Tales of Pell Kill the Farm Boy: The Tales of Pell, Book 1, (Paperback)

from unsquare

Kill the Farm Boy is a silly book that sends up and undermines some well-worn clichés of the fantasy genre's hero narrative. It asks questions like “What does it mean to be the Chosen One?” and “Who deserves to be a protagonist?” and then unloads goat poop on them. This succeeds with varying resu...

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This looks like the usual fantasy quest book but it quickly shows that it enjoys setting all those tropes on its head. A fairy comes and tells a farm boy he is the chosen one but he doesn't believe her until she enchants his goat to talk. Worstly is now off and running to find his destiny and mee...

from ronincats

I wanted to like this more than I did. I loved the premise--it was time to make fun of white male power fantasies, the formula for which almost always involves some kid in a rural area rising to power in the empire after he loses his parents, usually because somebody comes along and tells hem not...

from ritaer

A parody of The Chosen One genre. But a bit overdone, so I didn't finish it. A would be dark lord who is a chinless dweeb, a chosen one who is a clueless farm boy, bikini armored warrior woman who wants to settle down and raise roses. And a talking goat. A little too much.

from setnahkt

Disappointing. A fantasy novel supposedly a send up of “white male power fantasies” – with a blurb on the back cover in case we don't get the point - it comes across as if written by the just barely pubescent male nerds it's supposedly trying to mock. Lots of effluvia jokes and sophomoric puns. T...