Book Review – ‘The 13 ½ Lives of Captain Bluebear’ by Walter Moers – 3.5 Stars
I’ve never grown out of that childhood need to hear a story before bedtime. It can be a novel, a histoy, or even just a well rehearsed shaggy-dog tale. ‘Bluebear’, in the similar vein of train-of-thought fiction as Hitchhikers Guide, falls neatly into all three of these categories. Detailing the accounts of a blue bear called Bluebear and his travels through the continent of Zamonia, this is a story without any deeper meaning, told only to conjure images of the hundreds of mythical creatures (like yetis and chimeras, or demons and gnomes) through dozens of far-off locales.
