Captain BlueBore

33. 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear

It felt like it took about 13 1/2 lives to get through this book.  I NEVER stop reading a book in the middle, but I kept asking myself why I wasn't when I was reading this.  And in retrospect it probably would have been a good idea.

Here is the thing though, it is wildly imaginative and the illustrations are fun, but it doesn't go anywhere and I just don't have time for that anymore.  Clearly the author spends a lot of time imagining places and things and he has collected every one of them here.  The bear goes to a place and sees things, then goes to another place and sees more things, and it repeats like that for 703 pages.  703 PAGES!!!  The fact of the matter is that nothing really happens and this is marketed as a YA book but I don't know many kids who wouldn't lose interest after the first 100 pages.