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Bob vs the Trousers of Doom: a funny, farty time-travel adventure!
The unmissable follow-up to BOB VS THE SELFIE ZOMBIES, perfect for fans of DAVID SOLOMONS, DAVID BADDIEL and GREG JAMES & CHRIS SMITH.
AI is threatening to take over the world, and our last hope is a 12-year-old boy called Bob.
Bob, an accidental time-traveller, should be doing his homework but instead he's bouncing in and out of the year 2049 - and life in the future seriously stinks!
When Bob's science class experiment goes wrong, he causes a global aroma-virus pandemic - also known as the farti
AI is threatening to take over the world, and our last hope is a 12-year-old boy called Bob.
Bob, an accidental time-traveller, should be doing his homework but instead he's bouncing in and out of the year 2049 - and life in the future seriously stinks!
When Bob's science class experiment goes wrong, he causes a global aroma-virus pandemic - also known as the farti
320 pages, Paperback
Published August 3, 2023
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December 19, 2023
A new time travel adventure is here! It is time to stop the farting. Time to stop someone making a dumb invention + more!
I was so excited that there would be another book in the series and that Bob would have another time travel adventure!
😍 I am guessing giving what is said in the end there will be at least another book in this series? I mean, you cannot leave us (and poor Bob) hanging like that!
🤣 I just laughed so much at how awkward it was for Bob. I mean, in the future he is married with Gloria who for now is just his best friend (ex-nemesis). And not only that… there is also a baby now. You can imagine that Bob in the past is just feeling so awkward at times being close to Gloria. And Gloria being so confused why Bob is acting weird. Oh girl, if only you knew. Haha. But yeah, he cannot tell her because we all know that time may change in a flash.
😍 The whole time travelling and seeing all the changed as Bob went back and forth and tried to fix things. I loved seeing little hints to things that happened or were about to happen in the past that would affect the future. Like the evil AI program that took over. Or the playground stuff in the future being bugs (or other things from nightmares). I did love that Bob, despite everything seeming quite hopeless at times just kept on going and tried his best to fix things. Make things better. Especially now that he has something else he has to protect other than himself/his future.
😍 The future was quite harrowing this time. I mean, zombies were scary, but I would definitely rank all that happens in this book a bit higher. Not as high as that last bit in the first book though, that was just messed up.
😍 The friendship between Bob, Malcolm, and Gloria. They really have become a team! And it just made me smile so much.
😍 The illustrations! I just love those so much, they really make the story even more fun to read~
😍 The humour was so on point and I laughed so many times.
😍 Farting! Sorry, I am an adult but this still makes me laugh. Sometimes it was a bit disgusting and sometimes it went a bit too far (really, sending a message to all smart stuff to say excuse me when you fart, why?). But in overall, it made me laugh. Especially that there would be a pandemic with farts. Which, to be fair, sounds better than most pandemics.
😍 Despite not doing the best of jobs at times, I did like that the dad keep trying. I do hope that he follows a cooking course, because poor Bob.
All in all, I need more Bob! I need more time travel! I want to see what is next and hopefully it isn’t because of that one smart/annoying/smug boy in Bob’s class.
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com/
I was so excited that there would be another book in the series and that Bob would have another time travel adventure!
😍 I am guessing giving what is said in the end there will be at least another book in this series? I mean, you cannot leave us (and poor Bob) hanging like that!
🤣 I just laughed so much at how awkward it was for Bob. I mean, in the future he is married with Gloria who for now is just his best friend (ex-nemesis). And not only that… there is also a baby now. You can imagine that Bob in the past is just feeling so awkward at times being close to Gloria. And Gloria being so confused why Bob is acting weird. Oh girl, if only you knew. Haha. But yeah, he cannot tell her because we all know that time may change in a flash.
