The Song of the Quarkbeast
core novel 2011 The Last Dragonslayer
Record
| First published | 2011 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.07 (9,959 ratings, collected 2026-10-21) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781444707229 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Big Magic, which had been in serious decline in the Ununited Kingdom, has returned, and the despotic King Snodd IV hopes to cash in by putting the wizards of Kazam Mystical Arts Management under his control: he proposes that they merge with iMagic, the rival house led by the Amazing Blix, newly appointed Court Mystician. Sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange, the foundling running Kazam since the Great Zambini's disappearance, is resolute, and when the king orders a contest between the two houses, with the losers to be forcibly merged, she and her mostly lovable cast of misfits must rely more on wits than on wands to preserve their independence, while a mysterious party searches for a lost magic ring and another Quarkbeast is on the loose. The second book of the series.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Last Dragonslayer
- Series: The Last Dragonslayer core; position 2 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Jasper Fforde
Notes
- From the series record (The Last Dragonslayer): Jasper Fforde's four comic fantasies of Jennifer Strange and the wizards of Kazam.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Last Dragonslayer: position 2 of 4: previous The Last Dragonslayer (2010) · next The Eye of Zoltar (2014)
Sources
- Series page on the rating platform (ratings and years with titles)
- Wikipedia (The Last Dragonslayer)
- Wikipedia (The Song of the Quarkbeast)
- Publishers Weekly (review)
- Hodder & Stoughton (publisher description and author note, via Angus & Robertson)
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