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Not as funny as it thinks it is, but not terrible, either.

Kill the Farm Boy (The Tales of Pell, #1) by Kevin Hearne & Delilah S. Dawson

December 13, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

I was hoping to like this a lot more than I did. And because I’m probably going to Review Amnesty the third book in this series, which I read in November for a book club meeting I didn’t end up attending, this review will also touch on that one a little and the series as a whole. Which is not as funny as it thinks it is. I like the idea of taking traditional fantasy tropes and structuring a book so as to poke fun […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, Delilah S. Dawson, kevin hearne, Kevin Hearne & Delilah S. Dawson, Kill the Farm Boy, narfna, parody, spoof, the tales of pell

narfna's CBR14 Review No:214 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, Delilah S. Dawson, kevin hearne, Kevin Hearne & Delilah S. Dawson, Kill the Farm Boy, narfna, parody, spoof, the tales of pell ·
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More Puns, Less Poop Please

August 5, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

If you like potty humor, read this. You can’t go 2 pages without poop. On rare occasion peeing or farting might be substituted. This novel is basically a parody of the Princess Bride, except that Wesley or rather Worstley (brother of Bestley) gets pancaked by an Amazonian-like warrior who really likes rose gardening named Fia. She falls on him and for once the realistic thing happens even though Worstley may be the Chosen One thanks to Staph the Pixie. But since there is magic in […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy Tagged With: Delilah S. Dawson, fantasy, kevin hearne, Kill the Farm Boy, parody

CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:49 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy · Tags: Delilah S. Dawson, fantasy, kevin hearne, Kill the Farm Boy, parody ·
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