The Key to the Kingdom

9 hrs. 47 min.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Language Russian

Authors Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko

Author Marina Dyachenko

Author Sergey Dyachenko

Narrator Abr Kapitan

Description

The book is written as teenage fantasy, but an experiment I conducted on live people showed that adults read it with interest and younger children (7–8 years old) listen to it. The plot corresponds to one of the classic fantasy ones: a bearer of modern, pragmatic earthly culture is transported into a world of heroes and wizards.
What distinguishes the book from bad fantasy is that the authors have built their structure of the universe quite thoughtfully, and in the general line with other magical worlds (say, for example, the name of the King — Oberon (!) — and although this is not the Oberon from “Prospero’s Books,” now and then you still find yourself thinking about it...)
The main character is not a superman special forces soldier called upon to smash, kill, impregnate, and fertilize, but a teenage girl with the full bouquet of adolescent complexes, who, in full accordance with good literary laws, does not simply develop into a great sorceress — no! — but performs all her feats the way an ordinary person would: out of necessity!