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The Great Troll War von Jasper Fforde
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The Great Troll War (2021. Auflage)

von Jasper Fforde

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The final instalment of the Last Dragonslayer Chronicles, demonstrating that with a small band of committed followers, a large tin of resolve and steely determination, almost anything can be achieved . . . Sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange and her sidekick and fellow Orphan Tiger Prawns have been driven to the tip of the UnUnited Kingdoms - Cornwall - by the invasion of the Trolls. Their one defence is a six-foot-wide trench full of buttons, something which the Trolls find unaccountably terrifying (it's their clickiness). Worse than being eaten by Trolls is the prospect of the Mighty Shandar requisitioning the Quarkbeast and using him to achieve supreme power and domination - an ambition that has been four hundred years in the planning and which will ultimately leave the Earth a cold cinder, devoid of all life. Nothing has ever looked so bleak, but Jennifer, assisted by a renegade vegan Troll, a bunch of misfit sorcerers, the Princess (or is she now the ruler?) of the UnUnited (or are they now United?) Kingdoms, and Tiger, must find a way to vanquish the most powerful wizard the world has ever seen, and along the way discover the truth about her parents, herself, and what is in the locked glovebox of her VW Beetle . . .… (mehr)
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Titel:The Great Troll War
Autoren:Jasper Fforde
Info:London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2021.
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Tags:21st century fiction, Author: British, Fantasy, Young adult, Alternate history, Dragons, Series: Chronicles of Kazam, Location: living room, Herefordshire, Acquired in 2021

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I love Jasper Fforde! And this is no exception. I don't know why it took me so long to get to it. There wasn't any positive news for quite a while in this story, but the conclusion was well worth the wait. My only bone to pick was with the footnotes that just referred one to earlier books in the series. I have read them all, but they don't come out frequently and so my memory was not so amazing as to remember what the references meant. I would have liked a little more explanation, but I'm sure it isn't a problem for children who will binge read the series. It is a great fun, plenty of laughs and lots of action. Highly recommend! ( )
  njcur | Feb 22, 2023 |
Unequivocally the last book in the Chronicles of Kazam the story of Jennifer Strange picks up very shortly after The Eye of Zoltar. There is less whimsy as things get more serious and Jennifer has to confront her destiny in order to save her friends from an invasion of Trolls bent on eating everyone and the evil mind behind everything to this point.

Fforde definitely wanted to tie up all the loose ends created in the previous three books as well as throw in some new material (like the subterranes - under-land vehicles forming a "navy" for a land-locked country) so there are a LOT of sub-plots to keep track of and it all gets to feel a little mechanical.

That's not to say there is NO whimsy. At one point Jennifer and friends need to figure out what thing beyond their ability to imagine is the big bad up to. So they enlist the help of a fantasy author who proposes plots based on nursery characters solving crimes, worlds within books, hibernating humans, and a world where your status is based on color perception. When the characters mention that last one sounds different and interesting and wonder if there is any more to it the author replies "Oh, don't you start too".

Its not a bad conclusion to the series. Its just not one of his better efforts either. But maybe it will free Fforde up to focus on High Saffron finally... ( )
  grizzly.anderson | Oct 4, 2022 |
This one is a war book. A jolly Jasper Fford war book, but still, a hiding behind trenches, planning reconnaissance, coordinating forces war book. It's clever, some bits resolve themselves very nicely (the trolls as percentages was brilliant), but The Mighty Shandar remains a very one dimensional bad guy (in fact, it's quite hard to care about any of the characters that much), and the answer to 'how do we ratchet up the sacrifice for the last book' did turn out to be 'Jenny herself, but also the Quarkbeast Again'. Fun for Fforde fans, and the author insert is shamelessly OTT, but not rocking my socks as unmissable. I did love the fact they got worriers instead of warriors, and they turned out to be very useful though! ( )
  atreic | Sep 12, 2022 |
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The final instalment of the Last Dragonslayer Chronicles, demonstrating that with a small band of committed followers, a large tin of resolve and steely determination, almost anything can be achieved . . . Sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange and her sidekick and fellow Orphan Tiger Prawns have been driven to the tip of the UnUnited Kingdoms - Cornwall - by the invasion of the Trolls. Their one defence is a six-foot-wide trench full of buttons, something which the Trolls find unaccountably terrifying (it's their clickiness). Worse than being eaten by Trolls is the prospect of the Mighty Shandar requisitioning the Quarkbeast and using him to achieve supreme power and domination - an ambition that has been four hundred years in the planning and which will ultimately leave the Earth a cold cinder, devoid of all life. Nothing has ever looked so bleak, but Jennifer, assisted by a renegade vegan Troll, a bunch of misfit sorcerers, the Princess (or is she now the ruler?) of the UnUnited (or are they now United?) Kingdoms, and Tiger, must find a way to vanquish the most powerful wizard the world has ever seen, and along the way discover the truth about her parents, herself, and what is in the locked glovebox of her VW Beetle . . .

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