Frankie Best Hates Quests

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Answering all the important questions you never knew you had, like where fairytale characters go to the toilet, this book offers plenty of laugh-out-loud moments.

Smiths world building was amazingly magical, and throughout every chapter I felt transported to Pararellia. As the most iconic and well-known children’s book brand in the UK today, we are always on the lookout for innovative ways to tell the world’s favourite stories and for brilliant new debut talent and brands that connect with today’s young readers, from newborn up to twelve years old. Joel – Frankie’s annoying nerd brother who spends all his time playing computer games like Elf-Quest and just generally being really super annoying. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. She provides a running commentary in the form of snide comments and scornful remarks that remind readers just how silly all this fantasy stuff is.

The chapters are short, there are diary entries, view points change, overall it is a light hearted adventure read and if you need to drop out of our world for a little while this is a fab one to enter. Chris Smith has wanted to be an author ever since he was eight and won a competition by writing story about a baby dinosaur who loved biscuits. Frankie did have big plans to watch YouTube and eat pot noodles that weekend but it looks like she’ll just have to go on an epic mega-dangerous quest instead .

A fun and funny adventure- with a narrator that frequently breaks the fourth wall - that deconstructs and gently mocks a lot of the classic quest fantasy tropes. Forget what you think you know about fairytales as ‘Frankie Best hates Quests’ turns that on its head.He's a lovely boy and tried hard for his granny and it was a successful start, completed by his mum, my daughter. When Grandad is kidnapped by a host of gnoblins (no that is not spelt incorrectly) it falls to Frankie and Joel to save the day. Chris Smith is the author of the New York Times bestseller "The Daily Show (the Book)" and "Till The End" (with C. I found myself smiling all the way through the book and I absolutely adored the subtle Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit nods throughout, specially the “second breakfast “.

At points I did feel like the author was trying a bit to hard to relate to a younger audience which is why it got a 4 star rating from me but overall this was fantastic. That's where he met Greg James, and in between messing about on the airwaves the pair created the bestselling Kid Normal series.The bestselling author of Kid Normal delivers a hilarious, action-packed adventure in which Frankie must change her plans of watching YouTube and eating pot noodles for a rescue mission to save her kidnapped Grandad from a weird magical world.