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The Outsorcerer's Apprentice

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by Tom Holt
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A happy workforce, it is said, is a productive workforce.
Mmmm.
Try telling that to an army of belligerent goblins. Or the Big Bad Wolf. Or a professional dragons layer. Who is looking after their well-being? Who gives a damn about their intolerable working conditions, lack of adequate health insurance, and terrible coffee in the canteen?
Thankfully, with access to an astonishingly diverse workforce and limitless natural resources, maximizing revenue and improving operating profit has never really been an issue for the one they call "the Wizard." Until now.
Because now a perfectly good business model — based on sound fiscal planning, entrepreneurial flair, and only one or two of the infinite parallel worlds that make up our universe — is about to be disrupted by a young man not entirely aware of what's going on.
There's also a slight risk that the fabric of reality will be torn to shreds. You really do have to be awfully careful with these things.

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  • Release date

    July 15, 2014

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

      • ISBN: 9780316283656

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780316368780

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780316368780
      • File size: 1366 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      July 1, 2014

      The inhabitants of a fairy-tale-like kingdom have lived the same way for centuries: slaying dragons, dealing with wolves dressed as elderly grandmothers, fighting dwarf armies, etc. Everything is overseen by the wizard. But when Prince Florizel, the new heir to the local throne, arrives on the scene, something changes. Florizel is not from their world. He has traveled there by way of a doughnut (a technology explored in Holt's 2013 novel, Doughnut) and realizes that the wizard has been using the inhabitants of this world as cheap labor. VERDICT Light as air, this novel might not stick with you long after you read it, but it certainly is entertaining, especially in the ingenious ways that the wizard has found to make money off the fairy-tale denizens. Holt (Blonde Bombshell) has a zany humor that will appeal to fans of Terry Pratchett and Christopher Moore.

      Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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