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  • The Splendid and Extraordinary Life of Beautimus Potamus plus the Anam Glyphs: Bonus Edition

  • By: Peggy A. Wheeler
  • Narrated by: Kelley Hazen
  • Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
  • 3.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

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The Splendid and Extraordinary Life of Beautimus Potamus plus the Anam Glyphs: Bonus Edition

By: Peggy A. Wheeler
Narrated by: Kelley Hazen
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This Duology contains both the novel The Splendid and Extraordinary Life of Beautimus Potamus and the companion divination tool: The Anam Glyphs.

The mystical green planet of Rendaz is home to devout goddess worshiper and university professor, middle-aged Beautimus Potamus - who also happens to be a hippo plagued by hot flashes and poor self-esteem. Beautimus forms an alliance with Samuel S. Goodwings, a younger womanizing, atheist praying mantis. When these two are together, life morphs from the mundane into the fantastic. Our unlikely duo solve mysteries, bring a murderer to justice, and even help end a war, while experiencing their own trials, triumphs, and tragedies. Often with humor, their situations and adventures parody Earth culture.

During their exploits, the two interact with a host of characters, including a pair of New Age flamingos, an A.D.H.D. afflicted trout, an orangutan detective, and a 310-year-old blue crane High Priestess. All of these creatures are more “human” in surprising ways than the citizens of the blue planet, Earth, we discover was once a Rendazian Colony.

Beautimus Potamus’ tongue-in-cheek story is a magical fable-stew made with the ingredients of satire, drama, social commentary, and comedy, with jests, puns and wordplay sprinkled throughout. For good measure, a generous pinch of romantic flavoring is thrown into the pot.

Beautimus Potamus - a talking hippo on the mythical planet, Rendaz - is a university professor at Dr. Pimbly’s School of Goodly Educated Adults, a writer, and a maker of oracles.

From Rendazian and Earthian archetypical symbols, Beautmus developed her own divination tool, The Anam Glyphs. And, with the assistance of her “Hu Man” co-author on Earth, Peggy A. Wheeler, she has written a book about her oracle.

Part fantastical fiction and part “how to”, The Anam Glyphs is a guide to creating and interpreting universal divination stones so that seekers may better define their life’s path, discover answers to pressing questions, and catch a glimpse of their destiny. There are thirty-two glyphs, each with its own distinct symbol. Beautimus and Peggy provide instruction on how to create the stones, cast them, read them, and interpret their meanings.

Woven throughout the guide are oft-time humorous anecdotes from Beautimus’ life on Rendaz, and brief commentary from Peggy A. Wheeler.

©2019 Peggy A. Wheeler (P)2019 Peggy A. Wheeler, Dragon Moon Press, Kelley Hazen
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The inhabitants of Rendaz are like us in many ways

I found this quite weird to start with but the animal characters were quite charming and that made me want to continue. It took a while for the story to really get started but then it was almost like a series, with Beautimus Potamus having many adventures, which were eventually all tied in together.
The inhabitants of Rendaz are just like us in many ways, except that they are animals. They are actually where our animals originally descend from, ours have just forgotten how to talk. Rendazians love Earth culture, watching our TV shows and naming their children after Earth celebrities.
Everyone sounds so sweet and lovely it could be almost be a children's book. But is does get surprisingly violent with quite a lot of swearing a bit later in the book.
The narration is good with many different sounding voices so you can always tell which character is speaking.

The second book in the collection is all about how Bea created the Anam Glyphs which she uses in the first book. There's an explanation of the glyphs, how to make them and how to use them. If you're interested in fortune telling then you'll find this intetesting. Otherwise it doesn't really add anything to the story.
There is also a note from the author describing how Beautimus Potamus came to her.

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