"Once upon a time, in a faraway kingdom, a hero, the
Chosen One, was born . . . and so begins every fairy tale ever told. This is
not that fairy tale. There is a Chosen One, but he is unlike any One who
has ever been Chosened. And there is a faraway kingdom, but you have
never been to a magical world quite like the land of Pell. There, a plucky farm
boy will find more than he's bargained for on his quest to awaken the sleeping
princess in her cursed tower. First there's the Dark Lord who wishes for the
boy's untimely death . . . and also very fine cheese. Then there's a bard
without a song in her heart but with a very adorable and fuzzy tail, an
assassin who fears not the night but is terrified of chickens, and a mighty
fighter more frightened of her sword than of her chain-mail bikini. This
journey will lead to sinister umlauts, a trash-talking goat, the Dread
Necromancer Steve, and a strange and wondrous journey to the most peculiar 'happily ever after' that ever once-upon-a-timed."
While Kill The Farm Boy is supposed
to humorous fantasy story, it’s not very deep (and I read a lot of Piers
Anthony and Craig Shaw Gardner in the 80s and 90s that have more depth than
this book), but it’s still rompish. However, I never really did find anything
about it engaging, the plotting is sluggish, the characters dull, stupid, and pointless and the humor childish. Yes, at times, there are few good jokes here and there, some which
might make you even chuckle, but most are of the eye-rolling variety, as if the
continuous joke of a goat pooping out pellets would be not only funny once, but
funny 360 more times throughout the book.
Ultimately, this book made me angry,
as this genre is always ripe for satire. But I could not wait to get it over
with –as a matter of fact, I threw it across the room and said screw it. It’s
rare for me to hate a book this much and I guess I have to give props to both
Dawson and Hearne for producing such a trashcan fire of a book and then get it
published.
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