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The DWJ Project: Conrad's Fate
Jul. 17th, 2011 05:32 pmThe people up at Stallery Manor keep "pulling the probabilities" -- manipulating chance to change the world into one that's more favorable to them. The problem is, this causes all kinds of spillover changes, most of which go unnoticed by people elsewhere in the world (things have always been that way, right?), but which are readily apparent to people living in the town of Stallchester. Conrad, a boy of twelve, gets sent up there to become a servant and sniff around for the cause of these problems . . . and also to kill somebody. You see, Conrad has an evil fate: some kind of bad karma hanging around from a past life, when he failed to take out somebody he was supposed to. If he doesn't make good on that now, he'll die before the year is out.
And then things get more complicated when an older boy named Christopher shows up, from another world, looking for his missing friend Millie.
Yes, this is another Chrestomanci book (and I think the only other story that shows us Christopher in his pre-Chrestomanci days). I bore it a bit of a grudge the first time I read it because I wanted MOAR CHRISTOPHER DANGIT, and that isn't this book; I liked it better now that I was reading the book it actually was. Really, what it is could be described as "the Chrestomanci series meets Gosford Park / Downton Abbey;" a lot of the story revolves around the servants-eye view of a grand household, first as vast amounts of effort are spent on keeping three people in style, then as a bunch of guests show up.
The rest of the details go behind the cut.
( Read more... )
Next up, probably Witch Week.
And then things get more complicated when an older boy named Christopher shows up, from another world, looking for his missing friend Millie.
Yes, this is another Chrestomanci book (and I think the only other story that shows us Christopher in his pre-Chrestomanci days). I bore it a bit of a grudge the first time I read it because I wanted MOAR CHRISTOPHER DANGIT, and that isn't this book; I liked it better now that I was reading the book it actually was. Really, what it is could be described as "the Chrestomanci series meets Gosford Park / Downton Abbey;" a lot of the story revolves around the servants-eye view of a grand household, first as vast amounts of effort are spent on keeping three people in style, then as a bunch of guests show up.
The rest of the details go behind the cut.
( Read more... )
Next up, probably Witch Week.
