![]() ![]() ![]() The book is almost beautiful – which is most rich when it concerns a twelve year old hotelier who looks like an 8-bit game mock-up of Crazy Frog in a judge's wig. ![]() ![]() It doesn't go down the whole fancy font and LARGE PRINT path, as drive past it in a Rolls Royce leaving it for dust. It comes as no major surprise to find it's actually the designer who created the world and the main character, and not his collaboratrix. The look is superlative – engravings (or pictures designed to look as engravings) everywhere you turn, fancy scroll-work and edging, and just a wonderful sense of visual impact. If you still haven't caught up with the series opener, let me tell you that these are some of the most luxurious middle grade books out. And in an effort to rescue the situation, he has found himself swapped by a changeling that is trying to mimic him, a changeling that knows just how much one of the hotel's residents means to the Queen of the Witches… It is kind of falling apart however, and Warren can't really rely on anyone else to solve the problem – but now it's done worse. Yes, that's walking hotel – a huge multi-storey, fading grandeur of a hotel on thin robotic legs, that provides the most varied views from any holiday establishment anywhere. If you haven't already, meet Warren the 13th and the walking hotel he inherited last time. Summary: It's the writing here that makes this series fantasy, but the artwork that makes the books fantastic. ![]()
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