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Hexwood

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"All I did was ask you for a role-playing game. You never warned me I'd be pitched into it for real! And I asked you for Hobbits on a grail quest, and not one Hobbit have I seen!"

Hexwood Farm is a bit like human memory; it doesn’t reveal its secrets in chronological order. Consequently, whenever Ann enters Hexwood, she cannot guarantee on always ending up in the same plac...more

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Published August 20th 2002 by Greenwillow Books (first published 1993)

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Jun 30, 2012 C. rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: children-s-young-adults, science-speculative-fiction, own-or-access, fantasy, 2012

I'm pretty sure I wrote somewhere on this site that the interesting thing about fantasy was the way the author set up a new system of rules to the real world and seeing how they chose to play out their scenarios in this new system. Well, that can be interesting, but a large part of what makes Diana Wynne Jones interesting is the way she sets up a system of rules that is so vague that she can pretty much do anything she wants. It's a fact that I've read my traditional favourite of hers, Fire and...more

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Jul 22, 2008 Scurra rated it 5 of 5 stars

I can normally handle DWJ's intricate plots, even the ones with time travel. But this one still makes my head hurt (in a good way.) The twist catches you almost totally by surprise, even when you can see something is coming, and multi-threaded story fits together perfectly if you take the time to step back and look at it carefully.

I can't think of many novels that attempt something this complex, let alone ones classed as "young adult". The fact that the story and characters are also highly engag...more

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May 26, 2011 Nikki rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, children-s-and-ya, arthurian, speculative-fiction, dragons

There's so much going on in Hexwood that I don't even know how to begin reviewing it. It surprised me, several times, without making such leaps that I couldn't see how it got there. It's a complex book, jumping around in time a lot, and with lots of cases of mistaken identity (including people mistaking their own identities). It took me a while to put it all together, but despite that it was also an engaging read, and also not too much of a long one (according to my log, it took me three hours t...more

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Sep 19, 2009 Becky rated it 4 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Woah, this book is trippy!

DWJ is quite ambitious in this one. A Bannus has accidentally been activated at Hexwood Farm. It's a machine that manipulates time and reality in order to act out solutions to a problem, and it co-opts any people that cross into its field.

Because most of our characters are at the mercy of the Bannus, their perception of reality is highly altered. They never know quite what has happened to them, and events occur out of order, especially at first. So, yeah, it's all a bit...more Woah, this book is trippy!

DWJ is quite ambitious in this one. A Bannus has accidentally been activated at Hexwood Farm. It's a machine that manipulates time and reality in order to act out solutions to a problem, and it co-opts any people that cross into its field.

Because most of our characters are at the mercy of the Bannus, their perception of reality is highly altered. They never know quite what has happened to them, and events occur out of order, especially at first. So, yeah, it's all a bit postmodern, which Jones uses to talk about some important postmodern topics: power, agency, and injustice.

As the controlling element of the plot, the Bannus is an author figure in its little world. So it's quite appropriate that this is one incredibly intertextual novel. First of all, much of the plot is quietly adapted from The Tempest. Not just any version of the Tempest, mind you, but a post-colonial reading of the Tempest overlaid with Forbidden Planet and with a splash of As You Like It for good measure (because As You Like It is after all The Tempest with less plot and more jokes.) Prospero and Ariel/Caliban are everywhere you look, Antonio is Reigner One, Miranda has become young Hume, and the island becomes Hexwood (or the Forbidden Planet Earth, rather interestingly.) I don't imagine Jones expects very many readers to notice the similarities, but she does draw her source material from the best.

There are also explicit references: a somewhat tongue-in-cheek Grail Quest, some Arthur and Beowulf, a couple Hamlet references, and an Alice in Wonderland bit, for those of us keeping track at home. The Bannus, we learn, has had a library at its disposal, so it too uses the best. Basically it gets a big A+ from a English major's standpoint.

From a reader's standpoint, it's also quite a good book. Jones for the most part handles all this wackiness quite deftly. The plot requires a bit of patience at first, but by the end it's a page-turner. Most of the characters are pretty strong and likable, which is impressive because the surreal mechanism of the plot is between us and them all the time, and because we jump around between brains quite a lot in order to keep abreast of what is happening. I did feel, nevertheless, a bit distanced at times from the heart of the novel, because the characters' identities and motivations kept coming into question - Hume especially was perplexing. Then there is the usual Jonesian expanse of elaborate minor b-plot, which was occasionally WTF-ish, although still entertaining.

