From the creators of the Edge Chronicles comes Hugo Pepper, another tale from the Far Flung Adventures series. Hugo Pepper is a young boy who lives in the Far North with his reindeer herding foster parents. He was discovered by the snow giants after polar bears had killed and eaten his parents. The snow giants took him to the reindeer herders house where he grew up. One day, Hugo discovers a flying machine underneath some logs. It belongs to his real parents and inside is a device that will take him and the flying machine home.
Hugo crash lands in Firefly Square, where he is taken in by two mermaids who run the local antique shop. They knew his parents. Everybody in Firefly Square did.
Currently the shopkeepers of Firefly Square are losing their livelyhoods due to the malicious gossiping of the Firefly Quarterly, a magazine run by a slimy editor. With the help of Hugo and some snow giants, the inhabitants of the square must fight back.
I really enjoyed this story. The characters were excellent and the way that the story was told was very clever. Nearly every other chapter is a story based on the inhabitants of Firefly Square's past. The next chapter then relates to that story. The authors even splice in a treasure hunt and a tale of notorious pirate gone good.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
No comments:
Post a Comment