A review by czarina_misha
And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I had low expectations and yet I was still just meh about it when I finished. Artemis Fowl creator Eoin Colfer added another installment to The Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. This is part 6, at least by its reckoning. It’s meh sci-fi. None of the silliness and fast pace of Douglas Adams’s original. Not as fun as Colfer’s Fowl books. It picks up where one of the previous books left off with Arthur Dent and friends on an Earth waiting for Vogon destruction. I don’t remember a lot of the story’s recent events. Mostly Harmless was pretty bad and there was maybe another between that and this—or maybe Colfer just made up some nonsense knowing only the most serious diehard fans reread from Thanks for All the Fish on. Anyway, the Vogons are outsourcing destruction these days and they’re not really much as villains on a good day. There’s a colony of Earth survivors on a distant planet. Wowbagger is still around but kind of bored with the whole insulting everything in the galaxy schtick. Thor flies in to save the day. I can’t believe any of it will make sense if you haven’t read at least the original three, and if you’ve read all of the books and short story you probably don’t really care anymore. This is just to complete the set as it were. Now let’s let poor Douglas Adams rest in peace.