Title: Kill the Farm Boy
Authors: Kevin Hearne & Delilah S. Dawson
Genre: Fantasy Satire
Pages: 384
Rating: 2 of 5
Future Release Date: 7/17/18 (Thank you to the authors and publisher for a free eARC through NetGalley. This in no way affects the content of this review)
This book promised to be a hilarious romp through every imaginable fantasy trope. If your sense of humor is that of the average young teenage boy, it might deliver on that promise. There were some laugh out loud moments, but the truly clever bits were buried under a flood of adolescent humor. The book is essential one big compilation of gross-out jokes and innuendos (e.g. the elven kingdom of Morningwood provides the authors a seemingly endless source of raunchy puns).
I can’t say much about the plot without spoilers, but I will say that they did indeed cleverly tweak most of the classic tropes. What they did with the “chosen one” trope was particularly entertaining. For me, the constant stream of poo & sex jokes got old very quickly and overshadowed the cleverness. For humorous/satirical fantasy I’d recommend sticking with Discworld or maybe Peril in the Old Country (another eARC I reviewed here).
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Well, that is disappointing. I was rather looking forward to this book in a couple of months, but now that I know it’s lowbrow, bodily function style humor, I’m going to have to consider if I really want to read this. I don’t like that kind of humor at all.
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It really was a shame that they laid on the raunchy stuff so thick because there was some real cleverness underneath.
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That’s a shame. I wanted to read this because of the humor – but adolescent toilet humor was not exactly what I had in mind.
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The most disappointing thing is that they really didn’t need it. They probably could have cut out 75% of the raunchy/gross jokes and be left with a shorter (maybe 200ish pages) but much better book.
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