Review: Non-stop over-the-top Adventures, Misadventures, and a Furby
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 19, 2012
And a very large but very friendly plastic-eating slug.  And a mostly-out-of his mind starship pilot named for British highwayman Richard Turpin. And a quasi-British far-outpost--very far out--that models its culture on its perception of London's Sixties, Beatles, big hair and all. But it's the least weird of the places Ant and Cleo go.The three main characters, all adolescents, gain dimension as the story rushes on; each one has enough strengths and weaknesses to avoid becoming cliches.  (No, the Furby is not a main character but how many books even have a Furby as a perhaps-necessary but certainly amusing part of the plot?  Luckily Cleo is fluent in Furbish . . ..)This book calls for a sequel of some sort because the Very Bad Men are still active at the end.  And even if Ant (Anthony) and Cleo (Cleopatra) are safe for the moment, Who Knows What MIght Happen Next.  (Warning: if a local warehouse suddenly loses its stocks of extra-soft toilet paper, assorted flavored junk-food snacks and beer, start watching for the UFO leaving this world.)Great fun, thought-provoking but not while you're reading, very well written and well proofread, this book is now on my Favorites list.