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A long time ago magic faded away, leaving behind only yo-yos, the extremely useful compass-pointing-to-North enchantment and the spell that keep bicycles from falling over. Things are about to change. Magical power is on the rise and King Snodd IV of Hereford has realised that he who controls magic controls almost anything. One person stands between Snodd and his plans for power and riches beyond the wildest dreams of avarice. Meet Jennifer Strange, sixteen-year-old acting manager of Kazam, the employment agency for sorcerers and soothsayers. With only one functioning wizard and her faithful assistant 'Tiger' Prawns, Jennifer must use every ounce of ingenuity to derail King Snodd's plans. It may involve a trip on a magic carpet at the speed of sound to the Troll Wall, the mysterious Transient Moose, and a powerless sorceress named Once Magnificent Boo. But one thing is certain: Jennifer Strange will not relinquish the noble powers of magic to big business and commerce without a fight.
- Sales Rank: #2362057 in Books
- Published on: 2011-11-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.14" h x 8.03" w x 5.28" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 320 pages
Review
'Highly recommended. Very funny' -- Independent on THE LAST DRAGONSLAYER '[Fforde's] ripping yarn of magic in decline mashes up the usual spells-and-beasts motif with a satire on corporate cash and tabloid values.' -- i on THE LAST DRAGONSLAYER 'This year's grown-up JK Rowling' -- Sunday Times 'True literary comic genius' -- Sunday Express
About the Author
Jasper Fforde traded a varied career in the film industry for staring out of the window and chewing the end of a pencil. He lives and works in Wales and has a passion for aviation. Visit Jasper's website, www.jasperfforde.com, find him on Facebook, www.facebook.com/jasperffordebooks, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/jasperfforde.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Less confusing, and full of fun
By Kathy Davie
Second in the Last Dragonslayer fantasy series for children revolving around Jennifer Strange and the very odd inhabitants of Zambini Towers in Hereford in the Kingdom of Snodd.
My Take
This one was much easier to read than The Last Dragonslayer (Last Dragonslayer, #1)! And just as nonsensical. I love it. Kids will love it. It's a soap opera of fun as Fforde pokes away at our love for gawking, greed, people in charge, flying carpets, corruption, orphanages as well as the more positive traits of humanity such as love, loyalty, and putting one's best foot forward. I loved the snark once Prawns comes back to earth. That Lady Mawgon is somethin' else! All I can say is, it's a good thing that Jennifer is in charge!
I cracked up when Jennifer answered the phone "Pinnochio's Pizzas" and totally flustered Blix.
I do wonder how Fforde keeps coming up with such silly ideas, names, and yet makes it all work.
Oh man, Zambini has some shocking bits of info for Jenny...!
For such a lighthearted piece, it does get intense as Jennifer desperately searches for a way to survive the Friday morning challenge.
Okay, reading the chapter, "The end of the story", I got the impression this was, well, the end of this series. Fforde tells us all sorts of epilogue-y kind of stuff and it makes sense that this is the end. Then I turned the page and Jennifer Strange will be in The Return of Shandar . So, what was all that about...?
The Story
Slaying the last dragon in The Last Dragonslayer (Last Dragonslayer, #1) created Big Magic, a kickstart to begin to bring magic itself back into the world. Unfortunately, it hasn't made things any easier at Kazam, and Jennifer has pinned her prayers on their bridge restoration project.
Prayers that aren't being heard once Blix gets down and dirty with the help of the king, who won't stop trying to pervert the Great Zambini's vision for magic. Meanwhile, Jennifer is desperate to find the Great Zambini, and Kevin's predictions just aren't well, that helpful. Their two best wizards have fallen afoul of Dibble's Coils while the rest are being hounded by King Snodd and his Chief Advisor.
The Characters
Jennifer Strange is a foundling, gadzooks! Kazam is the magical corporation that the Great Zambini manages. Well, he used to. He disappeared some months ago, and the now-seventeen-year-old Jennifer has been its acting manager ever since. Horton "Tiger" Prawns, Jennifer's assistant, is the latest purchased foundling.
