Meddling Kids

A Novel

De: Edgar Cantero

Narrado por: Kyla Garcia

With raucous humor and brilliantly orchestrated mayhem, Meddling Kids subverts teen detective archetypes like the Hardy Boys, the Famous Five, and Scooby-Doo and delivers an exuberant and wickedly entertaining celebration of horror, love, friendship, and many-tentacled, interdimensional demon spawn.

Summer 1977. The Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in Oregon's Zoinx River Valley) solved their final mystery and unmasked the elusive Sleepy Lake monster - another low-life fortune hunter trying to get his dirty hands on the legendary riches hidden in Deboën Mansion. And he would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those meddling kids.

In 1990, the former detectives have grown up and apart, each haunted by disturbing memories of their final night in the old haunted house. There are too many strange, half-remembered encounters and events that cannot be dismissed or explained away by a guy in a mask. And Andy, the once intrepid tomboy now wanted in two states, is tired of running from her demons. She needs answers. To find them she will need Kerri, the onetime kid genius and budding biologist, now drinking her ghosts away in New York with Tim, an excitable Weimaraner descended from the original canine member of the club. They will also have to get Nate, the horror nerd currently residing in an asylum in Arkham, Massachusetts. Luckily Nate has not lost contact with Peter, the handsome jock turned movie star who was once their team leader...which is remarkable, considering Peter has been dead for years.

The time has come to get the team back together, face their fears, and find out what actually happened all those years ago at Sleepy Lake. It's their only chance to end the nightmares and, perhaps, save the world.

A nostalgic and subversive trip rife with sly nods to H. P. Lovecraft and pop culture, Edgar Cantero's Meddling Kids is a strikingly original and dazzling reminder of the fun and adventure we can discover at the heart of our favorite stories, no matter how old we get.

©2017 Edgar Cantero (P)2017 Random House Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Cantero ( The Supernatural Enhancements) will win readers' hearts with this goofy, smart love letter to childhood adventure and enduring friendship.... The prose is fast and funny, and the quirky, lovable characters are absolutely irresistible." ( Publishers Weekly)

"Cantero's imagination is vivid, and the story, once it gains speed, continues at a breakneck, roller-coaster pace. He plays with form and style, which makes for an enjoyable romp. Fans of modern takes on Lovecraft and those that are nostalgic for the cartoons of their childhood will like this novel, which is also a sure bet for your Stranger Things-themed display." ( Booklist)

"Deliriously wild, funny and imaginative. Cantero is an original voice." (Charles Yu, author of How to Live in a Science Fictional Universe)

great premise and interesting story

I enjoyed the story and characters but the profanity was needless and at times ill-timed.

Meh

Ok story concept but most of the characters were annoying and hard to develop any interest in

love

this is the first audiobook I've ever listened to that I was completely interested from beginning to end. Love love loved it.

Just The Best

This is the best audiobook I have ever listen to. The narrator was brilliant in creating each voice, and keeping up with the flow of the story. The story itself is phenomenal, giving a real look at what would happen if Scooby Doo were darker. Fantastic book from Cantero, and I can’t wait for the next.

Enjoyable if scooby doo was rated R

Thoroughly enjoyable if Scooby Doo was rated R And met lovecraft. Definitely a few slow parts but all in all pretty awesome. Would enjoy more of these stories.

Great and fun adventure

The way the tropes I grew up with as a kid worked into a fun and engaging story. It was fun picking out the nods to Scooby and all the other kid detective stories.

fun read

Narration is excellent. If u like lovecraftian lore, it's worth a read. Not high art, but fun book.

Fun and unexpected twist to a classic arc type.

Great characters, fun story. Loved the hommage's to the great cartoon detectives like, spoilers "the zoinks river". Brilliant use of descriptive language and pros. A fun read from start to finish and twists and turns till the final sentence.
Worth a series I think, guess we'll see...

This had a good plot twist!

I didn’t see that ending coming like that hopefully more books are out or will come out cuz I just finished this one and haven’t checked for more amazing Tim is a good boy till the very end ❤️

Good but coulda been better

I will be honest I usually only write a review if I really loved it and rarely to dump on it. If they went to the trouble to write it I am not gonna dump on them for putting in the effort or warn away others from subjecting themselves to suffering. That said I love Scooby Doo but I did not really love this book. Most recently I have enjoyed the recent series Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated which has been on Netflix off and on. If you haven't seen it I strongly recommend you watch it. Go ahead. I will wait while you watch all two seasons. Ok. Done? Good, yeah I know right, it was awesome! This book tries to be an homage as well as taking the genre into a more mature horror direction and I appreciate it. But often it felt like an undeveloped screenplay that needed more work shopping to iron out some wrinkles. If you get I think you will enjoy parts of it but yeah you won't feel entirely fulfilled. I will go back to those two seasons because they did a better job of incorporating cosmic horror and genre adventure.