Gertie Milk and the Great Keeper Rescue

Gertie Milk #2

by Simon Van Booy

In award-winning author Simon Van Booy's fantastical sequel to Gertie Milk and the Keeper of Lost Things, Gertie, Kolt, and Robot Rabbit Boy continue their adventures returning missing objects throughout history while trying to find out what happened to the imprisoned Keepers of Lost Things.

Ever since Gertie Milk arrived on Skuldark, the mysterious island home of all lost objects, she's felt like something was missing. According to Kolt, her mentor and fellow Keeper of Lost Things, the island used to be filled with Keepers tasked with returning missing items throughout history. But now the only three left are Gertie, Kolt, and, Robot Rabbit Boy--a bumbling but lovable Series 7 Artificial Intelligence Forever Friend.

So when Gertie learns that the missing Keepers have been imprisoned by the Losers, their unsavory adversaries, she decides to make it her mission to rescue the kidnapped Keepers and return them to Skuldark.

But that proves more difficult than she'd imagined since her missions to return lost items don't seem to be taking them anywhere near the missing Keepers. Plus, it doesn't help that the Losers have an evil master plan much worse than their last one. This time, the entire future of the universe is at stake.

Fueled by delicious cakes, jars of lemon curd, and plenty of Skuldarkian seawater, Gertie, Kolt, and Robot Rabbit Boy must travel through time (and outer space) to save their island home and rescue the Keepers--before the Losers manage to capture them all.

Genres: Fantasy

352 pages, Hardcover

Published November 6, 2018

About the author

Simon Van Booy is the award-winning, bestselling author of more than a dozen books for adults and children, including The Illusion of Separateness and The Presence of Absence. Simon is the editor of three volumes of philosophy and has written for The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, and the BBC. His books have been translated into many languages and optioned for film. Raised in rural North Wales, he currently lives in New York where he is also a book editor and a volunteer E.M.T. crew chief.

Reviews

[Suzi · Rating 1 out of 5]

Disappointing … I’m a big fan of the original Girtie Milk adventure, but the sequel lacked the ingenuity that was so impressive in Girtie Milk & the Keeper of Lost Things. The story rambled, the humor was juvenile for a young adult book, and the historical figures introduced were uninspiring. I still enthusiastically recommend the first book of the series, but this one didn’t appeal to me at all. I’m not sure how it earned such a high rating, since there is only one other Goodreads review and it is also unfavorable. On a more positive note, if you haven’t read Van Booy’s adult book, ‘The Illusion of Separateness,’ it is amazing and one of my favorites!

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute book, kinda silly in parts but not in a stupid, annoying way. A plus is that it uses some history in its narrative. There’s a whole page and a half that explains Newton’s Laws of motion in relationship to their movement in a rocket.

[Doni · Rating 1 out of 5]

Even though I read and enjoyed the first book in this series, this book does such a poor job of standing alone that it is difficult to sink into it.

[Tanner · Rating 2 out of 5]

It’s…just ok. A little juvenile, but I didn’t completely torture myself reading it.