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mehsi's review against another edition
4.0
Dit was weer een heerlijk verhaal! Lekker veel fourth wall sloperijen, een quest op zoek naar een monster (de VELLEK!), een slechte keizer (die strontvervelend is en maar eens mag oprotten), en meer.
Vanwege de keizer geef ik dit boek wel een sterretje minder. Sorry, ik vind het niet erg om via Eddie's POV te lezen over de keizer, maar ik hoef geen stukjes met de man zelf. Wat een kwal. Hij heeft het zeker verdiend wat er met hem gebeurde aan het einde en ik lag dus zeker dubbel.
En ik blijf ook bij wat ik zei in de review van het vorige boek, moet je nou echt namen vertalen? In deze tijd en eeuw waar mensen kinderen namen geven als Chukwukadibie of Fyra dan moet een Engelse naam toch gewoon kunnen?
De quest was ook erg leuk, en ik moest wel lachen om Nanda die dus steeds een nieuw couplet schreef over iets randoms in de quest. :P
Ik kan niet wachten op het volgende verhaal!
Vanwege de keizer geef ik dit boek wel een sterretje minder. Sorry, ik vind het niet erg om via Eddie's POV te lezen over de keizer, maar ik hoef geen stukjes met de man zelf. Wat een kwal. Hij heeft het zeker verdiend wat er met hem gebeurde aan het einde en ik lag dus zeker dubbel.
En ik blijf ook bij wat ik zei in de review van het vorige boek, moet je nou echt namen vertalen? In deze tijd en eeuw waar mensen kinderen namen geven als Chukwukadibie of Fyra dan moet een Engelse naam toch gewoon kunnen?
De quest was ook erg leuk, en ik moest wel lachen om Nanda die dus steeds een nieuw couplet schreef over iets randoms in de quest. :P
Ik kan niet wachten op het volgende verhaal!
katykelly's review
5.0
Bonkers sequel - great fun for young readers/listeners
My son adored the first King Edwin book and was very excited to see this second in the series. These are completely off-the-wall bonkers stories but very, very funny and entertaining and my son complained each evening when I put in a bookmark and refused to read another chapter.
Edwin and his subjects are all suffering form being made to eat 50 portions of vegetables a day by Minister Jill. It is almost a relief when news comes (from a possibly naked hermit) that a terrifying creature called a Voolith is on the rampage. Edwin decides to go and face it in 'single combat', not knowing quite what this actually means.
With Minister Jill, Megan the Jester and Colin the horse beside him, Edwin must face yet again Emperor Nurbison before he takes on the Voolith.
My son and I both love Nurbison and his 'foo hoo hoo hoo' evil laugh. He's a great evil antagonist and Riley has a lot of fun playing with conventions (he reads books giving evil words each day to use) - we loved Nurbison's (mega mega mega mega) megaphone.
Very visual, pictures abound on every page, the characters are very easy to voice and there are lots of minor characters with quirks you look forward to and recognise. The author even manages a moral message or two, as well as including some exciting scenes (monster rampaging, volcano finale).
Edwin is a good role model hero, aged nine, with adults around him that are both sensible and comic.
Fun to read aloud and suitable for independent readers (short chapters), there's a short comic strip at the end that we liked and a funny endpage that you need to turn around and around to read. Thanks for that Mr Riley!
One for ages 6-11. We can't wait for the next in the series.
My son adored the first King Edwin book and was very excited to see this second in the series. These are completely off-the-wall bonkers stories but very, very funny and entertaining and my son complained each evening when I put in a bookmark and refused to read another chapter.
Edwin and his subjects are all suffering form being made to eat 50 portions of vegetables a day by Minister Jill. It is almost a relief when news comes (from a possibly naked hermit) that a terrifying creature called a Voolith is on the rampage. Edwin decides to go and face it in 'single combat', not knowing quite what this actually means.
With Minister Jill, Megan the Jester and Colin the horse beside him, Edwin must face yet again Emperor Nurbison before he takes on the Voolith.
My son and I both love Nurbison and his 'foo hoo hoo hoo' evil laugh. He's a great evil antagonist and Riley has a lot of fun playing with conventions (he reads books giving evil words each day to use) - we loved Nurbison's (mega mega mega mega) megaphone.
Very visual, pictures abound on every page, the characters are very easy to voice and there are lots of minor characters with quirks you look forward to and recognise. The author even manages a moral message or two, as well as including some exciting scenes (monster rampaging, volcano finale).
Edwin is a good role model hero, aged nine, with adults around him that are both sensible and comic.
Fun to read aloud and suitable for independent readers (short chapters), there's a short comic strip at the end that we liked and a funny endpage that you need to turn around and around to read. Thanks for that Mr Riley!
One for ages 6-11. We can't wait for the next in the series.
iamfoundinbooks's review
5.0
I had a good time reading this. There was an actual lesson and it was actually pretty funny. This could easily work as a kids cartoon because it hits the same beats.
bibliopaat's review against another edition
4.0
I never know about these kind of books. It seems to me that it would be more funny to an adult than to the child. So much fun wordplay and critique towards society. And I find the monster to be sooo cuuuute.
stanzilla's review
5.0
So stupid-funny-over the top!
I get to use all my funny voices (and the echo function on our karaoke microphone for the Evil Laughs), my 11 year old gets to roll her eyes at me while giggling, and my 6 year old gets to laugh until his belly hurts.
I get to use all my funny voices (and the echo function on our karaoke microphone for the Evil Laughs), my 11 year old gets to roll her eyes at me while giggling, and my 6 year old gets to laugh until his belly hurts.
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