 Just like my previous review, this is another astonishing, lucky find that completely blew me away. I'll tell you about it. I picked this up by chance when I was visiting a little specialty bookstore in Seattle called Ada's Technical Books and Cafe. It was sitting there right on top of the shelf on display, and the cover certainly caught my eye all by itself. I took a quick glance through it. It is prose with the occasional bit of comics. And I said, okay, I'll give this a try. This really looks intriguing, and boy was I blown away. Chapter one blew me away, and then chapter two blew me away again. Chapters three and four blew me away yet again. It's hard to describe the plot of this book without spoiling it. In fact, those of you who like my recommendations and agree with my recommendations, I would say go get this book without reading anything about it. Don't go on Goodreads and read a synopsis of it, because they'll tell you everything, and you don't want that. The thing about this book is the surprises. When I did my try a chapter book tag last month, I read the first two paragraphs of this book, and you can read them again yourself here. Just this first page here is an excellent example of the writing. It was this first page that hooked me. It is so unusual for me to be surprised by any book, and for me to be surprised again and again and again by a book just blows my mind. It starts out these two fifth graders, these two friends in school. Just to kill time, they create this comic book character called Princess X that's based on themselves, and the author includes the girl's drawings. This is great stuff. All the way up to halfway through this book, I never knew what was going to happen from the beginning of one chapter to the next. I have to admit that by the middle of the book, it had settled down to a straightforward plot, and after that it became predictable. In fact, the last two or three chapters were kind of downright boring, but my God, the setup to this book was like nothing else I've ever seen before. I keep repeating the fact that it surprised me. Those of you who have been following my reviews for some time, you know how much I like being surprised, so I love this book, and I recommend it like crazy. Please remember to press that like button, it helps my videos get seen, and then subscribe so you can come back next time. I do science fiction book, TV, and movie reviews all the time, and please consider becoming a patron. There's a link in the description below.