I really liked this book! At first I was like...is this ok? What is this book? It's a very fun adventure with funny (though very dangerous) animals! ( )

4.5
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This book was such a great read! I really am itching to get my hands on the second book in this saga. It is beautifully written and the story has so much heart in it. The characters are amazing and the twists and turns it takes are fantastic. I listened to the audio book as well and loved the narration and how the footnotes are read aloud. It is a lot of fun and I cannot wait to see where the second book takes me. ( )

This is a great book. It starts off a little slow, but that’s due to the immense amount of world-building taking place. It’s the first book in the series, but it becomes apparent pretty quickly that there’s a lot that happened before the first scene takes place; plenty of allusion and foreshadowing.

I wasn’t super sure how I felt about Peterson’s world at first, so many things were so close to ours, just minor differences that I couldn’t decide if they were charming or annoying (totatoes in your garden? groaches scuttling about in the dark?) I also wasn’t sure about the light-hearted tone of the book, especially since from the beginning, it’s obvious that darker things are afoot. In the end, once the action started up, it didn’t often slow down, the goofy similarities proved easy to accept and get used to, and the light-heartedness of the tone provided a necessary balance to the peril and darkness in the story, especially considering it’s written for kids.

The story is exciting, the characters are charming and very much lovable, and there’s a lot to look forward to with 3 more books in the series. ( )