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(More customer reviews)This short book (fewer than 100 pages) is a quirky, fun read. The author, Erik Mortensen, has considerable talent and his approach to telling a story is no doubt influenced by his work with his theater group.
The story takes place in several kingdoms, at a time where there are knights and dragons and mysteries. The protagonists are an unlikely pair; a cook and a conman; Higgins and Randall. They cross paths in difficult times -- Higgin's has lost his job and someone is attempting to kill Randall because he is such a lousy poet-- and the cook certainly doesn't want anything to do with the conman Randall, but after Randall saves his life, there just doesn't seem to be any way to avoid becoming entangled in his schemes.
The writing, as you would expect in such a short book, is spare. The plot is well devised and thought out for the most part, and is driven by a Monty Python-esque humor.
I would have given the book a higher rating excepting that I thought the ending was a bit rushed. This impression was unfortunately driven home, to me, by one or two errors that occurred at the end. In one place, I am quite sure that the author meant to say 'enchanted sword' and not just 'enchanted' -- as in 'he was adorned in his armour of cookery supplies and he held the enchanted'. And in a couple of other places the sentences were just a bit garbled. Very unfortunate as it marred an otherwise well done piece.
If you are looking for something light and swift with a chipper, tongue-in-cheek tone, do consider "Sir Cook, the Knight?"
Pam T~
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