Albert is a platypus who escapes from Adelaide zoo, catches a train and gets off in the mid-Australian desert searching for a land where platypuses roam free. Trouble is things don’t go to plan. Straight away he almost dies in the desert, then he accidently becomes a fugitive and gets into all sorts of trouble stemming from that.
At first the book was alright as it seemed to be a little bit like an Australian Wind in the Willows, except a darker version. But by the end it descended into a confusing plot involving lots of gun-fights, lots of animals being killed, lots of arsons, lots of back-and-forth across the desert from place to place, then back to a place they’d been too and lots more bloodshed than previous.
Also the writing style means that the action scenes aren’t as exciting as they could have been in my eyes.
So it was alright to begin with but got worse.
(I got this book through Amazon Vine. It is listed here.)
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