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A dinosaur detective in the land of unwanted ideas battles trauma, anxiety, and the first serial killer of imaginary friends. Most ideas fade away when we're done with them. Some we love enough to become Real. But what about the ones we love, and walk away from? Tippy the triceratops was once a little girl's imaginary friend, a dinosaur detective who could help her make sense of the world. But when her father died, Tippy fell into the Stillreal, the underbelly of the Imagination, where discarded ideas go when they're too Real to disappear. Now, he passes time doing detective work for other unwanted ideas - until Tippy runs into The Man in the Coat, a nightmare monster who can do the impossible: kill an idea permanently. Now Tippy must overcome his own trauma and solve the case, before there's nothing left but imaginary corpses. File Unders: Fantasy [ Fuzzy Fiends | Death to Imagination | Hardboiled but Sweet | Not Barney ]… (more)
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The premise of this one is utterly wacky and I utterly adored it. A very noir-ish mystery with a yellow stuffed triceratops who likes to drown his sorrows in root beer is exactly my kind of book. The world-building is creative, the characters are smart and interesting takes on various narrative tropes, and the central mystery is really well done. While there are a few writing style wobbles early on in the book (symptoms of it being a first novel), overall it's a solid read and one I'd recommend if the premise intrigues you.
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