Just so much fun. The voice felt a little "Dinosaur comics" to me (not a bad thing). I'm amazed at Mr. North's inventiveness - the variations on the endings and middles, the side quests, mini-games, cryptography, call outs to other books, embedded books, ninjas, zombies (probably), robots, poison, true love…

A tremendous achievement, the reading of which is improved by prior knowledge of the plagiarized abridged version by Mr. Shakespeare, but such knowledge is not necessary.