Rating: 2/5
Are you bored stiff? Do you always feel like what you are doing is boring, and when you get to do what you wished to be able to do, that’s boring too? When you’re outside, do you want to be inside? And when you’re inside, don’t you want to be outside? If so, Milo’s the friend for you.
But one day, after getting home from school and trudging miserably upstairs, Milo finds a little package and builds the contents: a little map, car, and tollbooth. Testing it to see if it works, the bored little boy finds that it does, perfectly; and he is confronted with a confusing, complicated world that never fails to entertain.
Milo is confronted with an amazing land full of different capitals, states, cities and towns—but he is soon asked to go on a mission to find the two banished princesses, Sweet Rhyme and Pure Reason, to make the world well again. On his journey, Milo’s approach to words, phrases and the way life is lived changes entirely as he takes on a different side to everything.
This book dragged on a bit, going into detail about the things that didn’t need it, and making the things that did need it rather vague. It was probably a bit young for me, too, a little childish and silly; and overall I didn’t really like it at all.