noble lords and ladies, etc., but this world has one BIG problem, in the form of “Mr. Cover of “Dark Lord of Derkholm” by Diana Wynne Jones.If you are a fan of the high fantasy genre and possess a sense of humor, then Dark Lord of Derkholm (originally published as The Dark Lord of Derkholm in the UK) is truly a treat.
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