![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The writing is nothing great (and doesn't pretend to be, breaking the 4th wall all the time), but it's a fun little adventure.ĬALL: A cow with her dead calf half-born.ĪCTION: Put on boots and pulled dead calf out while standing in a field full of mud. Puppy love = adorable.Īnyway, I read this because it was free and decently reviewed among middle school set librarians. ![]() As it is, I could happily read a G-rated romance between them while Jarrah (awesome mixed race Aussie girl) saves the world. If Mack weren't 12, the slash would write itself. Meanwhile, Mack's bodyguard and former bully is a 15 year old blond Adonis named Stefan, who can pass for 21 and who is devoted to Mack. Mack himself is 12, very clever, a smartass, and terrified of a long list of specific things, meaning he isn't at all afraid of the things people usually are. Warning for animal harm (against poisonous snakes) that read as all-too-realistic when compared to later, cartoonishly drawn, battles against high fantasy monsters. Gender-politics tag because the major villains are female, and while there are some neutral-to-positive female characters, this is a great example of the puerocracy/paedocracy at work: 12 year old boy has to defeat the evil females and also decide how much to embrace the good females. Disability tag for two elderly and debilitated characters, both portrayed as grotesque and horrible, even though only one is a bad guy. ![]()
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