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Sometimes I feel as though I have two distinct blogging selves: the nerdy, YA-bookish half and the laid-back, adrenaline-junkie skydiving half.
I’ve given my skydiving self some good blog time, so I figure I’ll let the YA-bookish self come out to play. I have read a lot of new books in the past few weeks
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Other things by DWJ include, as others have said, The Chrestomanci Series (The Nine Lives of Christopher Chant, Charmed Life, Witch Week and The Magicians of Caprona) and Hexwood. I also liked The Merlin Conspiracy and The Skiver's Guide (not fantasy, but a practical guide to, well, skiving, and still very funny).
She's also written a couple of more "grown-up" fantasy books which are sequential. I thought they were absolutely fantastic but sadly she's not written anymore. They are The Dark Lord of Derkholm and The Year of the Griffin. The premise of the first is absolute genius - a magical land held hostage by someone from a world like ours, with all the inhabitants forced to perform as a features of a tourist attraction, complete with requisite Dark Lord. It's one of my favourite books and I could re-read it forever.
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