Dark Lord: The Early Years
by:
Jamie Thomson (author)
The Dark Lord is confounded when he awakens in the middle of a small town on a planet he's never seen before. What is this strange place, why do they keep calling him Dirk Lloyd, and why is he powerless against these earthlings who insist on finding his parents? Could it be that Dirk Lloyd is...
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The Dark Lord is confounded when he awakens in the middle of a small town on a planet he's never seen before. What is this strange place, why do they keep calling him Dirk Lloyd, and why is he powerless against these earthlings who insist on finding his parents? Could it be that Dirk Lloyd is really a human incarnation of the Dark Lord who, after a cataclysmic final battle with his arch nemesis, was hurled into the Pit of Uttermost Despair, aka Earth? Or is he just a lost and confused boy? The Dark Lord must regain his rightful place in the universe before his powers of domination and destruction are lost forever, and help comes from a most unlikely source . . . a human friend. Readers will delight in this wickedly humorous tale as the Dark Lord-theIncarnation of Evil, The World Burner-finds that even he might have a good side.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780802728494 (0802728499)
Publish date: October 2nd 2012
Publisher: Walker Childrens
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Series: Dark Lord (#1)
2.5 stars.I went into this with virtually no expectations so there wasn't much room for disappointment. But even so...To start; Dark/Dirk was supposed to be this age-old, evil overlord which he most definitely was not. His narrative voice was that of a 10-year-old, attempting to be the evil genius/m...
Wow, well this was not at all in the style that I was expecting and so I cannot say that I really enjoyed it. I was hoping for more depth and meaning to Dirk's character and his being sent to "our" world. Instead, while amusing at times, the story is unremittingly shallow and onerously modern in its...
A simple and very funny read. :)