Ruby 7.5 - The Tookah's Tales

By: Meatball Fulton

Ruby steps into a tavern called The Tickly Tentacle. Standing behind the bar, polishing four glasses at the same time, is her old friend the Tookah. Since it's a quiet afternoon, the Tookah relates to Ruby some of the schemes and scams he's run on other planets, and how he barely escaped with his tentacles intact. A few of the Tookah's amusing tales are: " I Only Have Three Eyes for You"; "Clipper & Snipper"; "The Platinum Blonde in the Pink Pillbox Hat"; "Moonless Sonata", and "It Was a Sad Day in Noodle Town". Eleven stories in total.

©2009 Meatball Fulton (P)2009 ZBS Foundation

Great!

Ruby 7.5 was great. It is shorter and a little more low-key than previous stories about our galactic gumshoe (a good one). Both voice actors did a great job and made each story interesting. There is no cursing or explicit content, though there are some violence and shady dealings described. I highly recommend this audiobook for teens and adults.

RELENTLESS background music

More foreground music, actually. I think the director was trying to make up for the fact that the whole thing is done with only two voices. Also, presumably to get balanced performance time from the voice actors, Ruby intermittently starts narrating the the story the Tookah is telling, which is bizarre and confusing. Not the best Meatball Fulton effort