The Wizards of Once: Never and Forever

By: Cressida Cowell

Narrated by: David Tennant

The author of How to Train Your Dragon returns with the final, magical installment of the New York Times bestselling Wizards of Once series!
Xar and Wish are on the final leg of their journey -- first stop: The Mine of Happiness. Here, starvation is never far away for the Magical creatures who toil in its horrible depths. Xar and Wish must escape and fast; Xar needs to take control of his ever-growing Witchstain, and Wish must achieve her Destiny. But the Tazzelwurm is in their way, a grotesque monster who threatens to block every entrance.

Time is not on their side, but the forests are calling them. Will their combined strength be enough for the biggest quest so far: to defeat the Kingwitch once and for all?

Critic reviews

Praise for The Wizards of Once:"A rollicking adventure tale and coming-of-age story rolled into one enjoyable package...Readers will fall in love with the imaginative worldbuilding and humorous dialogue and asides...A delightful magical romp."—Kirkus

"A clever and fresh new series.... Cowell fans will be elated to have a new world to get to know, and they'll welcome the author's familiar writing style and humor."—BCCB

"The tongue-in-cheek voice combines with scribbly b&w interior illustrations...to sustain a sense of wonder and mayhem from start to finish. Cowell skillfully mixes adventure with silliness in a satisfying story."—Publishers Weekly

"Cowell crafts two believable and lovable main characters...A strong new series starter by a best-selling author."—School Library Journal

"The first in a series, this book will delight and engage readers of fantasy both young and old."—School Library Connection

"A new fantasy world fizzing with evil, magic, Iron Age history, laugh-out-loud jokes and a huge cast of memorable characters. Another bestseller is born."—The Daily Mail (UK)

"The detail of Cowell's world is a delight...This one will run and run."—The Observer (UK)

Love it all

Can’t go wrong with this fun filled heartfelt humor adventure! Thank you very very much!

Highly recommended

Fantastic narration and a wonderful story. I listened to the whole series. Would be a great series for a family to listen to together.

So much fun.

Cressida Cowell does it again, I love this series, not as much as the Dragon series but still good. We get to finally find out who the unknown narrator is, not overly surprised and I’m a bit sad a who dies. Xar is a bit of a brat throughout the story, but he ends up being your favorite character. Not a fan of Perdida, she is annoying and seems like she was put in the story to fill in some holes. I’m going to have to go listen to the Dragon series again, I just love me some Toothless. Love the narrator he is fun to listen to.

Even though Perda with someone in all the books, I do not agree that she should be the narrator

I disliked that part of that was the narrator was predator. It should’ve been someone who was in the first book and in all the books not just in the third one.

wow

This is my second favorite book of all time and yo David you are like the best