The dark lord has been defeated by his archenemy, and banished to earth in the form of a teenage boy. The early years is about a dark lord who is cursed into the body of a 12 year old boy on earth from his realm. Jamie thomson, author of the dark lord series talks about how he came up with the concept for the books, winning the roald dahl funny prize 2012. The dark lord s misunderstandings of our world and his hyperbolic boasts of evil can be, at times, hysterical. The dark lord of the iron tower of despair at the gates of doom. He is taken to the hospital and has like zero concept of how humans work. The early years hardcover october 2, 2012 by jamie thomson author. Bloomsbury publishing usa, oct 2, 2012 juvenile fiction 304 pages. He was weak when he was found so when they asked him his name, they mistook dark lord as dirk lloyd. However, as dirk becomes more acclimated to our realm, the tale loses steam and its sense of humor for a bit. The book begins with the dark lord, supreme ruler of the darklands, waking up in a savemart supermarket. British author thomson stands the humantrappedinafantasyland tale on its head in this cheeky first of a trilogy. When dirk lloyd awakens in the middle of a small town hes never seen.
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