Fairy Tale Spotlight: The Mouse that Saved the West [Book Review]

[I spoil the main plot of this book.]

"The Mouse that Saved the West" is a novel written by Leonard Wibberley. It is the forth book in the Grand Fenwick book series. It was published in 1981.

I just wanna say that I have really been enjoying this series. I love the whole concept of it. It's all very cute. I am going to read the rest of it right away.

This one has to do with the energy crisis which is not something I remember too well. I was just being born when this book came out. From what I understand, OPEC was being stingy with its oil prices, and it was making everyone sweat bullets because they didn't wanna pay the asking price. It's a bit confusing to me, since all you have to do is just drill your own damn oil, but it was what it was, I guess.

As usual in the series, Grand Fenwick, the smallest fictional country in the world, gets involved in a scheme to solve the world's problems. The idea they come up with is to fake Grand Fenwick as a producer of oil and then sell the barrels at cost. Hilariously though they end up striking oil for real.

I don't want to say more than that, but I do want to say that the character Mountjoy is someone who I generally see as very intelligent and reasonable, but I don't think he was as on the mark in this one. I think he bit off more than he could chew and made some bad decisions. Even so, he was still very cool. He is probably my favorite character in the series.

I do recommend this one. I didn't like it as much as the other ones, but it was good enough for a single read.

This blog was written on December 30, 2024.

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