Your Humble Blogger was looking for a book without thump, if you know what I mean, and picked up The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume II, from which I read The Magicians of Caprona. It’s a wonderful story. The scary bits are just the right amount of scary, and the funny bits aren’t too funny, and the dues ex machina is telegraphed from the beginning, that is, the whole point of the plot is to get the Gd down from the machine, so when they finally do and all their problems are solved in an instant, rather than it being disappointing, it works.
For me, anyway.
Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,
-Vardibidian.