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Beezer

By: Brandon T. Snider
Narrated by: Fred Berman, Eric Yves Garcia, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Margaret Ying Drake, Ellen Archer, Steve Rimpici, Jennifer Van Dyck, Neil Hellegers, Sanjiv Jhaveri, Gabriel Vaughan, Josh Hurley
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Beelzebub, the prince of demons, is bored. It's his destiny to one day rule the dark underworld known as the Red Realm, but it's sooo boring down there. All he wants to do is lay around all day in the lava pits (ahhh), boss everyone around (rude!), and maybe play a cruel prank (or two). But Beelzebub's father has had it with his son's nasty attitude. No one backtalks the Red King. NO ONE.

A disgraced Beelzebub is banished by his father and cursed to spend his days in the worst place either of them can imagine. EARTH. Now Beezer (his new name...which he hates...) has to navigate a family (who are way too nice for his liking) that doesn't know the truth behind where he really came from. Oh, and his human body? Not a fan. Too many feelings! And it makes weird sounds.

What would Beezer do to get back home and reclaim his rightful place next to his father? Anything it takes. That is unless, he finds a new path (ugh work).

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About the Creator

Brandon T. Snider is the best-selling author of the award-winning Dark Knight Manual, as well as the Avengers: Infinity War: The Cosmic Quest series. Additionally, he's written books featuring Cartoon Network favorites like Adventure Time and Regular Show, Marvel's Spider-Man, and Black Panther, plus pop culture icons such as Justice League, Transformers, and The Muppets. Brandon has also written for and appeared on Comedy Central's Inside Amy Schumer. As an actor, he's appeared on Bull, Rachel Dratch’s Late Night Snack, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and Law & Order: SVU, as well as various commercials, plays, and short films. Brandon lives in New York City, where he's a member of the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA.

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Fred Berman (Beezlebub)
Joniece Abbott-Pratt (Lucy)
Margaret Ying Drake (Dash)

About the Performer

Fred Berman is an award-winning narrator of more than 200 books. A New York native, Berman brings energy and enthusiasm to every project, whether it’s mystery or fantasy, biography or YA. He is an accomplished actor of both the stage and screen as well, performing on Broadway as Timon in The Lion King and Off-Broadway in The Normal Heart, Room Service, and Bury The Dead, among others. On television, he has had roles in HBO’s High Maintenance as well as the NBC series Smash and Law & Order and Forever on ABC. His film credits include: Putzel, The Judge, Twelve Thirty, A Very Special Episode, and Directing Eddie. Fred is also a drummer and played for many years with the NYC rock legends, Lisa Jackson & Girl Friday. He lives in New York with his wife and two kids, banging out Rush songs on the drums in his basement in his spare time.

About the Performer

Joniece Abbott-Pratt lends her voice to stories for children, young adult fiction, and romance novels in her work as an audiobook narrator. As an actress, she has performed Off-Broadway and on regional stages across the country. Her theater credits include: The Good Negro (Public Theater, New York City), Seven Guitars (Actors Theater of Louisville), The Mountaintop (Geva Theatre), The House That Will Not Stand (Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Yale Repertory), Gem of the Ocean (Hartford Stage), False Creeds Piano Lesson (Yale Rep and Delaware Theatre Company). She has also appeared on numerous television shows, including Instinct, Blindspot, Law & Order: SVU, Orange Is the New Black, Show Me a Hero, and Luke Cage. Joniece graduated from Clark Atlanta University, holds an MFA from University of Iowa, and lives in Newark, New Jersey.

About the Performer

Margaret Ying Drake discovered a passion for voice-over early in her acting career, specializing in children's voices. Her work includes voicing Butterbean in Nick Jr.'s Butterbean's Cafe and various characters in Nickelodeon animations, toys, games for Scholastic and PBS, and radio commercials. Margaret studied theater at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, and has worked in theater, dance, commercials, and film, most notably in the award-winning indie They Look Like People and 2018’s The Rusalka. Playing the role of Zero in Zero G was her first venture into audiobooks. She takes on the role of Dash in Beezer.

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Who would have thought I would like the Devil's son.

Well the devil' son in this story is likable. You find yourself routing for the little imp towards the ends.

Good always wins out.

Love this story. My only issue is it wasnt long enough for my liking.

