Cimorene

I loved Charmed life when I was a kid. It's the only Diana Wynne Jones book that was translated back then. I didn't see anything remarkably stupid in Cat's behavior because in my mind, he was like ,eight or nine, and because the world was wierdly victorian one with rules that didn't apply in my world so it was not my place to try to figure out if his decisions were stupid in *his* world. A perfect book for about a nine year old, since it's all about a kid's trust towards parental figures.

Anyway, I was truly fashcinated with the end scene, with people in power being striped from their powers and chained up and attempted to be killed and sacrificed. This later became my "striped out of power"-kink...