Mostly just annoying and boring

Allright I really don't want to talk badly about things, where I am sure that a lot of work went into it and there is probably an audience for it out there. But this book just is just absolutely not my style!

That said I believe that this book aims to be weird and fun in a quirky way, which I usually love very much. What it actually manages though is to be incredibly annoying. Most obviously there is "Gork", whose only charactertrait is being the most obnoxiously obnoxious teenager cliché one can think of (but hey one doesn't necessarily have to like the main character if it is fun to read).
The premise generally sounds quite fun. The style of the book relies on something like a subversion of your normal vocabulary somewhat like the Addams Family, which does the same beautifulyl! This story sadly ends up being mostly cringey. And repetitive. The same adjectives and descriptions are used over and over (and over) again until you just want to scream that yes, I am by now fully aware that you are large and green and scaley and whatnot.... !
(Also I firmly believe that things shouldn't be too obviously explained to the reader, we are sgenerally smart and can figure out what certain gestures for example mean via context)

So yeah I did not manage to finish this book, I suppose there is a (tiny) chance it might be a fantastic story in the end, but I have now listened to well over three hours and I don't want to hear anymore . Not only hasn't there been a lot of plot to actually further the story, but there are so many needlessly absurd details, repetitive phrases and unnecessary descriptions that I know if I were reading this book instead of listening to it, I would be mostly just skimming the pages.
Literally the only reason I managed to get as far as I did was the fact that Brian Hutchison actually does a very good Job at voicing Gork. But not even the best voiceactor could have saved this book.

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