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Once and Future feels very much like the grown-up, transgressive interpretation of a poorly remembered, nostalgia-infused, Saturday morning cartoon that you loved as a child. Apart from a few clangers in the dialogue, where key facts about the characters are told rather than shown, and the naming of more than a few isms sit very incongruously within the otherwise natural world-building and get blurted out and immediately date the text, the story is very cleverly balanced, with what at first seems like odd weighting given to some characters and not others, evening out by the end. In fact, I can even see an argument that the book is structured so well, really few characters stand out from the group, despite it being a story about the rise of a hero. The book is gentle, sensitive, kind and indignant, and throws a few curves to stop it staying predictable. The narration is brilliant, and lends a lot of humour, tenderness and blossoming to the story that might not have come across just from the text. Very fun, and in some places, laugh out loud funny.

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