The Kazam wizards include:
Perkins Perkins is about to test for his magic license. He also wants to date Jennifer. The Amazing Dennis "Full" Price and his brother, David "Half" Price, are "famous as the most unidentical twins on record. The obnoxiously rude Lady [Daphne] Mawgon gets between a rock and, well, a rock. Wizard Gareth Archibald Moobin is experimenting with teleportation. Kevin Zipp is their precog. His Royal Highness Prince Omar Smith Arkwright Ben Nasil is one of their carpeteers (Owen of Rhayder is the other), and Omar is second in line to the Duchy of Portland. The Transient Moose is a something of a holographic image of a moose. Patrick of Ludlow is their Heavy Lifter. The Mysterious X.
iMagic
Conrad Blix, sorry, the All Powerful Blix, is the sneaky, conniving head of Industrial Magic, renamed iMagic (which "makes it more hip and current"). He has plans to expand his enterprise; and, the king has appointed him Court Mystician. His fellow witches include the Truly Bizarre Tchango Muttney, Dame Corby, and Samantha Flynt, who is a student.
The king's crew
King Snodd IV is a greedy, stupid, pernicious prat. Fortunately, his wife, Queen Mimosa, is exactly the opposite. The Spoilt Royal children are His Royal Petulantness the Crown Prince Steve and Her Royal Odiousness Princess Shazza. We actually discover that the King's Useless Brother, who is much more stupid than the king, has a real name: His Eminence Ruprecht Sawduzt Snodd (almost makes UB look good). Lord Tenbury is one of the king's most trusted advisers and extremely clever, the Useless Brother's business partner (dang it), and pretty much without morals. Detective Norton and Sergeant Villiers are corrupt cops.
Miss Ann Shard, a.k.a., Miss D'Argento, is a nut. She talks about herself in the third person, and she has something up her sleeve. Mother Zenobia used to do magic, but hasn't in decades. She's the mother superior at the orphanage, the Sisterhood of the Blessed Lady of the Lobster. Miss Boolean Smith, a.k.a., the Magnificent Boo, was an incredible witch in her day. Before she was kidnapped and traumatized. Now she works as the Beastmaster (with a special love for quarkbeasts) and the magic adjudicator. Lieutenant Colonel Sir Reginald George Stamford Block-Draine is relentless in hunting down a lone quarkbeast. The Mighty Shandar is the most powerful wizard ever. He comes back to life for a few minutes every few years.
The Cover
The cover is quite fantastical with its torn silver metallic background revealing a collage of the story's events from Jennifer and Prince Omar sailing through the air on the magic carpet, blocks of stone floating in air, Jennifer's Volkswagen perched on top of the completed bridge, fireworks exploding, and the claw of a quarkbeast (?) gripping the edge.
The title is perfect, for a select few do indeed hear The Song of the Quarkbeast. And live!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
A great book, a fun series for YA and adults
By manly-but-bookish
With The Song of the Quarkbeast, Jasper Fforde continues his young adult series that he began with The Last Dragonslayer. Having fulfilled the prophecy that she was unwillingly a part of in that book, Jennifer Strange, the teenage acting manager of Kazam, an employment agency for sorcerers, now finds herself once again at the center of events that could change the Ununited Kingdom forever.
Ever since the events of Dragonslayer, the level of magic that exists in the world has been on the rise. The sorcerers who work for Kazam can tell that the source of their powers is increasing, but they're not the only ones to have taken notice. King Snodd IV has realized what's happening as well, and he knows that if he can control magic, he can control everything. Only Jennifer Strange stands between Snodd and his plans.
The Song of the Quarkbeast and the Dragonslayer series as a whole are great and both young adults and their parents will enjoy reading them. I think too often when writers, who normally write for an adult readership, make the transition to writing for a younger audience, they tend to inadvertently insult younger readers by "dumbing it down." Fforde doesn't do that. These books are just as intelligent as his Tuesday Next and his Nursery Crimes books.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
another hit for Fforde (pun intended)
By Reality tourist
Mr. Fforde, captured my reading loyalty with the Thursday Next novels. His clever puns and plays on words while intergrating the "ridiculousness" found in governmental red tape and big business not only offers a chance to laugh but also realize what silliness we all put up with in the "real" world.
He is truly unique in writing style.
This is the second in his dragonslayer series and it is quiet delightful. While written for younger readers, adults will find it highly entertaining and will understand the sublteties mentioned previously.
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