What did really like was how clear the themes were by the end - it made a really strong statement about the misuse of power and how it affects both disenfranchised individuals and those who try to restore a balance of power.

A strong and ambitious novel!(less)

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Jan 11, 2009 Annie rated it 3 of 5 stars

While reading Laura Miller's essay about fantasy and Narnia, I had a sudden urge to read some Dianna Wynne Jones. I have read absolutely everything by her I can get my hands on before, so this is my second time around "Hexwood."

It's a bit messy, but the ideas are interesting enough to keep me hanging on the edge. It's a complex narrative, based on the assumption that reality is easily bent and none of the characters are who they think they are, or that they are where they think they are and that...more

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Apr 22, 2013 Dark-Draco rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, favorites

This is the first book I have read by this author and I loved it!!

There is something weird going on in the Hexwood estate. People keep arriving and disappearing through the iron gates, never to be seen coming back out. Ann, ill and bored, watches the comings and goings from her bedroom window, until she feels compelled to enter the place herself. What she finds is a wood that seems bigger than she remembers, with waterfalls, castles, knights and dragons. It also seems unfixed in time and she nev...more

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Jun 18, 2012 Lainey rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

There's really no typical DWJ book. I don't think I've read half of her published novels but I think I can pretty much say she could have spun a tale out of anything and it would be wonderful.

Take this book for example: there's a machine (or computer, although it never uses that term) that given a scenario, it tries to work out each possible outcome of that scenario to come to a correct decision (kind of like how the chess-playing computer Deep Blue works).
The machine is called a Bannus and the...more

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Nov 28, 2010 Laura rated it 4 of 5 stars

Hexwood: really frelling smart. One of those books I keep seeing more in the longer I think about it. Sort of startling that it’s Young Adult Fiction; way smarter than the vast number of books we read in my reading group. I suspect if I was a little more educated, I’d see a whole lot more in it.

We start with a young woman who has the flu and imaginary friends. Confined to her bed, she sees all these mysterious trucks driving up to an old farm, all these odd people going in, and no one ever leav...more

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Dec 15, 2009 Jennifer Uhlich rated it 4 of 5 stars

i'm a pretty big fan of dwj. any list of books that have had monumental impacts on me would have to include fire and hemlock; i read it when i was about 13 or 14 and have since returned to f & h several times--first teasing out the ending, then, as i grew older, figuring out why it's such an uneasy mix of ya and adult fiction.

hexwood didn't have the same effect, though i think the fat of 20+ extra years is what's keeping me from slipping into those skinny pants of starry-eyed obsession, not...more

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Nov 02, 2009 Nic rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Sep 08, 2009 Anna rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I had never heard of Hexwood before I picked it up at the library a couple of days ago, but I’m glad I grabbed it off the shelf. This book really has a little bit of everything in it: time travel, mythology, alternate realities, mind reading, magic, knights, kings and queens, adventures, etc., etc. It’s really hard to place it in any one genre at all. And it’s really hard to talk about the book without feeling like I’m giving too much away, but I’ll do my best.

As I was reading this book – I’m no...more I had never heard of Hexwood before I picked it up at the library a couple of days ago, but I’m glad I grabbed it off the shelf. This book really has a little bit of everything in it: time travel, mythology, alternate realities, mind reading, magic, knights, kings and queens, adventures, etc., etc. It’s really hard to place it in any one genre at all. And it’s really hard to talk about the book without feeling like I’m giving too much away, but I’ll do my best.

As I was reading this book – I’m not going to lie – there were a lot of times when I was starting to feel really frustrated. Before I quite understood what Jones was trying to do with the story, I was feeling very, very confused by the way the story bounced around. The idea of time travel isn’t really spoken about at first, and so Jones just kind of throws you into one random scene followed by another, not really explaining what she is doing. I was so lost! I can’t even tell you, haha. However, if you just stick with it, it’s really worth finding out how everything ties together in the end. I felt like the techniques that Jones used were very daring, especially for a YA novel, but she definitely managed to pull it off. I was impressed. It reminded me a lot of Vonnegut’s technique in Slaughterhouse Five.

I think to fully appreciate everything that happened in this book, I will have to go back and reread it. There are so many twists and turns in the plot. And not everyone is who they appear to be! I really wish I could say more in this review without ruining everything for someone who may want to read the book in the future. It’s so hard to discuss anything without revealing too many of the surprises.

