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3.47 AVERAGE
3.47 AVERAGE
Read- April 2020 for the O.W.Ls (Astronomy- read the majority of this book whilst it's dark)
- It's so weird that I'm up to date with Walliams' books and that I can read them as they are coming out. I always love to read one of his books though, such a comfort read.
- It's so weird that I'm up to date with Walliams' books and that I can read them as they are coming out. I always love to read one of his books though, such a comfort read.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
On the lower scale of 3*. Just not good as Walliams's book used to be.
This was a great. Myself and my 11 year old found it very funny and a pleasure to read.
Sorry, no. Compared to the Boy on a Dress, or Billionaire Boy, this is a poor effort. Perhaps Walliams is writing for a younger audience than his previous books, but if you enjoyed the aforementioned, i think you will be too old to enjoy the humour here.
Whatever the case, he is phoning it in, dropping lots of onomatopoeia and "zany" stuff to cover up a minimal story, weak plot, and lack of coherence in events and their resolutions. This lack of coherence particularly, feels like Walliams is going for crazy hijinks, without realising at all that there has to be a method to the madness. The final one was so anticlimactic and irrelevant, I have forgotten what exactly happened already, and I only read it a few hours ago.
It had its moments - a few funny lines, and I quite liked the boy (but Slime remained completely opaque, or perhaps just one-dimensional throughout - we never see it's motives, or are convinced by any of its apparent likes), and his sister, but the one moment of pathos is broken by there being no development of it at all. One moment it is one thing, then it switches to its opposite. And that was supposed to be in the positive column... and actually, the best thing about it was that I read it with my daughter.
1 1/2 stars.
Whatever the case, he is phoning it in, dropping lots of onomatopoeia and "zany" stuff to cover up a minimal story, weak plot, and lack of coherence in events and their resolutions. This lack of coherence particularly, feels like Walliams is going for crazy hijinks, without realising at all that there has to be a method to the madness. The final one was so anticlimactic and irrelevant, I have forgotten what exactly happened already, and I only read it a few hours ago.
It had its moments - a few funny lines, and I quite liked the boy (but Slime remained completely opaque, or perhaps just one-dimensional throughout - we never see it's motives, or are convinced by any of its apparent likes), and his sister, but the one moment of pathos is broken by there being no development of it at all. One moment it is one thing, then it switches to its opposite. And that was supposed to be in the positive column... and actually, the best thing about it was that I read it with my daughter.
1 1/2 stars.
Read- April 2020 for the O.W.Ls (Astronomy- read the majority of this book whilst it's dark)
- It's so weird that I'm up to date with Walliams' books and that I can read them as they are coming out. I always love to read one of his books though, such a comfort read.
- It's so weird that I'm up to date with Walliams' books and that I can read them as they are coming out. I always love to read one of his books though, such a comfort read.