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A review by craftymxlibrarian
Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi
4.0
A very cute and action-packed story with lots of humorous reference for older kids and adults. But even without knowing what the references refer to, they make perfect sense to the story, so nothing but being in on the joke is lost. One example is a being that is a piece of time who is explaining how complex and fluid time is. The being ends the explanation with "we're all very wibbly-wobbly."
The audio version of this makes the jokes a bit harder to catch though. The narrator tries a bit too hard with her inflections, making nearly the whole book (even narrative parts) seem like the characters and narrator are surprised and confused and maybe just a bit disgusted with everything. I will usually just burn straight through books like this, but it took me longer than usual because I found myself needing breaks from this narrator.
The audio version of this makes the jokes a bit harder to catch though. The narrator tries a bit too hard with her inflections, making nearly the whole book (even narrative parts) seem like the characters and narrator are surprised and confused and maybe just a bit disgusted with everything. I will usually just burn straight through books like this, but it took me longer than usual because I found myself needing breaks from this narrator.