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The Splendid and Extraordinary Life of Beautimus Potamus

By: Peggy A. Wheeler
Narrated by: Kelley Hazen
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Summary

The mystical green planet of Rendaz is home to devout goddess worshiper and university professor, middle-aged Beautimus Potamus - who also happens to be a hippo plagued by hot flashes and poor self-esteem. Beautimus forms an alliance with Samuel S. Goodwings, a younger womanizing, atheist praying mantis. When these two are together, life morphs from the mundane into the fantastic. Our unlikely duo solve mysteries, bring a murderer to justice, and even help end a war, while experiencing their own trials, triumphs, and tragedies. Often with humor, their situations and adventures parody Earth culture.

During their exploits, the two interact with a host of characters, including a pair of New Age flamingos, an ADHD afflicted trout, an orangutan detective, and a 310-year-old blue crane High Priestess. All of these creatures are more "human" in surprising ways than the citizens of the blue planet, Earth, we discover was once a Rendazian Colony.

Beautimus Potamus' tongue-in-cheek story is a magical fable-stew made with the ingredients of satire, drama, social commentary, and comedy, with jests, puns and wordplay sprinkled throughout. For good measure, a generous pinch of romantic flavoring is thrown into the pot.

©2017 Peggy A. Wheeler (P)2017 Peggy A. Wheeler Genre Fiction Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction Comedy Solar System Witty
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I found this quite weird to start with but the animal characters were quite charming and that made me want to continue. It took a while for the story to really get started but then it was almost like a series, with Beautimus Potamus having many adventures, which were eventually all tied in together.
The inhabitants of Rendaz are just like us in many ways, except that they are animals. They are actually where our animals originally descend from, ours have just forgotten how to talk. Rendazians love Earth culture, watching our TV shows and naming their children after Earth celebrities.
Everyone sounds so sweet and lovely it could be almost be a children's book. But is does get surprisingly violent with quite a lot of swearing a bit later in the book.
The narration is good with many different sounding voices so you can always tell which character is speaking.

The inhabitants of Rendaz are like us in many ways

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