Deep Secret
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Deep Secret
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Narrated by:
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Christopher Webster
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Harriet Carmichael
About this listen
A fantasy adventure about saving the universe one world at a time from Diana Wynne Jones. The companion novel to the bestselling The Merlin Conspiracy.
Magids look after all worlds, steer them towards magic, and keep history happening. But Rupert Venables’ mentor has just died, and as the junior magid on earth he has to find a replacement while also trying to find the lost heir of a collapsing empire, worlds away. Rupert interweaves the fate lines to get all the candidates together at a sci-fi fantasy convention, and havoc ensues as they all converge on a very strange hotel, where everything is always linked, the walls keep moving, people are trying to kill him, and nothing is as it seems…a magical, epic story from the Godmother of fantasy.
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Critic reviews
“…Her hallmarks include laugh-aloud humour, plenty of magic and imaginative array of alternate worlds. Yet, at the same time, a great seriousness is present in all of her novels, a sense of urgency that links Jones’s most outrageous plots to her readers’ hopes and fears…”
Publishers Weekly
“Diana Wynne Jones ought to be crowned with coloured garlands because she is the best writer of magical fantasy for children in this country ” Evening Standard
“Diana Wynne Jones could teach Stephen King and JK Rowling a thing or two … [she] has a skill for inserting just the right amount of detail in her written words, leaving you satiated but not stuffed.” SFX
Would you listen to Deep Secret again? Why?
One of DWJ'a best - such a credible fantasy with fully developed characters and plot.Would you listen to another book narrated by Chris Webster and Harriet Carmichael ?
NoWas this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
YesFantastic story
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Great Story!
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This is definitely NOT suitable for children!!
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Setting it at a con for fantasy book lovers was a clever choice. I think what she tried to do was make a slight parody of a world she probably occasionally visits. Some of the parts work quite well for that. However in the way she describes most female characters it falls quite flat. They are either fat (and often not the brightest besides the main character) or slender and beautiful. In general the way she describes fat people is very in line with the 90s way of dehumanizing them. A parody is only fun if the people it is about can laugh along, which is not always the case here.
Besides that it is a very fun book, the main characters all really have their own personality.
The narrators also did quite well, they coordinated well with each other and gave fun voices to a lot of background characters. The different accents and voices really did help keep them apart.
I do have one thing. I really wish the male narrator would have looked into what a Dutch accent sounds like. Because as a Dutch person I have no idea where he got his inspiration for the Dutch character, but it was not from my country.
Good story but some very badly aged descriptions
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Complicated but terrific book, well narrated.
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