Please Don't Tell My Parents I Blew Up the Moon

Please Don't Tell My Parents, Book 2

By: Richard Roberts

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Supervillains do not merely play hooky.

True, coming back to school after a month spent fighting - and defeating - adult superheroes is a bit of a comedown for the Inscrutable Machine. When offered the chance to skip school in the most dramatic way possible, Penelope Akk can't resist. With the help of a giant spider and mysterious red goo, she builds a spaceship and flies to Jupiter.

Mutant goats. Secret human colonies. A war between three alien races with humanity as the prize. Robot overlords and evil plots.

Penny and her friends find all this and more on Jupiter's moons, but what they don't find are any heroes to save the day. Fortunately, they have an angry 11-year-old and a whole lot of mad science....

©2015 Richard Roberts (P)2016 Tantor

What Happened!?!

What could Richard Roberts have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

What happened to this book? I loved the first one and so couldn't wait to pick up this second book. Instead of continuing with what was started in book one, our villains are thrown into outer space with a completely bran new cast of characters. Sadly, there were so many that I found myself getting confused by who was who and why I should bather investing time in them or not.

I felt that this story did not flow as well. Having to rewind the story several times to make sure I did miss a segment or miss hear another took me out of the story. One of the new main characters was so screechy that I felt like I had to plug my ears when she was on.

Overall, I would not recommend this book to anyone and I am not even sure I will attempt the third book. Maybe in a couple months this book will have faded from my memory, but mostly, I think I will not be continuing. Which is sad, as I really thought that this author had something with the first book.

great story except for one subplot

I loved the story it would have been perfect if riley's arc in the story didn't feel forced.

Just skip it

The first book begs you to continue the story, skip to book three, this is just... don't, not even with an extra credit, or free, the performance is great, just like book one, but the story, just ... no, I get the author trying something new, it just doesn't work, the story looses all what makes it great, the conflict of a young group of teenagers battening between the fun and what's right is lost when you take away all consecuences and replace it with a generic outer space sci fi enviroment, just no, skip it

this is my favorite book series.

the story dosent follow the classic moles but it still entrances the reader.l love it.

another fun book

my kids love this series and I enjoy it myself. if tou or your children enjoy light super powdered adventure try it out.

Loved this book.

I really enjoyed reading this. I’d recommend this to anyone who likes super heroes or sci-fi. It’s funny how these youngsters try to be good people, but keep being blamed for villainy.

It’s a clean read too.

Misleading title

The title is very misleading. But not to worry, the gang does travel through space, all over the solar system, dealing with both trivial issues and epic conflicts.

It was good but not as good as the other two books

If you could sum up Please Don't Tell My Parents I Blew Up the Moon in three words, what would they be?
Creepy, mediocre, inferior.

What does Emily Woo Zeller bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Emily Woo Zeller is a good narrator, almost making up for the story.

Any additional comments?
The scene early on in the Red Panacea Clinic was horrible, and well summarizes the book. It contains cancerous deformed goat horrors that could have easily been left out of the overall series. Why would this be a good direction to take the series in?

Almost great, but...

I loved the first book. I had to give the next one a listen, too. There's a lot to like in this book. There's really only one thing I didn't care for.

Trying to stay as spoiler-free as possible here, but there's one character introduced in this book who is absolutely insufferable. Just a flat-out awful person. No big deal, right? There's nothing wrong with having a character you love to hate, right?

Here's the thing: the listener is supposed to sympathize with this person. The main character can't stop gushing about what an amazing person this is, even as that person continuously does awful, unjustifiable things to her and her friends. I began dreading scenes with this character, but they just kept coming, and the character kept getting more loathsome.

Other than that character, it's a good story. I just wish that story stopped getting dragged down by a character who's less pleasant than nails on a chalkboard (while the protagonist keeps trying to tell you that chalkboard screeching is a beautiful symphony).

I hear the next book is better, and I'm looking forward to it. If it's more like the original book than this one, I'll be happy.

Interesting series

I really enjoyed the first book in this series. I like this one as well. My only negative is that I think it may have went on too long. Is definitely interesting if you're into this genre but at times I had trouble staying interested. If you like the first then give it a shot.