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Summary: For those who liked either Witch Week or Charmed Life...
Review: This book describes how Chrestomanci in "Charmed Life" became the wizard he is, for all of the readers who read that book and wondered what happened before.Christopher Chant, later to be known as Chrestomanci, was born lucky. Instead of the one life that most of us are born with, Christopher Chant was born with nine lives. As if that weren't enough, he also had the ability to travel between worlds and bring things back with him. This book describes the adventures Christopher has as he travels between worlds and fights a group of smugglers who tricked him into stealing things for them in other worlds. Besides discovering a way to defeat the smugglers, Christopher also has to train for the day that he will become Chrestomanci, the wizard who guards the portals between worlds, since only a wizard of nine lives can hold that position.
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Summary: For those who liked either Witch Week or Charmed Life...
Review: This book describes how Chrestomanci in "Charmed Life" became the wizard he is, for all of the readers who read that book and wondered what happened before. Christopher Chant, later to be known as Chrestomanci, was born lucky. Instead of the one life that most of us are born with, Christopher Chant was born with nine lives. As if that weren't enough, he also had the ability to travel between worlds and bring things back with him. This book describes the adventures Christopher has as he travels between worlds and fights a group of smugglers who tricked him into stealing things for them in other worlds. Besides discovering a way to defeat the smugglers, Christopher also has to train for the day that he will become Chrestomanci, the wizard who guards the portals between worlds, since only a wizard of nine lives can hold that position.
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Summary: It is good
Review: This book is cool. If you are reading it for the first time the begining is kind of boring. Just keep reading. The book gets better!
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Summary: One of the best Diana Wynn Jones books
Review: This is another of the Chrestomanci series, chronologically the first. It is the story of Christopher Chant, who has peculiar dreams. When he goes to sleep, he can get up out of bed, round a small corner in his room- and suddenly he is in a moist, foggy, rocky world. Depending on where he climbs in this odd place, he can get to many other fantastic worlds. He has friends in these worlds, among them mermaids and the incarnate form of a goddess. Christopher has told no one about these dreams, and he is thought to be a little bit of a disappointment because he exhibets no magic talent. However, dangerous mishaps begin happening to him at an alarming rate, and finally, after an incident that should have killed him, it is realized that despite his apparant lack of magic, he must be an extremely rare and powerful nine-lived enchanter- which means that he is one of only two people in the world who have the innate ability for world-travel- which is what his "dreams" are. This is one of my very favorite Diana Wynn Jones novels.
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Summary: Great! You'll want to read all the others too!
Review: This is Diana Wynne-Jones at her best. It's a fantastic novel and should be read with all the other Chrestomanci boos, too. If you've read Charmed Life, you'll appreciate this book; it tells you how Chrestomanci in Charmed Life (really Christopher) became Chrestomanci, aswell as explaining the coming of his wife, 'Millie', who was origionally a goddess in another world. It's a little confusing, but a great book.
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Summary: One of my absolute favourite books!
Review: This is the first book of Diana Wynne Jones' that I've read and it got me completely hooked.I re-read it at least twice a year. She's still one of my favourite authors though i'm slightly out of the 9-12 range.(okay, by a few years.)
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Summary: Still my favourite Jones novel
Review: This was the first of the Chrestomanci books I read, and it's still my favorite. Everything about it -- from the fantastic worlds that Christopher explores, to the final battle with The Wraith -- I don't know. It just sums up everything I like about Jones' books. ps. why does the cover art of this edition show Christopher as blond and the Chrestomanci as black haired? Was this early art for Charmed Life or did the artist not read the book?
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