Year of the Griffin

Name: Year of the Griffin
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
ISBN: 9781977380555

Author: Diana Wynne Jones

Series: Derkholm #2

Narrator: Gemma Dawson

Unabridged: 9 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/04/2018

Categories: Children's Fiction, Fantasy Stories

Synopsis

It is eight years after the tours from offworld have stopped. High Chancellor Querida has retired, leaving Wizard Corkoran in charge of the Wizards' University. Although Wizard Corkoran's obsession is to be the first man on the moon, and most of his time is devoted to this project, he decides he will teach the new first years himself in hopes of currying the favor of the new students' families—for surely they must all come from wealth, important families—and obtaining money for the University (which it so desperately needs). But Wizard Corkoran is dismayed to discover that one of those students—indeed, one he had such high hopes for, Wizard Derk's own daughter Elda—is a hugh golden griffin, and that none of the others has any money at all.

Wizard Corkoran's money-making scheme backfires, and when Elda and her new friends start working magic on their own, the schemes go wronger still. And when, at length, Elda ropes in her brothers Kit and Blade to send Corkoran to the moon . . . well . . . life at the Wizards' University spins magically and magnificently out of control.

About Diana Wynne Jones

Diana Wynne Jones was the multiple award-winning author of many fantasy novels for children, teenagers, and adults. Her book Howl's Moving Castle was made into an Academy Award-nominated major animated feature by Hayao Miyazaki. She received the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. Married to the medievalist J. A. Burrow, with whom she had three sons, she lived for many years in Bristol, the setting for many of her books.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessica on October 23, 2023

I remembered not liking this one as much as Dark Lord of Derkholm . . . I'm adult enough to admit when I'm wrong. Just a freaking delight from start to finish, as Dark Lord is, and so interesting to see the ramifications of what their world and magic had become after so many years under the thumb of......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on January 24, 2020

I really liked the narrator of Dark Lord of Derkholm, and I was a little sad that he didn't do this one, but since the narrator is the splendidly lovely Gemma Dawson, I wasn't too sad. I think I've read this one other time, and that when it was published. So...nearly twenty years ago, and yet I remem......more

Goodreads review by lucy on May 09, 2023

bro what if we all formed a tight-knit friend group at wizard college and tackled each of our individual traumas and murderous enemies one by one until we could all be happy. what if the power of friendship and love given unconditionally carried us to an end befitting a shakespeare comedy. bro. what......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on June 07, 2020

A perfect book.......more

Goodreads review by Blodeuedd on December 22, 2018

Oh she is so funny! Why did it take me ages to try her books! So far they have all been great fun. This one takes on the whole wizard boarding school trope and it is hilarious. The University is run down and out of money. After Chesney they have barely any wizards who know real magic. Instead they te......more