I love the hell out of this book. I read it to my sister when we were younger. It’s all about this world, and it’s a fantasy world, and a bad, wicked man called Mr. Chesney is using the entire world to give people from the real world tours. And so the entire world has to do what he says: the elves have to pretend to be wicked, and the wizards have to be Dark Lords and be defeated by the tour groups dozens of times every year; and the cities have to get sacked. And some wizards get tired…
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Recommended by: Between the Covers Ah, time travel books. You are so numerous, and yet you so often do not want me to love you. It doesn’t have to be this way. The Time Traveler’s Wife and me are buddies. Time at the Top makes my life happy by its very existence. It can be done. Apparently with Time in the title. (Just so I don’t feel like a big meanie when I complain about Doomsday Book, I’ll say that Diana Wynne Jones, whom I love more than my luggage, wrote a time travel book that I didn’t much care…
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