The Seaquel

My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish #2

by Mo O'Hara

After Tom rescued Frankie the goldfish from his big brother Mark’s toxic science experiment by zapping him back to life with a battery, Frankie somehow became a BIG FAT ZOMBIE GOLDFISH with dangerous hypnotic powers. Fortunately, Frankie has appointed himself Tom’s bodyguard, and together, with a little help from their friends, they thwart Mark’s Evil Scientist plans.

Tom is looking forward to their annual family trip to the seaside, right up until he hears about the Evil Eel of Eel Bay—a monster that Mark is entirely too interested in. After all, even a BIG FAT ZOMBIE GOLDFISH might have a little trouble with a Super Electric Zombie Eel!

Then, Frankie takes center stage to rescue Tom’s school play from Mark’s evil plans.

Genres: Childrens, Fiction, Humor, Chapter Books, Juvenile, Fantasy, 2nd Grade

224 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2013

About the author

"Originally from America, I moved to London because I wanted to live abroad but spoke no foreign languages. After a brief and unsuccessful stint as a serving wench at the Tower of London I found work as an actress and comedy performer. I’ve perfomed regularly at Edinburgh and London comedy festivals. A few years back I got a job touring around the UK as a storyteller and that’s when I discovered that kids liked, laughed at and didn’t fall asleep when I performed stuff that I wrote myself. I was hooked on writing and performing for kids..."

Reviews

[Gary Butler · Rating 4 out of 5]

46th book read in 2018.

Number 443 out of 706 on my all time book list.

Cute and funny; almost as good as the first one.

[❤Marie Gentilcore · Rating 4 out of 5]

My 8-year old daughter and I read this during our before bedtime reading. We both enjoyed it. You actually get 2 stories in one book. We liked the first story about the eel and the lighthouse the best. The second story about the Robin Hood play was good too. We will read more books in this series about Frankie the Zombie Goldfish.

[Kieran Cobb · Rating 4 out of 5]

pradeep and tom went on a trip to a lighthouse that was about 5 hours away and along the way pradeep had threw up in "Big Barf Bag" that his mom got off the internet. Frankie tom zombie goldfish was in a cooler. Sammi who was hypnotized in the last story had got the cooler open and then said "Swishy little fishy" and her dad who was coming along for the trip had heard her and he said "what was that honey" but thankfully tom had covered for her and told her dad that she was just excited to see all the fish. But when pradeep and tom saw the sign to the light house there was a sentence that looked like it was painted on yesterday and it gave tom and pradeep a chill up there spine. The sign read "Welcome eel bay", Don't feed the eels...Especially the Evil one. when tom and pradeep woke up in the lighthouse they didn't feel like going for a swim. mark toms brother who decided to come also saw the sign was determined to make the eel his pet so he took a row boat out that was on the docks and took in a little fishing just then an electric eel jumped out of the water and he was on marks line he had that evil grin on his face and mark knew he was the evil eel but right as he was about to pull the evil eel in with his fishing rod it.......................................

[Willemijn jufwillemijnopallstars · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tom en Pradeep zijn weer de hoofdpersonen in dit hilarische boek. Hoewel de goudvis Frankie natuurlijk ook een grote rol heeft. Tom en Pradeep gaat met hun vaders en broer/zusje een weekend weg. Ze gaan slapen in een vuurtoren waar nooit iemand komt. Ze komen een superzombie-aal tegen en Mark, de stomme broer van Tom, vindt het maar reuze interessant. Er gaat natuurlijk veel mis, maar ook veel komt weer goed (het blijft een kinderboek).

Het tweede verhaal is een stuk serieuzer. Tom en Pradeep doen voor de lol auditie voor een musical, maar per ongeluk mag Pradeep de hoofdrol spelen. Dit verandert veel in de vriendschap. Frankie de zombie goudvis speelt uiteindelijk ook een rol in deze schoolmusical.

Mijn dikke vette zombie goudvis #2 is een goed vervolg op het eerste deel. Je zou het los kunnen lezen, maar dan weet je niet hoe Frankie een zombie is geworden in plaats van een gewone goudvis. De boeken zijn hilarisch door de gekke wetenschap en rare grappen, maar er zitten zeker ook herkenbare situaties in voor kinderen zonder zombie goudvis.

