Aaron Blabey’s Cut to the Chase is the thirteenth Bad Guys book, a very silly and very LOUD comic-style adventure for 7 year olds where the gang fall into a world that’s sharp all over.<\/p>\n
It carries straight on from the last book, and the gang have split into two teams. Wolf, Shark and Piranha are with Agent Fox, hopping from universe to universe after an evil centipede with an electric guitar. Legs and the others are stuck in a spaceship that won’t stop looping (the chapter is called The Vomit Comet, which tells you everything).<\/p>\n
The new universe is a strange one. Everyone floats. Each night lasts about thirty seconds and leaves them covered in jagged little bits of glass. The ruler, Underlord Shard, has chainsaws for hands. Who’d want to stay there for long?<\/p>\n
Up in space, a king they ask for help orders his ships to blow them out of the sky. Their getaway ship turns out to be a rubbish freighter shaped like a giant bottom (it’s a HAND, the pilot keeps insisting). Then a one-eyed bull called Buck Thunders turns up to save them, and nobody trusts him one bit.<\/p>\n
Reading it is a lot like reading a cartoon strip. Nearly every page is a big picture with a speech bubble or a strip of panels. Some pages are nothing but FOOF! or SPLOOF! in the dark. The words are few and big, and lots of the jokes are in the faces. A child reading alone can finish it in a sitting or two.<\/p>\n
The humour is classic Bad Guys. Piranha keeps chatting to his papa across two dimensions without realising he’s doing it. Shark offers his thick skin as a shield (it isn’t thick enough). There’s a sweet start too, with Wolf dreaming about the day he first met Snake and scared off two bullies.<\/p>\n
Worth knowing before you hand it over. This one’s darker than the early books. The villains shout a lot about destroying everyone. One of the gang is put under a spell and turns a cannon on her friends for a while. And there’s plenty of chainsaw noise. Nobody gets hurt in a way you see (Shark does have a LOT of glass picked out of him). A child who’s easily scared by monsters might want a grown-up close by. A fan who’s come this far will probably love it.<\/p>\n
It ends on a TO BE CONTINUED, so be ready for requests.<\/p>\n
If your reader hasn’t met the gang yet, don’t start here. Go back to the first Bad Guys book and meet Wolf, Snake, Shark and Piranha at the very beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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