Long story short, the book is worth the headache you might get in the first half, trying to understand what’s going on. I almost had to take each scene as like its own short story, trying to force myself to pay attention to the scenes rather than where the novel as a whole was trying to take me.(less)

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Jun 04, 2009 Amy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, read-in-2009, young-adult

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The five Reignors have ruled the universe for thousands of years. Now, on a tiny uncivilized planet far from the political center of the galaxy, a maintenance technician has started up a long-forgotten machine. This machine, called a Bannus, was designed as a decision making tool. It uses the people in it's sphere to contemplate a programmed scenario; the more people in it's field, the more possibilities. It sifts through each possibility until it reaches the best choice. The Reignors are despar...more

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Mar 07, 2013 Anastasia rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, ya, rereads, sci-fi

I’m not an actual speed reader but I sometimes do skim through pages if I want to get quickly to a certain scene or whatever. I must have done that the first time I read Hexwood, because if I’d been paying proper attention I think I would have understood it better. Or maybe it just takes more than one read-through to pick up all the little details! Who knows– I think Hexwood is probably Diana Wynne Jones’ trickiest book, not least because she refuses to spell things out in big infodumps.

Diana Wy ...more

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Apr 15, 2013 Nimue Brown rated it 4 of 5 stars

While in theory this would be a young adult fantasy/sci fi sort of story, there's a complx plot and plenty to keep an older reader engaged. Lots of twists and surprises, such that talking about the plot without spoiling it is very difficult indeed. There is, however, a wood in here that made me think of Robert Holdstock, which was lovely, and there's a lot about what it means to be human, what defines us, how much choice we have in who we are. I found it difficult to put down, the characters and...more

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Jun 25, 2012 Ruby rated it 4 of 5 stars

I am a big lover of Diana Wynne Jones, so I began this with some expectations.

The reader is first introduced to the book via a transmission to the controllers of the galaxy from planet Earth regarding a strange machine that seems to be causing some havoc. The book then switches over to Ann, a girl who manages to get herself caught in the havoc.

In typical Diana Wynne Jones fashion, the true plot line of the book takes some time to unravel and tie together. I was a little confused as to what was r...more

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Feb 20, 2011 Lis Carey rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: f-sf

Ann Stavely is a girl in England, who watches the gate of the Hexwood Farm housing estate from her bedroom window, and sees people enter and not return. Vierran is a young woman of a very different, and distant world, who's about to be dragged off by Reigner One, senior of the five rulers of her world, on a mission to a small world which is the source of the most valuable substance in existence, flint--a mission on which three of the five other reigners have already gone, and from which they hav...more

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Jul 30, 2009 Vicki rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: borrowed, fantasy, sci-fi

An enjoyable read which mixes fantasy and sci-fi elements together. The book centres around a mystical ancient machine called the Bannus, which can create a field of warped reality that pulls people in to play out different scenarios.

The book features castles, knights and dragons, but also space travel, aliens and the rulers of the galaxy.

Its a really interesting story with loads of twists and turns, however it can come off a bit rambling at times with no strong backbone of plot to tie tie every...more

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Apr 11, 2011 Charlotte English rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy

The events of this book are told out of sequence, and yet they are laid out in chronological order. Sounds odd? This is a decidedly odd book, in a fascinating and absorbing way.

Early in the story we meet Ann, a teenager recovering from a long illness. Bored of lying in bed, Ann adjusts her bedroom mirror so she can see the goings-on at the Hexwood Farm Estate opposite her street. And the goings-on are very strange indeed. All manner of peculiar people go in - and none of them come out. As soon...more

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Jan 01, 2012 Zeborah rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, women-authors, young-adult, 2012

I always feel like I ought to appreciate Diana Wynne Jones' books more than I do. I do love the complexity of the situation and the sinister atmosphere - she does a fantastic sinister atmosphere, and here she also does brilliant segues from 'reality' to 'fantasy', especially on the dragon's introduction.

