When a shape-shifting robot needs help to save the world, it's time for this young gamer to level up!
Axel is an awesome gamer who needs a friend, and BEAST is a huge robot on the run from the nasty Grabbem Industries. Together, Axel and BEAST will take on the bad guys and try to the save the world from their evil money-making schemes!
In Tropical Tangle, the heartless Grabbem Industries are planning to have a BLAST on a tropical island – a NUCLEAR blast! Axel and Beast have to stop Grabbem, no matter what. But what if that means splitting up?
Packed with exciting action, awesome apps and the greatest friends ever, this series is perfect for kids who are eager to start reading, but prone to dropping off. It’s Big Hero 6 meets Transformers, with hilarious characters and high-tech adventure that will propel 7+ readers over the finish line as easily as their favourite cartoon series!
Third entry in the shape shifting robot and boy series and again they take on the same bad guys with predictable results. This could be actually really terrible, but it is ok, and does have some moments which are enjoyable, but don't expect anything highbrow here, or anything that will be a lasting memory either.
I didn't like this one nearly as much as the first two stories. I feel like there wasn't really a moral to the story or any growth in the characters. All there was was BEAST being unsure of himself and thinking he was useless. But with Axel as the main character, it makes it complicated from a reader's perspective. I would've loved a chapter from BEAST's point of view.
My kids have been enjoying the series, but I was disappointed to learn that in book 4 the robot Beast actually turns out to be a homosexual robot. Yep. I was nauseated by the environmental premise of the evil corporation potentially blowing up a coral reef with a nuke, but this is just so sad and desperate. Is it really the purpose of fiction to instill a pseudo-morality?