Alex vs Axel: The Impossible Quests

The newest book by Sam Copeland and this time cosmic twins, an Impossible Quests, new friendships, and much more! 🥰 I loved how this one started and how the portal appeared! I hadn’t expected a portal to just appear and almost suck everything up. The blurb says the boys swapped so I expected maybe mo......more

Very healing for my inner child. Light hearted, adventurous, but most of all a lot fun. The best thing about this book was its clever humour. A high 3 stars!......more

This book was so fun! I had no problems getting hooked and the whole premise of the story was great. Enough to capture the minds of younger audiences and amuse the older ones (ie Me!). I love a life swap trope, especially when one reedy Alex on Earth gets swapped for one heroic Axel from an alternat......more

A fun but surprisingly devastating middle grade novel following two boys from different worlds who swap places and have to learn to grow as a result. This book actually got me! I was expecting mostly the kind of humour which might not be my speed, and there was a fair amount of that, but at the crux......more

Sam Copeland’s humorous fantasy novel for readers aged 9+ (the first in a series) has some genuine laugh-out-loud moments and gleefully subverts a number of the fantasy cliches. Although I think Alex has more depth than Axel and some of the resolutions to plot difficulties were too pat, there are al......more