But things get wrapped up so very tidily, every piece of the jigsaw clicked into place; and with a touch of the style that she has in some books, which I think of as her "I'm writing in small wor...more

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Sep 15, 2011 Jenn rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

If you dropped and broke a mirror that fractured into a hundred different pieces and then held up a book to read through the mirror backwards, that would give you an idea of what Hexwood is like. The story starts off in fits and bursts and is so confusing and yet so intriguing that you can't help but to plow on through. By the middle of the book there is some sense as to what's going on and, like the characters in the story, the Bannus will pull you in too. I'm so glad I stuck with this even tho...more

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Mar 10, 2012 Joseph Glass rated it 5 of 5 stars

For me, Hexwood was a beautiful spell of a story. The order of events in the book was at times convoluted and non-linear, which some people complain about, but for me it was captivating. Although some aspects of Hexwood are disconcerting (for both the reader and the characters) the situations and bending of reality bring out the deeper layers of personality each individual carries. I've noticed in many books that characters are too often boxed-in by their situations. You see hints that they have...more

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May 02, 2012 Skye Nathaniel rated it 2 of 5 stars

I sought out and purchased Hexwood after finding it suggested as a good example of a story that unfolds like a puzzle. I enjoy unconventional literature that requires nontrivial effort in piecing together the narrative. Unfortunately, while Hexwood definitely falls into this category of fiction, it is a poor effort that I would not recommend either to the young-adult audience for which it was written or to adults looking for an interesting labyrinth of a plot.

Hexwood's central conceit is that a...more I sought out and purchased Hexwood after finding it suggested as a good example of a story that unfolds like a puzzle. I enjoy unconventional literature that requires nontrivial effort in piecing together the narrative. Unfortunately, while Hexwood definitely falls into this category of fiction, it is a poor effort that I would not recommend either to the young-adult audience for which it was written or to adults looking for an interesting labyrinth of a plot.

Hexwood's central conceit is that a machine whose purpose is to repeatedly test the outcomes of running a given set of elements through an infinite variety of scenarios has run amuck and threatens to engulf more and more of the world in its expanding game space. Although this could be a somewhat entertaining (if thinly veiled) metafictional allegory for authorship, the book has no such intention but instead plays the premise straight. In fact, for the longest time, the idea of the machine seems to serve merely as a license to depict whatever arbitrary events the author desires—a license of which she takes little imaginative advantage, mostly retreading clichéd fantasy tropes that, in fact, do not become subversive or more interesting in any way from the knowledge that they are illusory.

The first hundred pages are a chore, a series of time-skipped scenes vaguely designed to provide purposefully unrevealing glimpses of strange phenomena with inadequately clued rules surrounding carefully ill-defined characters in a terribly bland forest setting. The reader is insufficiently tantalized by the mysteries of the book's first third because the actors, setting, and circumstances lack for compelling detail and momentum.

There is a cartoonish aspect to the vague sci-fi wizardry; this may be appropriate to the young-adult audience, but it is not much to my taste. The characters act like they are concerned with the rules of performing magic, but the story's premise essentially provides an unlimited source of supernatural creation that undermines the restrictions which some characters impose upon themselves for reasons that are never entirely clear. The prose itself is nothing special; depictions of characters' thoughts and feelings are nakedly and coldly expository most of the time. The author's approach to characterization is generally not engaging.

When the story's science-fiction frame finally begins to disclose the identities of these people, the effect is not one of grasping newfound comprehension but rather simple relief that something is, at long last, actually happening. After the turn, the field of the story rapidly telescopes, but this payoff accomplishes nothing that is worth the cold, wasted space of the long first act.

Hexwood is indeed the narrative puzzlebox that I was promised, but—and I am loath to say this as an admirer of books featuring experimental narrative structures—it is a failure of storytelling due to the omniscient narrator's capricious lack of interest in engaging the reader for so long. The book is not so much ill-conceived as it is poorly designed; the mysteries of the story neither require nor are improved by keeping the reader in the dark for so long.

I would be interested in reading a story that seeks to manipulate the reader through layered and hidden roles and events, but, because the content here fails to justify or make good use of that kind of form, Hexwood comes off seeming vapid, pretentious, and even sadistic. It is confusing for confusion's sake; a pointless book that pretends to be more clever than it is and that does not respect the reader's time.(less)

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Mar 24, 2013 Jenna rated it 5 of 5 stars

I hate being asked, "what's that book about?" whenever I'm reading in public. And if I were asked what Hexwood is about, I don't know how I would respond. Because it's pretty much about aliens who time travel and use magic, and along the way meet robots, dragons, and knights of the round table. Oh, and the main character hears voices to top it all off.

