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The Adventures of Myhr | Rating | |
| B | |||
| P. N. Elrod | |||
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Meet Myhr, rhymes with purr. He's half human, half cat, friend of a very powerful wizard named Terrin. And they're both stuck roaming the multiverse trying to get back to Earth. Kind of like a magical version of Sliders. When they pop into a world with a nasty black fog that seems to drain Terrin's magic, things get a bit hairy, and not just for Myhr. If it goes on long enough, Terrin wil die.
This is a pretty good book. Although the story bounces from point of view to point of view a lot, it's never confusing. Myhr is definitely the main character, and he doesn't take things entirely seriously. Including himself. This isn't a comedy, by any means, but it has a certain light tone that is easy to read. The villain is a proper bastard, and the puzzle of what is going on is neither too obvious, in which the reader can't understand why the heroes haven't figured it out yet, nor too obtuse, in which it doesn't make sense even after the explanation. Myhr's feline-ness only occassionally come into play, which can be considered either good or bad.
I do have two problems. The first is that Myhr doesn't remember his origins. He just showed up, an adult, on Terrin's doorstep one day. Nor is he especially curious. There's no, "Who am I?" angst. Well, okay, I suppose I can deal with that, but it is irritating. But it's not as bad as how Myhr says near the start that how they got bounced off Earth and are now lost, trying to find their way back, is, "a whole other story," one he'll tell when he's, "good and ready." At the beginning of a book this is fine, but I kinda expected it to be told sometime within these pages, and it never was.
Other than those two, there are no real complaints with the book. But nothing really stands out for it, either. It's a good, readable book, with a good story, but nothing more.
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