Eddie Fantastic... More like Eddie Snotty-pants

Eddie Fantastic by Chris Heimerdinger is a story about Eddie Fanta. Chris Heimerdinger is a local author and is not widely known. The story focuses on Eddie and a mysterious man nick-named the Lizard man, who we come to know as Louis Kosserinski. Eddie gets himself into trouble with a bully at school. He then goes to investigate the lizard man's house and find Louis is waiting for him. He learns that Louis looks the way he does because he had been very severely burned. It turns out that Louis is an inventor and genius who has invented several awesome devices, but the one Louis is most interested in for Eddie is the jacket. It can accelerate or decelerate time for the wearer. Louis insists that Eddie take the jacket for protection from the bully. When time is decelerated for the user it makes them super-fast in real time which makes them super dangerous because the smallest of touches is enhanced a hundredfold.

I enjoyed this book. Heimerdinger does a fairly decent job of constructing an interesting sc-fi story. Eddie is given great power and a great gift and his selfishness leads to trouble for him and his friends. The book does a good job at portraying how idiotic some teenagers can be when it comes to decisions involving the opposite sex.