[TheBookWorm🐛 🐛 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just like the last book, I don’t really have any complaints, but instead of me going in about how I didn’t really find the book that interesting, I’m going to talk about my favorite parts. My favorite character has to be Frankie the zombie goldfish. I mean, come one! He is a zombie goldfish that can hypnotize people to do whatever he wants them to. He is also very smart, and can really kick butt. My least favorite character is probably Mark. Some people really like the villain and stuff, and I do too, but Mark just isn’t the brightest cookie in the barrel, and his plots are a little obsessive.

[Angie Gazdziak · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is nuts b/c we started reading this book in 2024 but my son wanted to put it on the back burner. We kept starting and stopping and it clearly took us nearly 10 months, but we got it done. I didn't enjoy it as much as I did the previous book, but it's still fun and funny and good for independent readers.

[Emerson and Theodore · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read in big bear, excited to read next in series.

[Michele Burkholder · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun book to read with your child.

[Brittany · Rating 2 out of 5]

Here we have another installment of My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish and sadly, I can't say this one was any better than the first. I believe we both enjoyed the first, actually. This second installment fell short in entertainment value.

As is the way the books are written, The Seaquel has two "episodes" of stories. Unlike in the first book, where the stories felt seamless, the two stories in this book were literally two separate unrelated stories. Each of the stories had its own plot and we still follow along with Pradeep and Tom, and Tom's arrogant older brother Mark.

The stories, however, just didn't keep us entertained. The kiddo fell asleep every night while I was reading and I was bored to tears and couldn't wait until I was done. There was just nothing fun to follow along with. If I recall correctly, even the zombie goldfish didn't have a whole lot of action in this one and he's part of the book!

And of course my issue with Mark continues. I know all older brothers pick on their littles, but Mark is just way too damn rude. Definitely nothing compared to the more mellowed out Mark from the companion series.

Maybe the next installment will be better.

[Carlos · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book will seriously build a suspence on you while reading. In the story Mo o'hara explains the theme across the whole story. The theme of this story is not all friemds will be with you at all times.
In the beggining of the story they were all together and the older brother was a evil scientist but then later on in the story the brother will do a expirement on his friend which turned him into a zombie.
this is an amazing book and all of you should read it now.

[Drucilla · Rating 3 out of 5]

Actual rating: 3.5 stars. I really wanted to give this book 4 stars, but I think the "Robin Hood" story is the weakest one we've seen. O'Hara's writing is still great, though. She manages to write for kids, not down to them. And Frankie is still awesome, of course.

[Bowen Li · Rating 5 out of 5]

Have you read the first book? Please read the first book. This book is a continue of the first book. The zombie goes crazy. Mark the evil scientist made a normal goldfish into a zombie goldfish. I love this book. Now the zombie goldfish does revenge. Read this book.

[Alexander · Rating 5 out of 5]

it was a very interesting book to read.

[Victor · Rating 5 out of 5]

same cool and scary

[McKenzie Richardson · Rating 4 out of 5]

For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CycleYes! Another fantastic book in the Big Fat Zombie Goldfish series. This is such a fun series to read. Perfect for reluctant readers. The writing is funny, simple, gross, and highly entertaining. The book itself is broken down into two stories, "The Mystery of the Zombie Vacation" and "To Be a Zombie or Not to Be a Zombie... That is the Question". Both were great reads. The book also includes fun illustrations, which make reading even more enjoyable. While I did read the first book, I think this book could be read without any knowledge of the first book. There is enough explanation and references in this book that the reader can still easily follow the plot without prior knowledge of the characters and story. As with the first, only real downside is the Evil Scientist brother's use of the world "morons". Definitely an understandable and relatable use of the word, but not necessarily something you want a kid to start using. Fantastic read. Excited to start the third book.

[Cara · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent sequel.

Though I'm not sure why there are two stories, I liked both of them and they were very different.

First story - Tom, Pradeep, and Sammi are all excellent characters. Mark, Tom's evil brother, is always up to no good. It's essentially the book version of Scooby Doo with kids instead of teenagers. The families are on a vacation with their fathers and they hear about an evil eel lurking in the bay that's scaring away all of the customers. Mark wants to capture it for some nefarious schemes. Tom and friends have to stop him.

