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staceylynn42 's review for:
The Penguin Who Knew Too Much
by Donna Andrews
Not one of my favorites - mostly because it's heavy on the "Meg needs to say NO" For such an otherwise strong character she just folds into a heap when her family wants her to do something. Her dad's shoulders slump and she just goes along with whatever nonsense he is spouting. It's stupid and it gets old.
A zookeeper hits a cash flow problem & his solution is farm the animals out to whoever will take them for a few days (disbelief #1). After a few days, with no word from the zoo guy these people start bringing the animals to Meg's because her dad said that would be fine, with out asking Meg (disbelief #2). He discovers a body while digging a hole for a pond in Meg's basement for some penguins he failed to ask if he could keep there (disbelief #3). All sort of wild animals show up while the police do their thing, including a medical examiner who has such strong fears of small, dark & enclosed places he has to be dragged into the basement to pronounce the victim dead and then he just sort of takes up residence in a chair in Meg's backyard and stay there for the rest of the book (disbelief #4). A famous TV zoologist shows up because the zookeeper had contacted him about zoo and he has an ulterior motive for his presence (disbelief #5). Meg tries to get her dad to tell her just how many & what types of animals were at the zoo so she can prepare for what might be coming & Dad goes all vague & instead of pushing it and insisting she lets it go (disbelief #6. STRONG DISBELIEF)
The usual group is there & the usual humor but this one strayed too far into slapstick territory with the wolves & hyenas & llamas & tuk tuks etc. It was stupid.
A zookeeper hits a cash flow problem & his solution is farm the animals out to whoever will take them for a few days (disbelief #1). After a few days, with no word from the zoo guy these people start bringing the animals to Meg's because her dad said that would be fine, with out asking Meg (disbelief #2). He discovers a body while digging a hole for a pond in Meg's basement for some penguins he failed to ask if he could keep there (disbelief #3). All sort of wild animals show up while the police do their thing, including a medical examiner who has such strong fears of small, dark & enclosed places he has to be dragged into the basement to pronounce the victim dead and then he just sort of takes up residence in a chair in Meg's backyard and stay there for the rest of the book (disbelief #4). A famous TV zoologist shows up because the zookeeper had contacted him about zoo and he has an ulterior motive for his presence (disbelief #5). Meg tries to get her dad to tell her just how many & what types of animals were at the zoo so she can prepare for what might be coming & Dad goes all vague & instead of pushing it and insisting she lets it go (disbelief #6. STRONG DISBELIEF)
The usual group is there & the usual humor but this one strayed too far into slapstick territory with the wolves & hyenas & llamas & tuk tuks etc. It was stupid.