A review by retiredlibrarylady
The Murdstone Trilogy by Mal Peet

2.0

Sort of a send-up of fantasy series, it's over the top and left me cold. Phillip Murdstone is pressured by his agent to write fantasy since his novels about troubled boys aren't in demand any longer. He doesn't like fantasy and retreats into the whiskey bottle, where he meets the strange being Pocket Wellfair. They make a deal; Pocket writes/dictates the novel, which is a screaming success. Needless to say, there then must be two more. No fantasy can come in less than a threesome, right? Things go from bad to worse as Phillip tries desperately to write them himself but ends up making deals with... mysterious creatures, and becomes a gibbering idiot. Many others have enjoyed it, but not I.