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- The Last Dragonslayer is a young adult fantasy novel by Jasper Fforde. It is set in an alternative world in which magic is real, but has become weakened and is also being replaced by modern technology. The setting is almost like modern Britain, except that it is split into a number of small counties. Those counties reference modern-day geography.
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The Last Dragonslayer is a young adult fantasy novel by Jasper Fforde. It is set in an alternative world in which magic is real, but has become weakened and is also being replaced by modern technology. The setting is almost like modern Britain, except that it is split into a number of small counties. Those counties reference modern-day geography.
This series is set in the Kingdom of Hereford in the Ununited Kingdoms of Great Britain, very much like modern day Britain with its bureaucracy, politics, nepotism and corruption.
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The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde is a captivating fantasy novel set in the magical kingdom of Hereford. When 15-year-old Jennifer Strange learns that she is the last dragonslayer, she must navigate political intrigue, ancient prophecies, and a world on the brink of change.
Dec 27, 2016 · Right in the middle of this strange battle between two ways of life is Jennifer Strange, an orphan who is taken into indentured servitude by a magician called The Great Zambini (a really warm...
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Feb 3, 2014 · In a twisted alternate world, the Dragonlands are situated between the Kingdom of Hereford and the Duchy of Brecon, in the west of a balnkanized version of England and Wales known as the Ununited Kingdoms. It’s a world where magic is slowly dying out, its practitioners reduced to delivering pizzas on flying carpets and rewiring houses by spell.