But, Jones still won me over with her delightful characters, quirky magic, and adept talent at writing meaningful and thoughtful fantasy.Ĭhristopher Chant starts out as a normal boy who doesn't quite understand everything that's going on around him. The story was very slow in places and the ending was very rushed. However, I'll be frank I did not enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed "Charmed Life". Chrestomanci turned the sterotype of old, sagely wizards upside down in the first Chrestomanci book with his dapper attitude and humorous qualities. Grade: A-ĭiana Wynne Jones tells the backstory of everyone's favorite enchanter, Chrestomanci, in "The Lives of Christopher Chant". The images and so vivid and so brilliant. The book itself is just another beautifully written, incredibly clever and imaginative and magical work from Diana Wynne Jones.
My favorite character is Tacroy, who is quite ambiguous, and yet is sort of Christopher's Sirius Black, as the only one who can identify with him as a spirit traveler and understands him. Christopher must determine who is good and who is just trying to use him. Slowly and without realizing it, Christopher falls into darkness, becoming an angry, unkind, and disagreeable child that is breaking the laws of magic. He befriends a similar powerful young person, a Goddess, in another world. Christopher, it is discovered, has nine lives and his so magically powerful that he is destined to become the next Chrestomanci. Soon, Christopher is meeting a young man named Tacroy in the other worlds and running "experiments" for his uncle, smuggling magical supplies back to his own world. He has a cool uncle Ralph that seems the understand him.
Another clever and highly imaginative tale from Diana Wynne JonesĬhristopher is an only child of two parents that constantly bicker, and every night, Christopher travels to other worlds for great adventures.
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