😍 The whole time travelling and seeing all the changed as Bob went back and forth and tried to fix things. I loved seeing little hints to things that happened or were about to happen in the past that would affect the future. Like the evil AI program that took over. Or the playground stuff in the future being bugs (or other things from nightmares). I did love that Bob, despite everything seeming quite hopeless at times just kept on going and tried his best to fix things. Make things better. Especially now that he has something else he has to protect other than himself/his future.
😍 The future was quite harrowing this time. I mean, zombies were scary, but I would definitely rank all that happens in this book a bit higher. Not as high as that last bit in the first book though, that was just messed up.
😍 The friendship between Bob, Malcolm, and Gloria. They really have become a team! And it just made me smile so much.
😍 The illustrations! I just love those so much, they really make the story even more fun to read~
😍 The humour was so on point and I laughed so many times.
😍 Farting! Sorry, I am an adult but this still makes me laugh. Sometimes it was a bit disgusting and sometimes it went a bit too far (really, sending a message to all smart stuff to say excuse me when you fart, why?). But in overall, it made me laugh. Especially that there would be a pandemic with farts. Which, to be fair, sounds better than most pandemics.
😍 Despite not doing the best of jobs at times, I did like that the dad keep trying. I do hope that he follows a cooking course, because poor Bob.
All in all, I need more Bob! I need more time travel! I want to see what is next and hopefully it isn’t because of that one smart/annoying/smug boy in Bob’s class.
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com/
July 16, 2023
In a remarkably timely imagining (as far as the "possibilities" aka dangers of AI are concerned at least - the smart actual trousers not so much!), Bob and the Trousers of Doom explores - among other things - the dangers of overly smart technology.
Bob is an accidental time traveller, who lives with his sole parent, a loving but eccentric father, after the loss of his mother. One of the rare serious elements in the book is Bob's fear of eventually travelling so far ahead (he only travels forward, for some reason) in time that he discovers that his father is no longer alive. Lucky, that is not the case with this particular adventure.
Most middle schoolers will probably enjoy the chaotic misadventures that result from Bob's inadvertent time travel. But be warned, if any reader's sense of humour leans towards the more subtle, this book is definitely of the "farts are the funniest" school of thought...
I received a free copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review
Bob is an accidental time traveller, who lives with his sole parent, a loving but eccentric father, after the loss of his mother. One of the rare serious elements in the book is Bob's fear of eventually travelling so far ahead (he only travels forward, for some reason) in time that he discovers that his father is no longer alive. Lucky, that is not the case with this particular adventure.
Most middle schoolers will probably enjoy the chaotic misadventures that result from Bob's inadvertent time travel. But be warned, if any reader's sense of humour leans towards the more subtle, this book is definitely of the "farts are the funniest" school of thought...
I received a free copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review
November 14, 2023
Read it with my son. He adored it
August 9, 2023
This is a great book 2 in the Bob vs serious and I enjoyed as much than the first one. Love the fact that Bob, Gloria and Malc are such great friends and feels like a real friendship with all the joking and ribbing each other. This one had me laughing out loud during most of the chapters and I liked that Eno was still one of the main "villains" of the story. Ideal for anyone who loves laugh out loud with a bit of time travel and farting thrown in! I also found it amusing with the aromavirus, lockdowns and mask wearing - great nod to the covid 19 pandemic. And also the commentary about smart devices left me with lots to think about - who knows if in the future all those conversations they have listened in on will have been saved up to use?!
Brilliant , humorous and I couldn't put it down. Can't wait to see what Bob's next time travelling adventure is (even though the time travelling bit blows my mind - well done Andy Jones for planning it all out!)
Brilliant , humorous and I couldn't put it down. Can't wait to see what Bob's next time travelling adventure is (even though the time travelling bit blows my mind - well done Andy Jones for planning it all out!)
July 30, 2023
This is a very funny book and someone needs to invent these trousers please!! Dads terrible jokes are so bad they are laugh out loud funny. I read this with my son who has requested the next book by Andy Jones ASAP. I would recommend to all kids that love reading
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