Chrestomanci · Book 5
Mixed Magics
- Published
- 1 January 2000
- Pages
- 193
- ISBN-13
- 9780064410182
- Type
- collection
About this book
Mixed Magics, the fifth book, arrived in 2000 after a twelve-year gap and is by far the shortest entry in the series at 193 pages, a short-story collection spanning various points in the Chrestomanci timeline that works well read last.
Its place in Chrestomanci
Mixed Magics is book 5 in the Chrestomanci series. It follows The Lives of Christopher Chant. It is followed by Conrad's Fate. See the full Chrestomanci reading order.
Chrestomanci is Diana Wynne Jones's longest-running series, built around a deceptively simple idea: in a multiverse of parallel worlds where magic works, someone with nine lives has to be appointed as a kind of government enchanter, keeping ordinary witches and wizards from causing catastrophes across worlds that don't all know magic is real. That role belongs to the elegant, maddeningly evasive Christopher Chant, who appears in every book but is rarely the narrator -- instead, each novel follows a different…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780064410182