Dark Lord of Derkholm
- 480
- Pages
- about 9 h
- Reading time
- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
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About the book
The Dark Lord of Derkholm, simply Dark Lord of Derkholm in the United States, is a fantasy novel by the British author Diana Wynne Jones, published autumn 1998 in both the U.K. and the U.S. It won the 1999 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.6 across 76 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 33% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.8 | 10 | 13% |
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 66 | 87% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“Fine, I guess. I thought it would have been a lot more interesting as a fleshed-out series instead of the middle-grade-ish? book that it was. Fun enough, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it.”
“This had every element I usually love in a light fantasy novel. I don't know why I didn't like it more. Possibly the narrative skipped around too much and it felt more like I was reading a summary than several solid points of view.”
Frequently asked
How long is Dark Lord of Derkholm?
It has 480 pages — shorter than 60% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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