The Order of Odd-Fish

‘“I thought the afterlife would be drier than this,” said Jo.

“Or better lit,” said Sefino.

“We're not dead!” insisted Aunt Lily.

No one spoke for a while. Jo fidgeted uncomfortably in the wet darkness. Her body was coming back, and it ached all over.

“Pretty dull afterlife,” said Sefino. “I must have been more of a sinner than I thought.”

“I expect it picks up later,” said Colonel Korsakov.'



What do you think of this little snippet of The Order of Odd-Fish? Love it? This book is for you, then. Somehow, and I really can't imagine how, unless he has been working on this book his entire life, somehow author James Kennedy has written an entire four hundred page so-called children's book with this kind of repartee on every page. Absolutely delightful. With Alice in Wonderland-ish zany plot twists. And a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe-ish philosophical soul.

I feel like I just spent a week at some kind of wacky interplanetary Disneyworld.

Thank you to the author for this delightful review copy.