With the death of the Merlin however, everything changes, since Roddy and Grundo discover that the new Merlin is involved in a dire conspiracy to take power away from the King, and alter the whole balance of magic in Blest. Though Roddy’s mam occasionally threatens to send her off to live with her grandfather in London, the Magid Maxwell Hyde, Roddy does not want to leave the Progress, particularly because then she could not take care of her friend Grundo, whose reading and magic skills are both backwards, and who is alternately overlooked or tormented by his horrible mother and sister. Then again, whether related to Deep Secret or not, there was no denying that as is usual with Wynne Jones, The Merlin Conspiracy would feature complex, likable characters, weird worlds and madcap magics a plenty, and would be at the least fun, and quite possibly fantastic.Īrianrhod Hyde, aka Roddy, has grown up in the King’s Progress, the never ending royal tour of the isles of Blest which sees the King and his chief wizard, the Merlin, along with all his court and advisers riding around the country between nodes of power to reinforce the land’s magic.
So, it was not a surprise to find that The Merlin Conspiracy was a very different book to Deep Secret with only a couple of characters, and almost no plot elements, in common. Far from carrying on a story in a new volume, or even providing more adventures for her previous protagonists, her sequels are usually told from the perspective of entirely different people, take place in different parts of the world, or even entirely different worlds, and have little or nothing to do with the plot of the previous book. Diana Wynne Jones has an odd way of writing sequels.
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