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| Original Title: | Conrad's Fate |
| ISBN: | 0060747455 (ISBN13: 9780060747459) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Chrestomanci #5 |
| Characters: | Christopher Chant, Conrad Tesdinic |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Novel (2006) |
Diana Wynne Jones
Paperback | Pages: 400 pages Rating: 4.06 | 9191 Users | 454 Reviews
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Someone at Stallery Mansion is changing the world. At first, only small details, but the changes get bigger and bigger. It's up to Conrad, a twelve-year-old with terrible karma who's just joined the mansion's staff, to find out who is behind it.But he's not the only one snooping around. His fellow servant-in-training, Christopher Chant, is charming, confident, and from another world, with a mission of his own -- rescuing his friend, lost in an alternate Stallery Mansion. Can they save the day before Conrad's awful fate catches up with them?
List Containing Books Conrad's Fate (Chrestomanci #5)
| Title | : | Conrad's Fate (Chrestomanci #5) |
| Author | : | Diana Wynne Jones |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 400 pages |
| Published | : | May 9th 2006 by Greenwillow Books (first published March 2005) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Childrens. Magic |
Rating Containing Books Conrad's Fate (Chrestomanci #5)
Ratings: 4.06 From 9191 Users | 454 ReviewsPiece Containing Books Conrad's Fate (Chrestomanci #5)
Charming as always, Jones here gives us not only what I would call an "early Chrestomanci" story, when Christopher Chant is still a boy, but it's a murder mystery as well! Conrad lives in Series Seven, where he is taken very much for granted by his uncle and mother. Conrad doesn't realize this, however, nor does he realize the web of deceit that surrounds him when his uncle tells him that he needs to work off a debt from a past life . . . by killing someone in this one!Millie is given moreI had forgotten I'd read this before, so I read it again. This time I'm giving it four stars.___________________________This is one DWJ's worse, which is why I'm giving it three stars - really I'd like to give it four, at least. Like The Pinhoe Egg, this lacks the perfection of character and form of the 'real' four Chrestomanci books. It drags at the start and squashes the conclusion into the last chapter, and relies on an unrealistic omission by Anthea to create the plot.Naturally, though, it
3.5* not as fun as the previous two due to less magic presence also i wanted christopher's pov more i thinkending was a little rushed/epilogue was a bit cheap imo but it's nicemy hold for the hate u give came thru so idk if i should start the next one or read both concurrently or what hm
So exciting! Hoo!
Natasha asked me about what I was reading and I tried to explain. That it's alternate universes, some with magic, some with technology, some with both, and the magician in charge of keeping thins in line, and magicians with nine lives, and kinds in boarding schools, and feuding families in Italy, and...well, all of that isn't in this one, but the series is kind of all over the place, wherever an interesting story occurred to her. And there's no big overarching storyline, as there is in Harry
A boy with bad karma searches for the source of it at a magical estate, and stumbles into the company of a young Christopher Chant. This is the first in Chrestomanci book (and, IIRC, the first DWJ book I've read) to be in first person; I don't actively dislike the switch, but nor does it add any particularly distinct narrative voice. The upstairs/downstairs estate setting is lively, and DWJ as always nails the lived details and critical humor which make it work; I wish the final reveals hadn't
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