Second story - Takes place at school. The boys try out for the school play. Pradeep hits it big and gets the lead role of Robin Hood while Tom is a baker who has a single line. Pradeep lets his new-found fame go to his head and suddenly doesn't have time for his best friend since he isn't part of the main cast. The pair butt heads and are no longer talking, but on the night of the play, Mark shows up with a plan to steal the show for himself. It's up to Tom to try to stop him because Pradeep doesn't know what's going on.

[Rai Rp · Rating 3 out of 5]

There where to brotheres and they had a pet gold fish and one of the brothers decied to become a scienceict. Then he did a experoment on the gold fish and put him in the toxic barrel and then the fish dies in the toxic barrel. The the brother decieds to bring him back to lif with electricety and shocks the gold fish and then the gold fish is very fat.

trying to bring somthing back will be hard. try to bring a pet gold fish back with somone in the house will be harder then expected. Dont do somthing that you know that you can not do. have presure in you that no one will find out about it.

I thought that the book was good not the best in the seires but a good book. The part that i hate the most is that the gold fish has hypnoses is not a good thing to have in a pet the just got out of toxic, yes it should have somthing like flying but not hypnoses.

[Ani · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jobban tetszett, mint az első rész, és nem csak amiatt, mert ebben nem bántalmazzák az öccsüket a nagyobb fiúk, hanem mert valahogy szórakoztatóbbak voltak a történetek. Színházi dolgozóként a sulis színielőadáson elég sokat mosolyogtam, de az igazi kedvencem az angolnás sztori volt! Főleg a vége jött be nagyon, picit meg is könnyeztem annak a gonosz angolnának a happy endjét.

Még mindig nagyon jópofák a főszereplők, bár ezúttal mind Pradeepnek, mind Tomnak megismertük egy önző, beképzelt oldalát is. A vicces sztori ellenére is jó volt őket kicsit „elszálltabb” szerepben látni, mert zavaró lenne, ha minden rész arról szólna, hogy ők bezzeg milyen jó gyerekek a Gonosz bátyjaikhoz képest. (Amúgy kicsit hiányzott Pradeep gonosz bátyja…)

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[Josh · Rating 1 out of 5]

I know: One star is pretty harsh for what’s ultimately an innocuous, throwaway children’s book. But there is really nothing about this book to recommend it. The characters are one-note, the storylines tedious, the prose clunky, and the jokes obvious and forced. (Lots of Scooby Doo references, for some reason!) There are much better books for kids. Like, a lot of them. And I think kids deserve better than this.

[Anthony · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tom and Padeep, along with Frankie tries once again to thwart Tom's evil scientist older brother Mark in two separate short stories as Mark tries to capture an evil eel to do his bidding while on vacation at EEL Bay, and as he tries to sabotage the school's production of Robin Hood by convincing a talent scout to choose him as the winner with Frankie's hypnotic powers. Silly over the top action and laughs in both of these two short stories.

[Heather Wadell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lol fun. I picked this out for my advanced six year old and he never wanted to put it down. We started with the 2nd book during a tonsillectomy and are back for the whole series. There are times he would giggle and laugh hysterically..i love that the most.

[Jack Bailey · Rating 4 out of 5]

It defenetly was not my favorite book but I really liked it. I would recommend this book to about 4th or 5th grade readers. My favorite character was Frankie for sure because of how he protects them from Mark and his evil plans.

[Colleen · Rating 5 out of 5]

OMG I love this series so freaking much! Just the right amount of humour and life lessons. The physical book has some illustrations in it, but the audio was super enjoyable and I could picture everything in my mind.

[Camille · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm really not a fan of this series. My son likes it enough to finish it, but he's never super thrilled about them. The second half of this book was a lot more interesting than the first half, though (it's 2 novellas bound in 1 book).

[Derek · Rating 2 out of 5]

Yeah, I just can't get into these books. There's nothing really wrong with them, they are just pretty unremarkable. I guess it's cool that there are two stories in each one. I dunno . . . Frankie shouldn't have been able to survive in saltwater.

[Hayden Hamlin · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was good.

[Robin · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

A cute kids book about a zombie goldfish and his adventures with his owner Tom.
Another fun read.

[Ethan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this book was just the best book I have ever read in my entire life

[Maverick M · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked the book a lot. It had two stories to reading it, and there were many cliff hangersthat I wanted to keep reading.

[Patricia Kaniasty · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very entertaining story. I really like these books and I am an adult. Imagine what kids will think.