Hexwood (School & Library Binding)

by Diana Wynne Jones (Author)

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School & Library Binding: 446 pages
Publisher: Topeka Bindery; Harper Trophy ed edition (September 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0613684303
ISBN-13: 978-0613684309
Product Dimensions: 17.7 x 10.3 x 3.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 282 g

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From Publishers Weekly

Somewhere in the middle of this rather bewildering novel, its heroine, Ann, realizes that she is not--as she and the reader had thought--the 12-year-old daughter of suburban London grocers, but is in fact a 20-something rebel from another galaxy. Ann (whose name is really Vierran) has come to earth as the unwilling handmaiden of the evil Reigner Three who, along with four other Reigners, controls most of the known universe. An ancient and powerful machine known as the Bannus has been reactivated and poses a threat to the Reigners' rule. Vierran must join forces with Mordion, the Reigner Servant, in order to keep from becoming a pawn in Reigner One's dastardly scheme to breed future Servants. These are just a few of the plot-lines that come together in a confusing finale that invokes the legends of King Arthur as well as the gods and heroes of Northern Europe. Certain moments in the muddled narrative will reward the persevering reader: Mordion's long-repressed recollection of his sad and brutal childhood possesses a spine-chilling intensity. But on the whole, Jones is not at her bewitching best. Ages 12-up.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From School Library Journal

Grade 6-9-Futuristic, virtual-reality technology melds with the realm of Faerie to liberate the galaxy from the corrupt Reigners who have controlled it for the past 1,000 years. Set in an English village in 1992, the novel's web of events is catalyzed by a bored employee of Hexwood Farm, a secret outpost of the interplanetary rulers. He tampers with the Reigners' old, computerlike machine, the Bannus, hoping it will cough up a hobbit-and-dragon role-playing game. But the Bannus's game is for real, and it sucks the players it chooses-including transcendental souls like Arthur, Merlin, and Fitela-into its field of influence and forces them to act (without changing their natures) within its own scenarios. Unleashed in the Wood (which has power of its own, being a part of the eternal, enchanted forest), the machine is able to stage a battle to dethrone the unrightful Reigners and to choose the best possible new ones. The battlefield the Bannus and the Wood create is Arthurian, complete with castle, sorcery, knights, and dragons. The characters' ages and physical forms often change, though not so fast that readers will lose track of what's going on. Time, too, is fluid. Jones's knife-sharp prose delves with psychedelic clarity into the shared subconscious of humankind. The book is humorous as well, with lines that call Douglas Adams, Monty Python, and James Bond to mind. A wide range of readers will find it marvelously mind-stretching. They may even be tempted to read it twice.
Vanessa Elder, School Library Journal
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite book of all time!, Jun 28 2002

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This review is from: Hexwood (Hardcover)

This is an astonishing book, with the most complex, well-thought-out plot and appealing characters that I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing. The style is deceptively simple and clear, hiding a fog and fluxion that all makes an impossible kind of sense - by the end. I have read this book at least ten times, each time being seduced into buying a reality that I know can't be. My favorite Jones books are Howl's Moving Castle, Deep Secret, A Tale of Time City, and A Sudden Wild Magic, but for me this one blows them all away because of Jones's masterful handling of time and reality. Not to mention the subtle romance, the bewitching secondary characters, and the dragons...my only question is, however do young people "get" this book?

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