Time Stops for No Mouse by Michael Hoeye Hermux Tantamoq is the proprietor of a watch shop, so he's not terribly surprised when someone comes in with a watch to be repaired. But he is surprised when the owner of the badly damaged watch tells him that she needs her watch back ASAP, and that she is very fond of it. That night, Hermux sees his customer, Linka Perflinger, in the day's edition of the Weekly squeak. She is an aviatrix, and he looks forward to seeing her the following day. But the next day, Ms. Perflinger does not show up. When a nasty rat(Hermux is a mouse) comes in the next day to demand Ms. Perflinger's watch, Hermux decides to investigate. Something dastardly is afoot.
The rating given to this book by Hermux's pet ladybug is: Not Too Scary. But I was scared. This book is not too scary for anyone who enjoys being scared. Booklist compares this to
Stuart Little and the
Redwall series.
Redwall is probably a good comparison, except that whether
Redwall's characters are bad or good almost entirely on their species; here characters are not so obviously good and bad, until all is revealed at the end of the book.
Tense reading.
