The Cupcaked Crusader is a book by Lawrance David. The story started off with the Cupcaked crusader, Horace Splattly with his friends, always hunting for mysterious things and events which took place in their daily school lives and record them in their book of conspiracies. Once, they discovered a large foot print which the size of Horace himself. They recorded this in the book of conspiracies. However, nothing monstrous had happened despite the appearance of the foot print.
Horace sister, Melody was doing an experiment for a project and wanted Horace to go over to their neighbour's house to spy on her. She made four cupcakes and wanted Horace to eat them. After taking two bites from two different cupcakes, Horace gained some powers and he could suddenly breathe out fire and could also fly. Wearing a purple suit made by his sister, Horace was sent on a mission to spy on their neighbour's project as mentioned.
Instead of helping his sister, Horace went around the city helping others and had fun himself. Then, when it was around the evening, Horace went to the park and saw his school's principal. while he was talking to Horace, a monster suddenly appeared from behind the principal and swallowed both of them. In the beast's stomach,Horace and the principal struggled and finally, after blowing out some fire, Horace managed to make the beast cough and spit them out. Horace knew that the Principal's brother, a science teacher had given his pet guinea pig some medicine and the guinea pig grew to a size of an elephant! He did this, planning to kill his brother and taking over the school.
After all the action, Horace was left with no more power. When he returned home, he stole the cupcakes and secretly hid the cupcakes somewhere and when he needed the powers, he would use them without the control and consent of his sister.
In the story, I enjoyed the part where Horace visited his best friends, who were twins. Horace blew fire into the chimney of their house and gave them a great fright. They thought that it was a fire breathing dragon. Then, Horace appeared from their glass window and was welcomed by the brothers.
At the beginning of the story, I like the part where Horace ate the cupcakes and gained his supernatural powers. The interesting part was him slowly discovering how to use and control his powers and experimenting them out.
I enjoyed reading the book. If there would to be a book 2, I would surely purchase it!
THis is a wonderful blog post that depicts the main elements of the book. It showcases the numerous funny moments in the story and tells us the basic plot structure of the story. I especially liked the part where Horace breathed down fire to scare his friends. Great job Arnold
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like an amazing book according to your book reveiew here. I also feel that the most enticing and interesting part of each and every book revolving magical powers is how the main character of the book tries out his magical powers. The very description of his magical powers just attracts and literally pulls the reader into the book. Then, you will find yourself thinking about all those tricks all day long and for myself, I even pretend to be able to cast the magical spells out myself. Just thinking of these moments make me laugh. Thanks for the wonderful post Arnold.
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