A Bad Spell in Yurt

by C. Dale Brittain

Wizard of Yurt (1)

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The tiny kingdom of Yurt is the perfect place-or so it seems-for someone who barely managed to graduate from the wizards' school, especially after all that embarrassment with the frogs. But Daimbert, newly hired Royal Wizard of Yurt, senses an evil spell at work. But who could be responsible? The beautiful young queen? Her flighty aunt? The dour chaplain? The old, retired Royal Wizard, who seems to know more than he's saying? Or someone from out of the castle's past? Daimbert quickly show more realizes that finding out and saving his kingdom may take all the magic he never learned properly in the first place, with his life the price of failure--good thing he knows how to improvise! show less

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I'm generally fond of this series. The characters are well constructed - neither too happy go lucky nor too angsty, though this was some of my first exposure as a kid to characters with psychological trauma. The plot and world are entertaining.
What strikes me about this series is the religion. At times you could be reading any book on Catholic or High Church teachings. after the moraland ethical vacuity of so much modern, fantasy where even the good guys seem to inhabit a slough of moral relatissm. It is a bit of a shock. , The plot is okay but the writting is a bit wooden

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Canonical title
A Bad Spell in Yurt
Original publication date
1991-08-01
People/Characters
Daimbert
Important places
Yurt (Imaginary place)
First words
I was not a very good wizard. But it was not a very big kingdom.

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Fiction and Literature, Fantasy
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
LCC
PS3552 .R4965 .B3Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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