A. A. "Corbin" Puryear

So many wonderful voices!

Revisado: 02-07-21

The narration was top notch! This guy clearly had a ton of fun coming up with different character voices (I think Petey the pot-smoking parrot might have been my favorite). You hear from Pobo, Jake, and Petey the most, but it was really fun when they got to NYC and started interacting with a bunch of ancillary characters; it really showed off the voice actor's range and I got a big kick out of it. Pobo at a human Halloween party supplied quite a few laugh out loud moments.

The story felt somewhat meandering. I think I forgot halfway through why the animal gang was headed to New York, and it seemed like there was a greater interest in the stories that Pobo and Jake were swapping with each other, rather than the action of what they were doing and where they were going. There's a fair amount of potty humor in the first half of the book and then at one point, Pobo and Jake start talking about being Christian, which reeeeeaally starts to get laid on heavy towards the end. I'm not saying that bodily functions and Gospel can't belong in the same narrative, but I suppose your mileage may vary.

But a lot of care and imagination was put into the hidden worlds of these animals, whether it's the Underground, the Rat Pack, or the danger that comes from living as a sasquatch, and I thought that all was pretty clever. I never thought I'd have a whole new level of empathy for the rats of NYC, but here we are!

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