Sunday, January 17, 2021

Cosmoe’s Wiener Getaway by Max Brallier - HIGH

Cosmoe’s Wiener Getaway (Galactic Hot Dogs Book 1) by Max Brallier, 300 pages. Aladdin (Simon & Schuster), 2020. $20. 

Language: G (0 swears); Mature Content G; Violence: G 

BUYING ADVISORY: EL – OPTIONAL 

AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH 

Cosmoe is an earthling who travels with some unlikely aliens aboard the flying food truck, The Neon Wiener. Along the way, he picks up a half evil Princess Dagger whose mother is the Queen of evil. Cosmoe and company fight their way across the galaxy, avoiding Queen Dagger and awakening Ultimate Evil. 

If you have ADHD and you don’t like to delve too deeply into character or plot development, this could work for you. The storyline moves along at a frenetic pace. I suppose anything that uses the word wiener multiple times and a protagonist that has a rubbery elastic blob that can work as a fart dampener will appeal to prepubescent boys. Audiences may find themselves polarized between loving and tolerating this series. This is one wild ride that left me a little dazed at the end. 

 Michelle in the Middle 

No comments:

Post a Comment

Welcome to Kiss the Book Jr.!

Welcome! Kiss the Book Jr. is for board books, picture books, early readers, and chapter books.  Also, any novels and non-fiction that we ag...