#76 in Humour
The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
- 384
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England” shows Sanderson in a lighter, more playful register than usual: an amnesiac hero, brisk action, and mock handbook excerpts with illustrations that supply much of the humour. It is fun while it lasts, but some readers used to his richer novels find the characters thin and the ending too easily won. Best taken as a breezy diversion.
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About the book
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson—creator of the smash-hit science fiction and fantasy series Skyward, The Stormlight Archive, and Mistborn—comes a new science fiction adventure. A man awakens in a clearing in what appears to be medieval England with no memory of who he is, where he came from, or why he is there. Chased by a group from his own time, his sole hope for survival lies in regaining his missing memories, making allies among the locals, and perhaps even trusting in their superstitious boasts. His only help from the “real world” should have been a guidebook entitled The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, except his copy exploded during transit. The few fragments he managed to save provide clues to his situation, but can he figure them out in time to survive? Note from Brandon: Sometimes an idea just won’t let go of you for years. The initial seed of this novel was the title that eventually turned into The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England. At first there was no story to go with that title, but I wrote it down and kept coming back to it, wondering what that book could possibly be about. Something else I thought about off and on for years was the classic concept of a man waking up in another time and another place, with no idea how he got there. It was when those two ideas came together, and I placed a book with that title into that man’s hands, that this novel was born.
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8.78.7 / 10 - The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval EnglandThis book
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8.88.8 / 10 - The Sunlit Man
8.58.5 / 10 - Isles of the Emberdark
8.78.7 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.4 across 765 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 84% of the weight and the score stays at 7.5 — the Humour average of 7.8 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.8 | 16 | 2% |
| Hardcover | 7.4 | 749 | 98% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England?
It has 384 pages — shorter than 82% of the ranked books in Humour.
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