Reviews for Sweet Myth-Tery of Life

The average rating for Sweet Myth-Tery of Life based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-09-21 00:00:00 Tedor Whitman Look, Arthur, some people are men and some people are women. They're made that way so they can dance together! Lucy, I Love Lucy Skeeve just brought Aazh back to his own home dimension only to find a big problem: He either has to marry a Queen with some murderers habits, or face repercussions. Boring tale with the length of about 200 pages follow. In the end it turned out to be a classic case of Much Ado about Nothing (my nod to the Great Bard). What Skeeve knows about women, marriage life, and where the babies come from can be completely covered by my opening quote. Any nun who grew up in a secluded monastery since the early childhood has more knowledge on the subject. This really does not look realistic at all - and I do not mean the nun. The entire book consists of really bad puns (this is the first time of the series such low quality puns made it to the final version), Skeeve's slightly amusing situations coming from his lack of knowledge and a couple of interesting observations on married life. To quote another well-known TV character, "That's all, folks!" We are talking about the series with first five books being the funniest fantasy ever written (sorry, Terry Pratchett). At least the previous one was amusing from the beginning to the end. This one tries, but fails most of the time. 2 stars is the verdict. I am not even completely sure if the second star is due to the book being not completely hopeless, or just to my respect for the series. I do not even have to say much about it.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-05-04 00:00:00 Keith Love I read one or two of the previous books in the Skeeves series and enjoyed them quite a bit. This volume, though, was a huge disappointment for me. Either the books are losing quality in the course of the series or my taste has changed significantly. This book is basically the story of a magic business consultant who is hired to solve the economical problems of a kingdom in financial crisis. A passionate accountant might find this thrilling. I, unfortuately, didn't. I neither found the book funny, even though it obviously is meant to be humorous. Therefore I only can give 1 star, because I really did not like this one.