Meet Dirk Lloyd, or Dark Lord as he prefers to call himself. He has fallen to Earth from the Darklands and found himself trapped in the body of a thirteen year old boy. This is stupendously inconvenient as he is desperate to find his way back, and not many people tend to take a teenage boy insisting he’s the all powerful Dark Lord very seriously. After waking up in hospital he is placed in care of the Purejoie’s and soon befriends their son Chris, and his school friend Sooz. Together they devise a plan to send Dirk back, yet they never quite take him seriously. As readers, we’re inclined to follow Chris and Sooz’s thoughts, surely there’s no such thing as the Darklands ....This is hilarious, and is set to have us inferior puny humans laughing out loud. The language is quite sophisticated but you couldn’t really expect anything less from a Lord. Dirk is witty and offensive, the way he views our world, as if from the outside looking in, is particularly comical. As he struggles with human relationships, emotions and morals it becomes difficult not to love him. I was more than pleased to discover this was the first in a new series and I’m pretty certain Dirk will follow along the same route as Diary of a Wimpy Kid. It really is ‘a work of evil genius’.
Published October 2011
Ooh, this sounds great. Thanks for the review!
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