Kaethe

October 7, 2007
July 21, 2014

Sometimes a king just wants to walk away from all the tedious business of running a country, especially if he's the only one doing all the tedious work of running the country. Even more so if he has an officious steward looking reproachfully at him all the time because he won't do things the proper way. Fortunately there's a sort of crisis developing involving those nasty wizards and small areas of ecologic devastation to the Enchanted Forest, so Mendenbar can go walk about and see what's up. The plot thickens when he runs into Cimorene, Chief cook and Librarian to Kazul, King of the Dragons.

After a number of small scale and not very dangerous adventures among storybook characters with an embarrassing magic carpet, everyone makes it home for a good meal.

Still a pleasure, but with less of Cimorene being clever, and more of her fencing prowess. You'll cheer the vanquishing of those bothersome wizards without feeling guilty, because they aren't injured, only inconvenienced for a while, and there's no gore at all.

A good story to read to quite young children (mine were six and three) and a charming diversion for the more aged.

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