It's a story of dreams told straight from the author's head on a perfect day walking along the local beach. I’m sure I missed nearly all, but the Star Wars one had me cackling, then reading it to my family.This is the perfect book to read this summer. There are also references to pop culture scattered in too. It’s the voice of the narrator – a timid but loyal and very funny – that makes this book so good. There are points that are overtly funny, and others that it’s the tone that made me laugh – imagining a wry commentator giving a little look the audience. It’s very tongue in cheek funny, commenting on the world. It makes it still feel part of the world as a whole, but a town that doesn’t need the wider world as it has all the adventure and oddities it needs. It does mainly stay centred on the town, not feeling to need to expand to a country, just the sea and rocks beyond. There’s a second map that pops up, showing the bay and how the town fits into it. This book expands that world, taking the book deeper into the sea and the mythology around it. The raging power of the storm above them. The fish and chips shop on the shaking pier. The book dispensary – a book shop that gives you the books you need, not the ones you want. Everything is a little off kilter, but the world is so carefully designed, from the map to the locations. I love the world of Eerie-on-Sea,the feeling of being not quite in an English sea side town. It was so much fun staying in this world a little longer, with the sea-creature monsters and fast-paced adventure set on the sea in the middle of an atmospheric storm. I dived right into GARGANTIS after re-reading MALAMANDER (which I loved more the second time around). In a town full of suspicious, secretive characters, it could be anyone! With the help of the daring Violet Parma, ever-reliable Herbie will do his best to figure out what the Gargantis wants and who stole her treasure in the first place. And it just might be in the Lost-and-Foundery at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, in the care of one Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder. It seems the Gargantis is looking for something: a treasure stolen from her underwater lair. Someone has woken the ancient Gargantis, who sleeps in the watery caves beneath this spooky seaside town where legends have a habit of coming to life. There’s a storm brewing over Eerie-on-Sea, and the fisherfolk say a monster is the cause. Herbert and Violet team up to solve the mystery of the Gargantis - an ancient creature of the deep with the power to create life-threatening storms.
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