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Kill the Farm Boy
The Tales of Pell · Book 1 · 2018
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A quest to wake a princess draws a curious company across Pell: a talking goat, a bard with a rabbit's body, and adventurers poorly suited to the roles a fairy tale usually assigns them. A cheese-loving Dark Lord is among their problems.
From the publisher’s blurb
“There is a Chosen One, but he is unlike any One who has ever been Chosened.”Read the full description at Publisher description, Del Rey
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What makes it funny?
The castle's sleeping curse leaves a guard endlessly eating the same mouthful of pie. The narration treats his predicament as an eating record, finding something ridiculous in a spell that other fairy tales hurry past.
The comedy at work
Dawson and Hearne pick at the details of chosen heroes and grand quests. Puns, foolish names and practical failures interrupt the expected march toward glory.
Try this if…
A taste for puns helps here. Readers who enjoy fantasy conventions being pulled apart may welcome a quest that makes room for extended jokes and deliberate silliness.
Good to know
Expect bodily-function jokes. The story frequently pauses for humor; Kirkus found that the number of gags sometimes slowed its momentum.
A few distinguishing details
- A talking goat joins the quest
- A sleeping curse sets an eating record
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Sources & further reading
- Kill the Farm Boy by Kevin Hearne, Delilah S. Dawson | Penguin Random House
Publisher
- Kill the Farm Boy: The Tales of Pell (Unabridged) by Kevin Hearne & Delilah S Dawson on Apple Books
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