Books: Dark Lord, The Teenage Years

( Unrelatedly, I've noticed an interesting influx of USA readers of my blog. Greetings, strangers! :D )

I actually whacked up a review of this book on Doncaster Book Awards, but I think I should put my general thoughts on this little slice of genius up here, too. Because omalawd. It's hawt as hell. I'll try not to be too repetitive when it comes to showering this thing with praise. BUT HOW DO I DO ANYTHING ELSE?!?! D:

So firstly, I'm gonna congratulate it for being the first book that's had me grinning ear-to-ear throughout the WHOLE. DAMN. THING. I mean heck, it might be because I'm terrifically immature and love this kind of psychotic evil stuff, but how can you not love it? Seriously, if you love video games or evilness, BUY THIS AND READ IT.

OR STEAL IT AND READ IT.

DARK LORDS NEVER PAY FOR STUFF.

IN FACT, WHY NOT KIDNAP THE SHOPKEEPER TOO?!

GO ON.

(Please don't actually steal it or kidnap fellow humans. Though I'm only saying this so you don't go out telling people that I said it's good to do bad things, resulting in a lot of angry dads and shopkeepers coming to beat me up.)

It's a dark lord. That's been.. er.... teenager'd. Now I'll admit, turning into a teenager from general childhood is a bit of a shock, so I can't imagine it happening to someone like a super villain.

That's the basic plot. Dirk Lloyd (apparently all social workers are deaf) wakes up as a teenage boy, and has to adapt to the terrifying concept of human life, whilst also trying to get back home.

I've gotta hand it to him, he does it better than me.

The book's nutty, witty, contains vast amounts of evilness and some really lovable characters. Dirk is the little evil overlord that we all have inside us, and you will always be nodding and agreeing with his confused outlook on our weird-as-hell life.

Stuff in this book, of which there are satisfyingly copious amounts of:

*Evilness

*Laughs

*Flames and burning buildings.

*Evilness

*Crazy Evil Overlord Laughing

*Entertaining overlooks on real life.

*Evilness

*Evilness

*Evilness

*Help, I think I'm broken

*Evilness

*Evilness

*Evilness

*MAKE IT STOOOOOOOP!!!!!!!!

Overall. Please read it. Every crazy person should. Just be warned that negative reviews may have you spiralling into the Dungeons Of Neverending Pain and Torture. And I'm not saying that because I'm being held prisoner by the Dark Lord himself. All of my showering praise is genuine. Yep. It's completely genuine. I don't even know where those dungeons might be.

By the way.

Help.