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Wet, Wild, and Wacky!
This week I’m reviewing Live and Let Swim, which is part of the My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish series by Mo O’Hara. First, let me say that this book is not one story but two! The book also contains a second zombie goldfish story: My Pet’s Got Talent. I had never read any zombie goldfish stories, and this is book #5, but it was totally fine to start in the middle of the series, as long as you accept the basic premise: that Tom has a zombie goldfish that can hypnotize people and Tom’s big brother is evil and has a vampire kitten. Once you get on that train, you’re on the way to wacky town.
So that’s a warning: you either love something that is this far off from reality or you don’t. If you like wacky, it still has to be funny and a good ride.
I liked this book because: The good guys were normal kids who had a clear enemy: evil megalomaniacal big brothers, the pets were powerful, and the parents were clueless. Maybe you can relate? Anyway, I also liked how all the chapters in the first story were take-offs on James Bond titles: “Live and Let Swim”, “The Boy with the Golden Fish”, etc. The plots are completely unbelievable, but the solutions are clever. Using a pet talent show to take over the world? Foiling the bad guys with a teleporting turtle? All in all, it’s a good time.
On the Dude-A-Rrific Summer Reading Bingo Card, this book fits: LOL, BEEN THERE. HAVEN’T DONE THAT, (the aquarium), NOT A HUMAN STORY (if you see it from Frankie’s point of view), CONTRAPTIONS, BAD GOOD GUY OR GOOD BAD GUY (Frankie is an undead good guy-uh-fish, and Tom and Pradeep’s evil brothers Mark and Sanj are evil incarnate), and, of course, BIZARRE.
Find the bingo card and more reviews here: https://emilykayjohnson.com/TheDudesC...
So that’s a warning: you either love something that is this far off from reality or you don’t. If you like wacky, it still has to be funny and a good ride.
I liked this book because: The good guys were normal kids who had a clear enemy: evil megalomaniacal big brothers, the pets were powerful, and the parents were clueless. Maybe you can relate? Anyway, I also liked how all the chapters in the first story were take-offs on James Bond titles: “Live and Let Swim”, “The Boy with the Golden Fish”, etc. The plots are completely unbelievable, but the solutions are clever. Using a pet talent show to take over the world? Foiling the bad guys with a teleporting turtle? All in all, it’s a good time.
On the Dude-A-Rrific Summer Reading Bingo Card, this book fits: LOL, BEEN THERE. HAVEN’T DONE THAT, (the aquarium), NOT A HUMAN STORY (if you see it from Frankie’s point of view), CONTRAPTIONS, BAD GOOD GUY OR GOOD BAD GUY (Frankie is an undead good guy-uh-fish, and Tom and Pradeep’s evil brothers Mark and Sanj are evil incarnate), and, of course, BIZARRE.
Find the bingo card and more reviews here: https://emilykayjohnson.com/TheDudesC...
