There’s a famous painting with many thieves after it, including Bandette - who’ll get it and what is its six fingered secret?! Sacre bleurgh, what a potentially wacky storyline sure to make you hee haw hee haw!
Err… yeah, I think I’m done with Bandette. Paul Tobin’s story is never interesting - I didn’t care about the painting or who got it or why. There are too many characters so the whole thing descends into farce - this person’s got the painting, now this person, and so on har har hmm… I know that’s the point but it didn’t work for me.
And speaking of the “humour”, it’s tiresome at best. Bandette likes sweets - repeat ad nauseam! It’s too cutesy by half and never anywhere close to remotely amusing. There’s a half-hearted attempt at a romance between two supporting characters that never took off and the ending promises a wedding in the next book - couldn’t have been more uninterested in any of that guff!
Colleen Coover’s painted art remains lovely and Bandette’s generally still quite a likeable character, and her lil dog Pimento is tres adorbs, but this series, for me anyway, is played out and boring. Bandette, Volume 4: The Six Finger Secret is more tedious than mime!
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