A review by librarylandlisa
Otto Von Trapezoid and the Empress of Thieves by Jesse Baruffi

3.0

This is a story about two villains that have similar demands for the UN. They begin to plan to kill one another but when the time comes they find out that hey have a lot more in common and they fall in love. There are a lot of geeky scifi and fantasy references and a lot of goofy humor that made me smile. The mechanical robot t-rex was one of my favorite things and I was sad to see him depart so early. I really wanted to love this book 100%. I really liked the underlying story but there was just too much going on for the length of the book. The acronyms were really cute and funny for the first half of the book but they got a bit old after a while and there were so many that I would suggest maybe a glossary of acronyms for those of us who struggle with it. All in all, I would recommend this for fans of scifi and humor and would love to get a YA audience to review it as well as I think many teens would like this too. I received a free advanced copy of this title from NetGalley for review.