Review: When my favorite character is a zombie chicken...
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 23, 2014
My favorite character was Fred, the zombie chicken.  My second favorite was Petunia--the pink mastodon.  That doesn't say much about the main characters, does it?(mild spoiler alert coming)Goldie, the main character -- goodness golly gawrsh, she is just so cute!  ... but wait! She wants to be taken seriously, and thinks of herself as a serious threat with her magical sword (huh? Did she even use it in this book or did I happen to skim over that part?) but she defaults to cute. Did she even lawyer up?  (have to admit I skimmed) Her extended family members are soooo talented in their own ways (but of course they are!).  The "bad guy" was just cray-cray and his manner of getting magic was disturbing, and describing the found remains of the bodies of magical creatures really did push the limits and could have been handled in a different, but effective way.Bottom line is that this book had potential, but really, I don't care about Goldie, I don't care about the Ordinary, and I sure don't care about the were bears and anything else that happens in the next book(s).