UncoveredMyths reviewed Hit or Myth by Robert Asprin (Myth Adventures, #4)
Review of "Hit or Myth (Robert Asprin's Myth)" 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? – Most of a day’s read.
Characters? – Memorable, several characters.
Setting? – Fantasy, alternate dimensions.
Written approximately? – 1983.
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: Everyone is obviously ready for a vacation. Aahz is kidnapped by his nephew, leaving Skeeve alone. The king wants a days vacation, and calls on Skeeve’s disguise spell, to replace him for a day (which turns out to be a lot longer than a day.) Skeeve is left to figure out how …
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? – Most of a day’s read.
Characters? – Memorable, several characters.
Setting? – Fantasy, alternate dimensions.
Written approximately? – 1983.
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: Everyone is obviously ready for a vacation. Aahz is kidnapped by his nephew, leaving Skeeve alone. The king wants a days vacation, and calls on Skeeve’s disguise spell, to replace him for a day (which turns out to be a lot longer than a day.) Skeeve is left to figure out how to get the king home for his marriage to a queen he doesn’t want, protect the kingdom (and retired mob warriors from “Myth Conceptions”) from the mob, as well as get himself fired so he can get a vacation himself.
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.
