Comet’s experiences are imbued with melancholy but also a bright, sustained comedy he has a talent for locating bizarre and outsized players to welcome onto the stage of his life. Here, as a community of strange peers gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from his past, the events of his life and the details of his character are revealed.īehind Bob Comet’s straight man facade is the story of an unhappy child’s runaway adventure during the last days of the Second World War, of true love won and stolen away, of the purpose and pride found in the librarian’s vocation, and the pleasures of a life lived to the side of the masses. Hoping to fill the void he’s known since retiring, he begins volunteering at the centre. One morning on his daily walk he encounters a confused elderly woman lost in a market and returns her to the senior centre that is her home. Summary: Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books in a mint-coloured house in Portland, Oregon. The fact that book three won’t be out for a while yet pains me, but I understand the work involved, and I will savour the wait. Pan’s sparkly rainbow jumpsuit! Scottie’s freckles!! I could look at these pages for ages without even paying attention to the plot. The comical faces in brawls and shocking moments. The exquisite composition and showcasing of negative space. The way the tones and colours change with the mood of the scene. It is just as bright and colourful and fun as the last book. While the story and what they’re fighting for is important and driving the plot, it is them as people that drives the heart of the story.Īnd the art. Seeing this group of women with different histories, different priorities, and different views come together to become a family and work together was a delight. And newest addition Scottie has to reassess her own views and place in the world. Pan is the most passionate and empathic, wanting to do the best by everyone. The mysteriously cool Kate has her own angle on their shared agenda (and I still have my suspicions about her past). Cass, sill my favourite character, is resistant to change while her wife, Bee, is in desperate need of it. Having agreed to work together, they need to figure out what that looks like-what their goals are and how to achieve them. The focus was heavily on the characters’ relationships and development. This book starts off where the last one ended and I was so ready to get back into the story. It was just as amazing as the first, if not better. I wanted to finish my previous book before starting this one, but every time I thought about this book I made a grabby hands motion and got very excited. Review: I absolutely loved the first book in this series and was itching to buy and read the second. They’ve even rescued a princess… but what if this process has her own ideas? Whatever happened to Pan’s childhood friend Tara? And if they become galactic fugitives, will the pressure of life on the run threaten to tear them apart, just in time for the biggest heist of their lives? Summary: Plucky mechanic Pan has finally escaped her dead-end planet, building a new sort of family with the rebel gladiators, Bee & Cass and the mysterious hacktivist Kate.
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