Disclaimer: This review and score only represent my personal opinion of this book. Team scores might vary.

Percival Gynt and the Conspiracy of Days is a science-fantasy novel, written by Drew Melbourne, and one of the SPSFC2 finalists. The death of the famous magician Illuminari has ended his greatest illusion, and now the Engine of Armageddon, a doomsday weapon might fall into the hands of dark forces, provocating an apocalypse unless somebody manages to stop this.

Here is where our hero, Percival Gynt, accountant enters the scene. Part-time hero, he's the saviour our universe needs; soon we get thrown into a crazy adventure that will take us on a trip across the universe in order to retrieve the Engine of Armageddon.

Melbourne has created a really quirky adventure, with a total antihero as the main character, in a style that could remember as Austin Powers. Crazy situations will happen, some of them really absurd, which felt rather confusing in my opinion; while I understand what was the idea behind this kind of plot, I would have enjoyed it more if it was less quirky and more "logical", we could say.

Pacing is extremely fast, trying to emulate the style of an adventure film; something that shines in action scenes, but makes the plot even more confusing, because it is extremely complicated at some points.

Don't get me wrong, I think this book can be highly enjoyable if you are in the mood for a crazy and funny adventure, and I can see why other people pushed this book into the finals. Not exactly my cup of tea, but I would like to see a second adventure of Percival Gynt.