Tintin in the New World: A Romance Book

Tintin by Hergé was one of my favorite childhood characters, but once I was grown up I realized that he really seems to be a teenager with an adult job, and adult life. He is grown up, and he is not grown up. There seems to be a contradiction in the character.

I somehow got it into my head that Tuten was going to explore this unusual nature of Tintin, yank him into adulthood so to speak, and because I was such a fan of Tintin as a kid I was interested in seeing what he could do with it.

I have to admit that I was disappointed in the end. The book is based on an interesting idea, but I was never able to connect with it in any way. Maybe I should have given up on it, but I wanted to see if it would come together in the end. It didn't, not for me at least. I still think this is an interesting idea, but there is something in it that didn't work for me. Maybe it is his sense of humor that is so far from mine, or something.

The feeling I was left with at the end was that I had been missing something for the entire novel. Still it is an interesting idea. I don't think I will re-read it to try to find that missing piece, I'll just re- read Hergé's work instead.