Poor Marty he is awoken by a bunch of monkeys drumming on his head and
stealing his pocket change, or maybe it was just a night on the Tequila! And so
starts this trip through Marty’s hangover morning. However, when the cupboard
starts to speak to him I knew that something else was a foot!
Awake in his own dream Marty
starts his morning off by losing his Mirror Iimage and re-friending his old pirate
toy named Timbers by splatting him with a slipper!
With an invite to the Giggletastic
Carnival Sideshow Spectacular tucked in hand and a quest to find his lost Mirror
Image and a way out of the DreamWorld, Marty and his new found pirate friend go
off to catch the bus, as you do! Sounds like they were driving through Croydon
for most of it!
As they reach dock,
just go with it here, Timbers proudly shows off his pirate ship The Flying
Fathom and I was so wrapped up in the mayhem I wanted to be on the deck with
Oaf and the motley gang; its unique locomotion just another mad moment
exploding from inside JW head.
Finally making it to
Stellar Island where Marty spends his (awake) day job dressed as Harvey the
Space Beagle, he comes across another random ally and soon the whole gang finds
themselves in the Hall of Paranormal Mirrors. It is here that things start to get a little spooky as He is talked
about.
The “He” is a certain Mr Peepers
a freakish, demonic clown with a truly skin crawling aura that JW manages to
portray even amongst all this daft jolliness.
When dastardly plot
twists start to unfold we are treated to a variety of characters, unforgettable
for me are the Jamaican, French and German canaries that are in a desperate
search for worms and cheese; I do hope they found some and the superhero “Locust”
with his spangly lycra leggings and unending history lesson of fascinating
facts.
The funniest part of
the book for me was the daring ice cream truck escape, complete with choc ice weaponry
and pogoing clowns!
As they continue on
their hunt/escape/quest Marty and his gang may have found his route “home”. I
was pleased to see that JW did not skimp or wuss out on the ending, holding
fast to a theme and giving a brilliant ending, whilst leaving it wide open for
more fun.
This book was a total riot, I kept finding myself guffawing and snorting
at all the odd, random moments and exceptionally clever word play one liners. I’m pretty sure the image of a whale on a pogo
stick will stay with me for awhile. As for the Great Badger Invasion and
cheeseburger trees, well, just well!
The mental visuals given are a whirlwind of colours and images, it would
be amazing to see what Hollywood CGI could do with this mayhem.
Reading the bio’ on JW I understand that this is to be a serious of
books, personally I think it could be extended into a massive series, the
imagination and writing skill of JW seems endless is this short (a good two
hours!) read is anything to judge him buy.
Fantastic attention to detail in every moment of madness, the writing
style is an easy read but also complex as so much is packed into each sentence,
paragraph and chapter.
All the characters whether human or critter are fleshed out and have
unique personalities. I could not spot a single typo or editing error which is
outstanding for a first book, but then The Ragnarok team are amazing.
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