J. Scott Vanlester

Public domain Pooh!

An adaptation of A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh Chapter Two: "In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets Into a Tight Place" has Pooh, a fallen angel with god-like powers, getting stuck in the Un-Rabbit's magic portal after feasting on Woozle meat. As she waits for Christopher Robin, Pooh has a biblical flashback to a time when giants threatened the world and a descendant of hers named Marwe tried to bring peace. But -- oh, bother -- things go awry, and a flood and a sea serpent lead to a kaiju battle.

This series is very dumb, but I admire J. Scott Vanlester's gumption and persistence in getting two of these books produced and aiming for a third.

(My Pooh Project: I love Winnie the Pooh, and so does my wife. Having a daughter gave us a chance to indoctrinate her into the cult by buying and reading her every Pooh book we came across. How many is that? I’m going to count them this year by reading and reviewing one every day and seeing which month I finally run out. Track my progress here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/23954351-rod-brown?ref=nav_mybooks&she... )… (plus d'informations)

Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin's names are pasted over a bad and boring gothic fantasy about a fallen angel in bear form protecting her bloodline for the rest of eternity. There's a flashback within a flashback as "Pooh" tells a story about a recent minor skirmish with demon bees and seques into an overwrought Biblical origin story notable only for having ze/zir pronouns which I rarely see in print and need more practice using.

It's one-star bad, but I'm giving a bonus star for at least trying something different with the new public domain Winnie the Pooh.

(My Pooh Project: I love Winnie the Pooh, and so does my wife. Having a daughter gave us a chance to indoctrinate her into the cult by buying and reading her every Pooh book we came across. How many is that? I’m going to count them this year by reading and reviewing one every day and seeing which month I finally run out. Track my progress here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/23954351-rod-brown?ref=nav_mybooks&she... )… (plus d'informations)