Also, is there a part 2 coming. It kinda ending like one is coming along. ;)

The Devil I Like

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The conceit of Brandon T. Snider’s Beezer (2019) is that Beezlebub, prince of demons and of hell (the Red Realm), so disappoints his father for lying around playing pranks or games instead of studying dark arts, cultivating supernatural powers, or desiring to destroy souls, that Lucifer banishes him to earth, where he wakes up as a newly adopted thirteen-year-old boy (called Beezer) in a quirky loving family comprised of mother Jessica Lewis and fellow adoptees eleven-year old Lucy and nine-year-old Dash, each of the three children being a different skin color. How will he fit into this multiracial “lovey dovey” family into group hugs and supporting and communicating with each other no matter what? Especially when Jessica is out of work, scrambling to get by, and receiving charity food. What will happen when Beezer goes to the mall or public library or meets kids from Lucy and Dash’s school? Will he ever be able to access his innate dark powers or open a portal leading back to the Red Realm? Will he ever get used to his human body, with its unfortunate needs and weaknesses?

The best lines express Beezer’s perceptions of new experiences in his human earthbound body. He says things like, “Exiled to this backwater heaven-hole without powers,” “This human skin suit is so heavy,” and “Being human is so weird.” When hearing chirping birds, he says, “Quiet, you earth harpies.” When told about the mall, he says, “A meeting place where sad people buy things and eat slop in a court.” When trying to influence a worker to give him a red suit, he calls her, “Human saleswoman.” Such moments are one of the pleasures of the book.

That said, it is geared too obviously for kids, with body humor aplenty--belches, farts, boogers, peeing, etc. As well as too much too speedy and righteous and definitive comeuppance for too obviously awful bullies. And the characters talk too much American sitcom English. Even before he is exiled to Earth, Beezer talks for some reason like a boy raised on American TV shows, saying things like, “What I’m telling you is that this place sucks” and “Get real,” and “Oh no no no no!” and “You’re the prince of fricking demons” etc. (This problem obtains with Disney movies like Moanna, Frozen, and Tangled, where the protagonist in a fantasy story with no narrative connection to America talks like they’ve been weaned on American sit com dialogue.)

Furthermore, all the “We're here for you no matter what” and group hugs and deep breaths and express your feelings and be yourself can almost get cloying.

Interestingly, some audible reviewers say the book is not for kids, and I have no idea what they mean. There’s no sex or graphic violence or swearing, so… Does the supposed problem for kids derive from the protagonist being the demon prince of hell and from the story featuring witchcraft, imps, goblins, demons, and hags, not to mention Lucifer himself? Why would those necessarily be bad things for kids to read about (or to listen to)? It must be a Christian thing? The story itself is all about finding one's own life-road in the context of a loving (multiracial) family (“Families come in all shapes and sizes”), about treating people with kindness and respect, and about getting outside your comfort zone to try new things. The only non-salubrious thing in it for kids I noticed was the sitcom American English!

The concept is fun and there are funny moments and surprising developments (like Beezer’s “coming out” to the Lewises), and the voice acting by Fred Berman as Beezlebub, Janiece Abbott-Pratt as Lucy, and Margaret Ying Drake as Dash, is lively and smooth (once you get used to Berman’s overly dramatic flourishes as Beezer). The radio drama-like audiobook is entertaining and doesn’t overstay its welcome. I even want to listen to the sequel.

Amusing, if a Little Damaged by Sitcom English

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I really enjoyed the premise of the story. I really loved how Beelzebub came to know his true self. And it showed the power of family. definitely five stars

Surprisingly good book.

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I actually liked this short book that what to play it again to my grandson. It was actually a good story usually most of the monthly freebies are a miss. But this one hit the target board.

Great audio book for monthly freebie

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I loved all the characters. I recommend for all ages. I hope there's more coming.

I'm amazed and I recommend

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This book was adorable. The voice acting was great, I laughed so much listening to it.

This was adorable

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Loved it! Cute, quirky and funny! It was a surprisingly fun book to listen to!

Fun throughout!

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Enjoyable, snazzy and different! The story was imaginative with believable characters. Loved the vocal performance!

Great

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Fun story. Clever writing. Lot of great narrators. Both me and the kids enjoyed it.

Fun

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This was a great book.. lThe story behind it was ngood & I enjoyed all the characters. Thumbs up for this one.

i really enjoyed this story5

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