This was fun. And spooky! 💜

Life is really just a string of beautiful moments, isn’t it? Reuniting with loved ones after a long time apart, birthdays, concerts of your favorite band, unforgettable nights at the cinema, Christmas… all that good stuff. For me, the release of a new Walter Moers book easily ranks right up there with the best of them.

But on to the book. We already know the gelatine prince Qwert Zuiopü from "The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear" and here we meet him again after he’s fallen through a dimensional hole. He ends up in Ormea and inside the body of the famous knight Prinz Kaltbluth. And then things immediately go spectacularly, world-threateningly wrong, sending him tumbling from one adventure to the next. It’s thrilling, it’s funny, it’s wildly imaginative, and every twist tops the last. And OMG, Snowstorm is my new favorite character! 💜 I snorted with laughter, I yelled “Oh no!!!”, and I closed the book just to press it to my chest out of sheer joy more than once.

Moers may have lost his Orm for a while, but he’s found it again. My heart is full, and I’m genuinely grateful to live in a time where Walter Moers books exist.

… You know that feeling when someone asks you about a topic you adore, and you get so excited you end up babbling incoherent gibberish because you want to say everything at once? That’s me right now.

Anyway.

Qwert is wonderful. ❤️

PS: If you want the full Qwert experience, be sure to read "The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear", "The City of Dreaming Books" and "The Island of a Thousand Lighthouses" first.