November 2014, Woolly Family Studios, 180 pages, Ebook, Review copy
Content: peril, mild romance,
Summary from Amazon UK (I don't benefit by mentioning them)
If you're looking for trouble, you've found it. The name's Jake G.
Panda, and trouble seems to follow me wherever I go. I work in the
protection racket at a flophouse for endangered critters called the Last
Resort. I'm the hotel snoop. The resident fuzz. It's my job to keep
these guests safe and outta harm's way. This is the first of my many
misadventures. A wild and woolly mystery involving a lost suitcase, a
green bird, and a bunch of double-crossing animals. I'm calling it The
Case of the Cursed Dodo.
Nayu's thoughts
Someone
in my family adores panda, and I happen to think they are cute. It
made it really hard to see Jake as a tough Panda, I just kept
thinking how sweet he must be underneath the professional exterior.
If you think dodos are dead, well think again for this adventure
definitely has one in it! Jake has to do battle with plans going not
exactly according to plan, and dealing with unexpected enemies who
really put a spanner in the works of his mission. He rises to the
challenge and is able to unravel the mystery before I do – as usual
I gave up trying to figure things out and just kept reading.
I gave
this 8/10E mostly because I found it a bit disjointed having the
scenes explained in the way they were. I'd get into the story for a
chapter, then be pulled out of it for the start of the next. I can
appreciate that for a lot of readers this helps set the scene in
their minds, and helps recap the previous chapter, but for me I like
a fully flowing story. I'm interested in reading more adventures from
Jake because the humour made me laugh and the adventures were just a
little crazy.
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