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The first batch of titles had a similar structure - each book saw the lads become an animal, and while we learnt how gross or weird it might be, through [[:Category:Ali Sparkes|the author's]] punchy yet evocative writing, they just *had* to find a glass cube that their neighbourhood science freak, Petty Potts, needed to restore her knowledge. This series ramps that up a little - so much so that by book three, [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0192732382?tag=thebookbag-21&camp=1406&creative=6394&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0192732382&adid=10QE5CFJX2MKBZ2YB87Q&&ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thebookbag.co.uk%2Freviews%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DLizard_Loopy_by_Ali_Sparkes TURTLE TERROR], there seems no end to the unknown protagonist's power in compelling Josh and Danny to use the SWITCH sprays and change nature. But there is still a simple finding-things routine to follow.
The first block of volumes, for me, started off great, and had a couple of weaker titles nearer the end. This time, we start off fine, have a couple of average moments, and build to the end. Chameleon Chaos almost seems disposable in the over-arching scheme of things; [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0192732390?tag=thebookbag-21&camp=1406&creative=6394&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0192732390&adid=1CBCM4PTG1APS9SDMJP1&&ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thebookbag.co.uk%2Freviews%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DLizard_Loopy_by_Ali_Sparkes GECKO GLADIATOR], book four, has little to further things either, but is very droll with Sparkes' inventive way of picking up gender foibles in the young and spinning fun fantasy from them, as the twins get stuck in a hellish nightmare of pink girls - who are far more vicious than their bug-eat-bug world ever was.
ANACONDA ADVENTURE, title five, has too many pages given to recap at the beginning, as is needed when building an ongoing adventure saga for primary school children, but still manages the most gung-ho action and a jungle trial for one lead character. And come the end, with ALLIGATOR ACTION, we reach this series' ''Bad Wolf Bay'', as a lot has to be revealed, and not one, not two but three transformations are made by our boys.
