This is my very first audiobook review!
I listed to Rumblestar through the NetGalley app, which (before it updated and stopped working properly) meant I could listen while doing everything from housework to running.
Casper Tock lives a life full of strict timetables and hiding in lost property baskets. When he finds himself in Rumblestar, accompanied by the adventurous, stormy Utterly, with the fate of worlds both magical and more familiar at stake, all he wants to do is go home. He definitely doesn't want to set out on a journey that will see him face drizzle hags and storm ogres, or - more terrifying than anything else - consider making a friend.
If you want an example of brilliant, limitlessly magical and amusing world building, look no further than an Abi Elphinstone novel.
Casper and Utterly are brilliant characters who readers will instantly warm to. Casper's loneliness will strike a cord with anyone who has ever felt afraid to make a friend, and the emotional journey he goes through over the course of the novel is as uplifting as the dramatic one.
Nicky Diss's narration added an extra level of enjoyment to this story, and she had me giggling throughout as she brought Casper, Utterly and their companions vividly to life.
This definitely won't be the only time I listen to this story as an audiobook as I think my fantasy-loving six year old will really enjoy it too.
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