Conrad's Fate (Chrestomanci #5) Paperback | Pages: 400 pages

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Original Title:	Conrad's Fate
ISBN:	0060747455 (ISBN13: 9780060747459)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Chrestomanci #5
Characters:	Christopher Chant, Conrad Tesdinic
Literary Awards:	Locus Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Novel (2006)

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Someone at Stallery Mansion is changing the world. At first, only small details, but the changes get bigger and bigger. It's up to Conrad, a twelve-year-old with terrible karma who's just joined the mansion's staff, to find out who is behind it.

But he's not the only one snooping around. His fellow servant-in-training, Christopher Chant, is charming, confident, and from another world, with a mission of his own -- rescuing his friend, lost in an alternate Stallery Mansion. Can they save the day before Conrad's awful fate catches up with them?

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Title	:	Conrad's Fate (Chrestomanci #5)
Author	:	Diana Wynne Jones
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	May 9th 2006 by Greenwillow Books (first published March 2005)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Childrens. Magic

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I finished my third Chrestomanci book, Conrad's Fate, and while I still quite enjoyed it, I think the previous two I've read, Charmed Life and The Lives of Christopher Chant, were a bit better. This one was fun, we followed young Christopher Chant in his years before taking over the role of Chrestomanci; this time he was posing as a domestic in the grand estate of Stallchester in the dimension of Series 7 while searching for his enchantress friend, Mille in the ever-shifting worlds surrounding

A boy with bad karma searches for the source of it at a magical estate, and stumbles into the company of a young Christopher Chant. This is the first in Chrestomanci book (and, IIRC, the first DWJ book I've read) to be in first person; I don't actively dislike the switch, but nor does it add any particularly distinct narrative voice. The upstairs/downstairs estate setting is lively, and DWJ as always nails the lived details and critical humor which make it work; I wish the final reveals hadn't

So exciting! Hoo!

Charming as always, Jones here gives us not only what I would call an "early Chrestomanci" story, when Christopher Chant is still a boy, but it's a murder mystery as well! Conrad lives in Series Seven, where he is taken very much for granted by his uncle and mother. Conrad doesn't realize this, however, nor does he realize the web of deceit that surrounds him when his uncle tells him that he needs to work off a debt from a past life . . . by killing someone in this one!Millie is given more

Conrad's Fate is the story of Conrad Tesdinic, who is told by his uncle that he has bad karma, because he's neglected to kill someone he should've killed in a previous life. He is sent up to work at Stallery Mansion, where this person he has to kill supposedly lives. All he has is the promise that he will know who to kill when he meets this person, and a way to call a Walker who will provide him with what he needs to do the killing. But it's not as easy as it sounds, the world is very magical

A boy with bad karma searches for the source of it at a magical estate, and stumbles into the company of a young Christopher Chant. This is the first in Chrestomanci book (and, IIRC, the first DWJ book I've read) to be in first person; I don't actively dislike the switch, but nor does it add any particularly distinct narrative voice. The upstairs/downstairs estate setting is lively, and DWJ as always nails the lived details and critical humor which make it work; I wish the final reveals hadn't

I had forgotten I'd read this before, so I read it again. This time I'm giving it four stars.___________________________This is one DWJ's worse, which is why I'm giving it three stars - really I'd like to give it four, at least. Like The Pinhoe Egg, this lacks the perfection of character and form of the 'real' four Chrestomanci books. It drags at the start and squashes the conclusion into the last chapter, and relies on an unrealistic omission by Anthea to create the plot.Naturally, though, it