UncoveredMyths reviewed Myth Directions by Robert Asprin
Review of 'Myth Directions' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
A childhood favorite re-visited.
Is the story as good as I remember? – Yes
What ages would I recommend it too? – Twelve and up. While ten to twelve might enjoy it, there are many ideas they will not understand. Though, they will certainly get many of the jokes.
Length? – Reasonable for an afternoon.
Characters? – Memorable, several characters.
Setting? – Fantasy, alternate dimensions.
Written approximately? – 1982.
Does the story leave questions in the readers mind? – Ready to read more.
Any issues the author (or a more recent publisher) should cover? No.
Short storyline: Skeeve and Tanda search for the ultimate birthday gift for Aahz. While dimension hopping, Sheeve perfects his disguise spell. At last, Tanda picks the perfect gift, and in the process of procuring it, she gets caught, and Skeeve has to return home to get Aahz, and eventually the rest of his previous recruits …
A childhood favorite re-visited.
Is the story as good as I remember? – Yes
What ages would I recommend it too? – Twelve and up. While ten to twelve might enjoy it, there are many ideas they will not understand. Though, they will certainly get many of the jokes.
Length? – Reasonable for an afternoon.
Characters? – Memorable, several characters.
Setting? – Fantasy, alternate dimensions.
Written approximately? – 1982.
Does the story leave questions in the readers mind? – Ready to read more.
Any issues the author (or a more recent publisher) should cover? No.
Short storyline: Skeeve and Tanda search for the ultimate birthday gift for Aahz. While dimension hopping, Sheeve perfects his disguise spell. At last, Tanda picks the perfect gift, and in the process of procuring it, she gets caught, and Skeeve has to return home to get Aahz, and eventually the rest of his previous recruits (including Gleep) to play a deadly game to retrieve both Tanda, and the birthday gift.
Notes for the reader: In this story, this author takes the emotions of his characters seriously. The characters don’t just race through the story full of action without emotion. The author realized the importance of the reader connecting to the characters by giving us the emotions, and even the reasons behind those sometimes odd emotions for the situation. While the first few times, it is a shock to the system to actually read of a character having an emotion, soon, it just becomes an enhancement to the story. In fact, when the lack of emotions by the main character becomes apparent in a later story, even that is noted by all the characters, until it is resolved.
