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Worst Knights Ever

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Welcome to an absolute roller coaster of hilarity - Worst Knights Ever had me in tears of laughter.

"It's autumn 2001, and a fire-breathing dragon is destroying London. With most of her military overseas, the Queen decides to do what previous Queens would've done and call in her Knights! The only problem is that the Queen has only knighted celebrities."

This was a fun, fast paced read. Laughs right from the beginning - obnoxious teenagers encountering a dragon, panic spreading across the nation, poking fun at the monarchy, through all the celebrity appearances (it's a star studded cast!), all wrapped in standard crude British humour (which as a Canadian, I particularly enjoy).

Would absolutely recommend to readers who would not shy away from more explicit jokes and baudier humour.

Thank you to NetGalley and PsycoToxin Press for providing me with an advance copy of this book to review!

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When London is attacked by a dragon, the Queen calls her Knights to save the city. Sir Sean Connery assembles three other volunteering knights, Anthony Hopkins, Elton John and Micheal Caine to fight the menace and Spielberg films it all in this hilarious specimen of British wit.

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This book is bloody ridiculous but in the best way possible. It's not often that a novel causes me to laugh out loud, but Worst Knights Ever did … many, many times. I guess the best way I can think of to describe it is that it's kind of like if you took a Monty Python sketch and mixed it with a Christoper Moore novel and threw in a whole bunch of British celebrities?

And speaking of British celebrities, this novel has a very star-studded “cast.” There are the celebrity knights (Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Caine, and Elton John), of course, but lots of other famous Brits also make an appearance: Rowan Atkinson, Eddie Izzard, David Bowie, Richard Branson, Ricky Gervais, the list goes on and on. And if you're Canadian, American, or Australian and hoping for some representation, no worries! This book has you covered too.

The humor is crude – Elton John in particular is a master of the double entendre – and definitely not for the prudish. Hamster lovers should absolutely, under no circumstances, read this book. But if you're okay with phrases like “a rapist version of Anakin Skywalker” and blowjob jokes about the Queen (not a fabulous mental image, but, hey, at least it wasn't Charles, amirite?), you'll probably love this. As well you should. It's hilarious.

My one tiniest of complaints is that this book reads a lot like a screenplay … which makes sense, I suppose, since that's what it was originally intended to be. I also thought that the first half was a little funnier than the rest, but I still found myself chuckling to the very end. These issues are very minor quibbles, however, and I'm so hoping that someone makes a movie out of this one – I'd be there to watch it on opening night, for sure.

Many thanks to NetGalley and PsychoToxin Press for providing me with an advance copy of this book to review!

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I would like to start by thanking the authors for giving me the best laughs I have had in a long time! This is a book that you need to read as I feel no review could do it justice, it’s like Viz only so much better

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