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A review by lillanaa
Sal and Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez
5.0
I don't know why I kept passing this one up, it's probably one of my new favourites in the collection! Leaning more science fiction than fantasy, harkening on the idea of an infinite reality, this book is... Genuinely just fun. There's no world ending event, the "threats" here are surface level, and it just works.
This leaves room for the characters to just play in the space, and man are there a lot of great characters. Sal and Gabi make for extremely interesting protagonists, and although a lot of the other characters have some heavy absurdity to them they all make sense in this kind of a story. Yasmany stuck out to me as a really, really cool character despite a rocky start, and I'm excited because it sounds like he's going to be in the sequel.
I was looking for something fun and chill to read, and this didn't disappoint. I'm glad that there's at least one kids adventure book out there that doesn't feel like the apocalypse is going to start just because.
This leaves room for the characters to just play in the space, and man are there a lot of great characters. Sal and Gabi make for extremely interesting protagonists, and although a lot of the other characters have some heavy absurdity to them they all make sense in this kind of a story. Yasmany stuck out to me as a really, really cool character despite a rocky start, and I'm excited because it sounds like he's going to be in the sequel.
I was looking for something fun and chill to read, and this didn't disappoint. I'm glad that there's at least one kids adventure book out there that doesn't feel like the apocalypse is going to start just because.