“It sounds like he was an honorable man.”
“He was. But still money was short, and he was forced to do the one thing that
sorcerers should never do. An act of
such gross betrayal to his art that if it were made common knowledge, his
reputation would be destroyed forever, and he would die a broken man,
humiliated and shunned by his peers.”
“You mean-?”
“Right. He did children’s
parties.”
(from The Last
Dragonslayer, by Jasper Fforde)
8*/10. The full review is here.
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