Loved itI do think it's a book that is just super fun and enjoyable and made me laugh and smile and roll my eyes multiple times and I definitely enjoyed the fact that it's a very self-aware book
Theatre of the gods (2013)
Others: Positive This is the story of M. Francisco Fabrigas, explorer, philosopher, and heretical physicist, who took a shipful of children on a frightening voyage to the next dimension, assisted by a teenaged Captain, a brave deaf boy, a cunning blind girl, and a sultry botanist, all the while pursued by the Pope of the universe and a well-dressed mesmerist. Dark plots, demonic cults, murderous jungles, quantum mayhem, the birth of creation, the death of time, and a creature called the Sweety: all this and more waits beyond the veil of reality. Tolkien and Verne meet Douglas Adams and Pratchett, care of Gulliver's Travels.
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- 9780099575641
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Genres: fantasy
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