The Dark Lord

By Jack Heckel

Book Overview

In The Dark Lord-- a hilarious parody of epic fantasy -- Jack Heckel (author of The Charming Tales) tells the story of a young man traveling into a dark and magical world of dwarves, elves, and sorcerers to restore the balance between good and evil. After spending years as an undercover, evil wizard in the enchanted world of Trelari, Avery hangs up the cloak he wore as the Dark Lord and returns to his studies at Mysterium University. On the day of his homecoming, Avery drunkenly confides in a beautiful stranger, telling her everything about his travels. When Avery awakens, hungover and confused, he discovers that his worst nightmare has come true: the mysterious girl has gone to Trelari to rule as a Dark Queen. Avery must travel back to the bewitched land and liberate the magical creatures . . . but in order to do so, he has to join forces with the very people who fought him as the Dark Lord.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062359347
• ISBN13: 9780062359346
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Harper Voyager
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

The Dark Lord, extraordinary

This book is for most ages, it is very much in the line of Terry Pratchett books, there are layers of meanings. It is an excellent story of our hero blithely believing that he knows how to "fix" another world. He will save it. The result is not only an excellent read, but a lesson is chaos theory and colonialism. We cannot imagine the unintended results of our consequences, all told with humor! I have just ordered the sequel. It will appeal to the gaming world greatly, lots of cool world building references that this nongamer only vaguely understood!