![]() ![]() One of these possible replacements is Maree Malory, an aggressively compassionate, prickly and impulsive student vet. ![]() The second, is the death of Rupert’s mentor Stan, and the job of finding a replacement magid. The first, is the assassination and death of the emperor of the world spanning Koryphonic empire, and the need to find where the ever secretive emperor secreted his heir before the empire descends into civil war. Rupert had thought he’d been doing a fairly reasonable job, until two major problems drop into his lap. Rupert Venables is a magid, one of a group of highly powerful magicians responsible for seeing that the multiverse runs smoothly, and that worlds progress from Naywards, negatively inclined and suspicious or unaware of magic, to Ayewards. Happily now that I am grown up (or so people tell me), and said ogre has been metaphorically slain thanks to modern technology, I can not only read all the Wynne Jones I want, but also have the fun of doing so along with my lady, who I am pleased to say is now a total convert. ![]() ![]() Diana Wynne Jones is an author I really wish I’d been able to read more of while growing up, but was unfortunately unable to due to the ever present ogre of my childhood: lack of availability in audio. ![]()
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