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The Great Troll War

The Last Dragonslayer Chronicles, Book 4

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The Great Troll War

By: Jasper Fforde
Narrated by: Jane Collingwood
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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 400 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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I absolutely loved this book. So we'll written, such wonderful loveable characters, a superb story and a fabulous narration. It made me laugh and it made me cry. What a fabulous series!

Fantastic, brilliant.

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A brilliant last instalment of the last dragon slayer chronicles. Tissues at the ready though xxx

Fantastic

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I love so much of Jasper Fforde’s work and the quartet is a lot of fun, but occasionally the editing lets the story down and some of the more obvious plot holes are really annoying. There’s quite a few inconsistencies between the books and overall the plot feels a little bit like someone making it up as they go along. The big reveals don’t seem to be consistent with what’s gone before, for example Jenny’s beserker ancestry seems to have been entirely forgotten (except for one mention which appears to be an attempt to mask the plot hole). Fforde is clearly aware of his plot holes - see the the hole-smith in the Thursday Next series - but I’m clearly more bothered by them than he is!
I always enjoy his work but sometimes end up going away with a slightly frustrated feeling, as if I were a teacher reading a C standard essay from an A standard student who couldn’t be bothered with the extra effort. For me, his novel Shades of Grey with a more limited but fully realised world view is vastly superior.
If you’re a Fforde fan this is definitely worth a listen but don’t expect a polished quartet.

Fun but some elements really niggle

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Epic end to a fabulous series with Ffordeian quirks and twists aplenty. But is it really the end?

'Don't you start'

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Loved it in the end it took a bit of getting into unlike the first three books but I'm glad I persevered it loses its way slightly in the middle for a few chapters but it's gets back on track quickly afterwards
I thought the end was good
Jasper Fforde fans don't be put off by it being a "children's" book a good story is a good story

Brilliant ending to the series

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