“I confess, a wall of worry rises for even the most confident fool when he realizes that his plot for saving the day lies with three squirrels, a troupe of earnest nitwits, a donkey-headed weaver, a silver-thirsty goblin, a notoriously unreliable narrator, and a hat-shagging monkey.”

This bawdy, farcical, mystery retelling of A Midsummer Night's Dream isn't going to be for everyone — it wasn't really for me — but it's undoubtedly clever and well written. This is the third book in the Fool series, which follows the exploits of Pocket of Dog Snogging, a fool/jester. It's the first I've read of Moore's books, and I admit I was hoping for something a little more Terry Pratchett-ish and a little less, well, dog snogging and hat shagging.

Content notes: crude humor featuring lots of snogging, wanking, shagging, bonking, and an unfortunate amount of slut shaming; death and fantasy violence