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Threadbare - Review

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Book 1: Stuff and Nonsense

Book 2: Sew You Want to be a Hero

Book 3: The Right to Arm Bears

Blurb: (From Book 1) Meet Threadbare. He is twelve inches tall, full of fluff, and really, really bad at being a hero.

Magically animated and discarded by his maker as a failed experiment, he is saved by a little girl. But she's got problems of her own, and he might not be able to help her.

Fortunately for the little golem, he's quick to find allies, learn skills, gain levels, and survive horrible predicaments. Which is good, because his creator has a whole lot of enemies...

Review: Absolutely great idea for a series. Having an animated teddy-bear as the main character and fully embracing it with things like pun-filled titles makes a fun series. The stories' not all fun, sunshine, and puns however, and there's definitely some pretty dark scenes and realisations. The typical adventure plot is there at the base of the book, and I think the 3 books in the series are spaced apart in such a way that it adds to the adventure vibe. So I think this series suffers a bit from a mini 'Red Sister' syndrome. This syndrome is pulled from nowhere, and will hence refer to series with a super promising first novel and less stellar followups.

So I really enjoyed the first book in this series, and watching Threadbare get familiar with the world and go through his earlier adventures were great. Progression was handled well, but for some reason I found myself less excited about the story line. I've got no hard clue for why this is as it's been a fair while since I read this series, but there was a kind of disappointment, especially with the third book and the ending. This series still gets a thumbs up, and I think it's a example of the potential self-published works have.