Ronan Boyle and the Swamp of Certain Death (Ronan Boyle Series #2)

by Thomas Lennon Narrated by Thomas Lennon

Overview

You are cordially invited to the greatest show this side of Tir Na Nog:
Equasos Live!

The Magnificent Equasos is back and better than ever! still here! Join him for an evening of jokes, leprechaun
trampling, and of course singing the classics that you know and love, including:

¿ “Mister, Don't You Poop on My Haypile, Please”
¿ “(Everybody) Get Funky”
¿ “Let's All Visit Equasos's Merchandise Table”
¿ “(Everybody) Get Funky (Reprise)”
¿ “Quit Hornin' in While I Eat this Leprechaun's Face”

And just wait 'til you see the new beefie he got to play the leprechaun. He's such a hoot! Says his name is Ronan Boyle
and he's on a mission to save his captain and clear his parents' names, which is ridiculous because once you see him
you'll know he couldn't save his way out of a wet paper bag or clear the marker from a dry-erase board. Sweet kid,
though. Lots of allergies. And he can scream and play dead better than any other gosh-darn wee person I've ever seen.

Editorial Reviews

Booklist

". . .Enchanting descriptions of Tir Na Nog and its inhabitants will easily have readers suspending their disbelief and watching for book three."

New York Times bestselling author of the Spy Schoo Stuart Gibbs

The Ronan Boyle books are ridiculously funny. Like, Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett funny. I was laughing hysterically while reading them. My kids were laughing hysterically. My dog might have even been laughing hysterically while listening to us read it. (At least at the parts that involved dogs, of which there are a good number.). And in addition to being funny, the books are chock-full of adventure and excitement, with stereotype-defying werewolf, leprechauns and unicorns thrown in. They’re a tremendous joy to read from the first page to the last. Especially the part with the snakes.

Booklist

". . .Enchanting descriptions of Tir Na Nog and its inhabitants will easily have readers suspending their disbelief and watching for book three."

Kirkus Reviews

2019-12-08
Following Ronan Boyle and the Bridge of Riddles (2019), the further zany adventures of an anxiety-prone 15-year-old member of the Garda Special Unit of Tir Na Nog, i.e., Irish faerie fighter.

Despite his incompetence, anxiety, and absolute lack of courage, young Ronan Boyle is off again to the enchanted side of Ireland, to capture Lord Desmond Dooley, the man who framed Boyle's parents for theft of an ancient mummy, the Bog Man, and to rescue his captain, who fell into Dooley's nefarious hands. Accompanied by the formidable Log MacDougall, a human raised by leprechauns, and an Irish wolfhound named Rí, he braves a wild variety of horrors, including a unicorn spa town, where he appears in a musical revue, and the titular Swamp of Certain Death. As in the first volume, the tale is snort-out-loud funny on the sentence level, but the plot, such as there is one, approximates the inside of Ronan's noggin: "a hamster on a Mobius strip, running frantic laps to nowhere." It's highly enjoyable to a point, and then the utter lack of cause and effect begins to wear readers down. One could skip any or all of 90% of the scenes in this book and never notice. As far as race goes, the unicorns come in all colors; Ronan is depicted as white on the cover.

Equal parts funny and fatiguing. (Fantasy. 8-14)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940172572302
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	03/17/2020
Series:	Ronan Boyle Series , #2
Edition description:	Unabridged
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

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