Sounds overwhelming and hard to pull off, but really it all pieces together nicely. It's definitely very confusing (most of the characters don't...more

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Jan 02, 2009 JaNette rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fun-fantasy

Here is a book where the twist and turns are so fun, surprising and confusing that I had to read it twice to figure out what really happened and in what order----sure that doesn't sound fun until your read it---it starts out normal and really turns it around---I love how Diana Wynne Jones' plots surprise you almost every time and I haven't read a book of her's I haven't liked yet. :)
Her books hover around a 4th grade reading level, though there are some easier and most of them refer to other wo...more

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Apr 04, 2011 Lorelei rated it 3 of 5 stars

Recommended to Lorelei by: Laura

Shelves: sf

A delightful and somewhat challenging book. For those of us who have trouble with memory this was something of a puzzle book, but it eventually all becomes (somewhat) clear. The characters are fun. I found myself, especially in the last third, torn between wanting to keep reading and find out what happens next, and wanting to take more time and have it last longer. Finding out what happens next came first. I thought the ending was just a wee bit weak. I have no other experience (that I can recal...more

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Dec 21, 2011 Mandi rated it 5 of 5 stars

This quote from the book is the best explanation I can give for why this book is so complicated to describe:
"'[It] would appear to take any situation and persons given it, introduce them into a field of theta-space, and then enact, with almost total realism, a series of scenes based on these people and this situation. It does this over and over again, portraying what would happen if the people in the situation decided one way and then another. I deduce it was designed to help people make decisio...more This quote from the book is the best explanation I can give for why this book is so complicated to describe:
"'[It] would appear to take any situation and persons given it, introduce them into a field of theta-space, and then enact, with almost total realism, a series of scenes based on these people and this situation. It does this over and over again, portraying what would happen if the people in the situation decided one way and then another. I deduce it was designed to help people make decisions.'
'Then it plays tricks with time," Ann said.
'Not exactly," said Yam. "But I do not think it cares what order the scenes are shown in.'"

But even that makes it sound more confusing, and yet in some ways more straightforward, than the plot really is. The reader doesn't see exact scenes repeated with different decisions made, but the characters know that some things have happened before, and sometimes they experience events in a different order than other characters. Pretty much all of the characters have two names (and some have three or four). DWJ is best known as a writer of fantasy, but there's sci-fi in this, too. She also draws on myth, specifically (view spoiler). I'm not sure if that's actually a spoiler or not, since I'm not familiar with it in the level of detail she uses, but maybe if you are, you might be able to figure out some things before they're revealed to the characters themselves (which doesn't happen until the last 20 pages).

I realize that this review doesn't really tell you anything about what the book is about, but... I just don't know how to explain it!
If you like Diana Wynne Jones at all, I'd definitely recommend this one. If you like books with intricate plots, you should give this one a try. (I found myself flipping back through the pages to reread passages that, in hindsight, seemed to be such obvious hints as to what was really going on... I am amazed by her ability to give so many hints and yet still keep you guessing until the end!)(less)

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Jul 24, 2011 Jen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, teenage

Sci-fi fantasy novel. Strange things happen at Hexwood Farm, when Ann enters its wood and discovers that there is another world inside its environs. She meets the mysterious Mordion, who seems to be a man from another planet. When they create the boy, Hume, they are bound together in caring for him as he grows up, and learn the strange history of Hexwood. A blend of sci fi, with an intriguing twist on the tale of Arthur and Merlin. Even Ann discovers that she is not the young English girl that s...more

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Jan 19, 2013 Michelle rated it 5 of 5 stars

Fantastically told story that weaves several different storylines (realities, really) together. I've read this book several times, and every time I love it just as much. For me, the mix of sci-fi and a sort of "fantasy" or "legend/myth" feel is just awesome. I really love the way Jones brings the separate story strands together into one big "oh my gosh, I see where you were going with this!" moment! (I'm not one to try to predict where books or stories are going, as I enjoy the journey of discov...more

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Jan 08, 2013 Lauren rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I wasn't sure about this book when I began it. Diana Wynne Jones books for an older audience seem to have a very different tone to her books for younger people. At first, it reminded me of "A Sudden Wild Magic", which I didn't greatly enjoy. But soon enough, I was swept up in the sheer oddness of this story and the various mysterious characters who inhabit it. The twist was well executed (I didn't really see it coming) and it managed to bring the whole thing together for an interesting and satis...more

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Nov 10, 2012 Mandy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Wow...I'm left speechless, once again, by one of Diana Wynne Jones' books. Not quite sure how to describe this one, but I'll give it my best shot. It's a complicated, fantastic story with lots of fantasy and science fiction elements, and a few mythological references thrown in for good measure. The first part of the book, it's easy to feel like you're missing something, because you are. But don't worry, and keep reading, because it all comes together in an incredible, though unbelievably complex...more

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