The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents - Terry Pratchett

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Rating:

4.5/5          95 customer reviews

Review:

Summary

Imagine a million clever rats.
Rats that don't run.Rats that fight...

Maurice, a streetwise tomcat, has the perfect money-making scam. He's found a stupid-looking kid who plays a pipe, and he has his very own plague of rats -- rats who are strangely educated, so Maurice can no longer think of them as 'lunch'. And everyone knows the stories about rats and pipers...
But when they reach the stricken town of Bad Blintz, the little con suddenly goes down the drain. For someone there is playing a different tune. A dark, shadowy tune. Something very, very bad is waiting in the cellars.
The educated rats must learn a new word.
EVIL.
It's not a game any more. It's a rat-eat-rat world down there. And that might only be the start...

Good Points

• Great ideas for names and characters for the story.
• Carnegie Medal award.
• Long and very funny read.

Bad Points

• Quite confusing at times.

Overall

Amazing ideas and characters!  Terry Pratchett described and personalized the characters really well.  When something happens to one of the characters (trying not to give anything away) I could feel the suspense and sadness from the other characters.  I recommend this to everyone above 11 or 12. 

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