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“YOU CAN KILL A BOOK QUICKER BY YOUR SILENCE THAN BY A BAD REVIEW.”
― E.A. BUCCHIANERI

REVIEWING TODAY: THE TRANSLUCENT BOY AND THE CAT WHO RAN OUT OF TIME BY TOM HOFFMAN

“Why does it always feel like Wikerus knows exactly what’s happening, but won’t tell us?”

“Because he knows exactly what’s happening, and won’t tell us.”

“I’m going to vaporize you, Odo Whitley.”

There is more information in this little exchange taken from Tom Hoffman’s newest addition to amazement, The Translucent Boy (and the cat who ran out of time) than one might suspect, but you need to read Mr. Hoffman’s series of books for young readers in order to appreciate all the humor and joy. This is the remarkable follow-up to The Translucent Boy (and the girl who saw him) which marked the beginning of so many world-hopping, time-traveling, alien-encountering, ghostly-visiting, mind-boggling adventures of Odo Whitley, a mostly see-through boy, and his best friend Sephie Crumb, a …. No. I don’t think I’ll tell you.

In this particular adventure of The Translucent Boy (and the cat who ran out of time), Tom Hoffman tells about a cat who ran out of time. Sorry. But he does. And in the world according to Mr. Hoffman, such an event is simply and always the Universe’s way of getting his heroes’ attention in order to accomplish mighty and important tasks. The boy is ultra-wary, but courageous. The girl is super-smart, and brave. Together, they are funny as hell. (Such language does not appear in Hoffman’s books. Your kids are safe.) And if you think I’m being evasive about the plot, I am. One wants not to give away the origin of the cat’s new name, why young Silas is seeing ghosts, how Odo and Sephie do all the supernatural (err…scientific) things they do, and most especially not why Wikerus always knows what’s happening but won’t tell. Anyway, I’m out of time.