Blog Tour: THE NOT SO TRUE ADVENTURES OF BRANDON, JOSH, AND ADAM by Barry Fellinger
The Not so True Adventures of Brandon,Josh, and Adam
by Barry Fellinger
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GENRE: Children's Fiction
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BLURB:
Eleven-year-old cousins Brandon and Josh return homesafely at the end of their Almost True Adventure, only to discover that theircousin Adam has been captured by the very same aliens from the IntergalacticCouncil on Obedience to Parents they just escaped from!
Now the boys must figure out how to get back intospace, rescue Adam, and return home safely again!
It's a Not So True Adventure full of action,surprises, old friends, new enemies, frenemies, and what's that about doublestroubles?
A hilarious and once-in-a-while serious story ofpast, present, and future antics, based on some of the three cousins' escapadesin real life!
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Excerpt One:
I Wish I WouldHave Just Eaten My Dinner OR ADAM MEETS THE COUNCIL
Twelve-year-oldAdam was mad. He was very mad. He was in a cage with bars and not happy aboutit at all. With every bit of his 120-pound might and five feet two height, hegripped the bars and tried twisting them loose until his hands hurt. No use.They would not budge.
Adam was not sure how he ended up in the cage.Last thing he remembered, he had been horribly angry at his mother, stompingaway from the supper table and up the stairs towards his room. Next thing heknew, he woke up in this dark place. Only when his eyes became accustomed tothe darkness could he tell he was in some kind of jail. Still, he refused tobelieve it.
At first, hethought he was dreaming. He tried to wake up by pinching the skin on his arm.That hurt! Next, he shook his head back and forth, his curly brown hair wavingaround until it fell over his eyes, and he felt dizzy. Nope, that didn’t workeither because he was already very much awake. Then he thought his two olderbrothers might be playing a trick on him. He yelled as loudly as possible,“Danny! Ken! Is this one of your dumb jokes? It’s not funny!”
No one came.
Next, he triedwalking away but found he ran right into the bars and bumped his forehead.Ouch! He rattled the bars again. Nothing changed. This was not a nightmare. Itwas not a trick. It really was a cage. Adam was getting nervous and his handsfelt clammy. He could feel the sweat on his forehead. He sat down and tried tothink. His mind started racing with all kinds of crazy thoughts. Was this someweird punishment for leaving the dinner table? Where was he anyway? Was hebeing pranked? Maybe he was on one of those TV shows where a friend or familymember plays a prank that is filmed on an unsuspecting victim. He wouldn’t putthat past his brothers or his cousins, Brandon and Josh. He concluded he had toslow down and think things out and not jump to conclusions about what hadhappened to him.
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Review: Waking up in a cage was verystrange to Adam. How did he get there? Was this a dream? Apparently, he was tomeet before the council. What council? What was going on here?
The Intergalactic Council onObedience to Parents (ICOP) was in session.
The narrative was nice n’ easy,but it was rather slow as it was often a big too descriptive. At first, wedon’t even know what these creatures of ICOP were talking about. A lot of thetrivial nonsense took up more time than it should’ve. Was Adam a pup? Was hedog food or what? I mean, we still don’t know how Adam even got there.
Things get a little clear inchapter 2 when the cousins back on Earth reveal that Adam was taken by aliensto their planet—the very same planet that they themselves escaped from. Okay,but still, that leaves a lot more questions unanswered. At times, the prose wasa little odd. For instance:
“There’s the going-up-the-stairsboys; let’s call them Brandon #1 and Josh #1. And there’s thecoming-down-the-stairs boys, Brandon #2 and Josh #2. The going-up-the-stairspair acted quickly. Josh #1 put his hand over Brandon #2’s mouth, and Brandon#1 did the same to Josh #2, motioning for them to come up to Brandon’s room.”
When did the boys split? Why werethey four of them?
The whole thing was long and slow.The black-and-white illustrations were a good distraction and a refreshingchange of pace.
The story was certainly zany withwild scenarios and antics. It was quite imaginative, I’ll give it that. But itjust wasn’t that easy to follow. It would’ve been nice to have an explanationto all this. It just felt that we got dropped somewhere in the middle of thestory without any background info.
A fairly nice read. Good forsci-fi kids that like crazy, out-of-this-world stories.
Rating:3 stars
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Barry M. Fellinger resides in St. Thomas, Ontario, with his wifeBeth, and currently works as a director in health care and also teachesleadership courses and seminars.
He loves spending time with his adult children, grandchildren,extended family, and friends.
He enjoys reading, writing, watching superhero television showsand movies, collecting comics, attending the occasional Comicon and, forinspiration, relaxing in Sanctuary II, his comic book/man room.
He has a few more books in the works which he hopes to completebefore or during retirement.
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