Tom would love to be sucked away from his dull life and become The Chosen One in a fantastical other world. The problem is, his life doesn't suck enough. He gets ok grades, his family cares about him and he doesn't have to worry about bullies. It's not that he's popular, he just isn't interesting in any way to warrant being the kind of person that those kinds of things happen to...until it does. Tom gets whisked away into a fantastical world made mostly of old clothes and used junk from earth. And the king sits on a throne made of towels and an Igloo cooler, and his Chosen One duties consist of cleaning the snot out of the rats noses....so Tom quits being the chosen one because the kingdom is, well, crap. Then a new Chosen One is called, and it turns out to be Tom's best friend Kyle. Kyle learns to do all kinds of awesome magic and the citizens of Crap Kingdom love Kyle, and Tom gets a little jealous. There's accidental betrayals and power struggles and dimension hopping.
It's a very funny book, and an enjoyable read, but the book does suffer from the author's poor descriptive skills. I'd never really appreciated good world building in novels until now. When we venture into a strange world in the final third of the book, I found myself very confused as to the generally geography. I couldn't really picture anything that was being described and it bummed me out because it seemed like the author had something neat in mind. Between that, and the rather abrupt ending, a rather well done book ended on kind of a low note.
7/10
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