In this fantasy novel, a giant named Boder sets out to prove his worth through a series of challenges and adventures across the continent of Durogg which is populated by manimals - those who are half human and half animal. Some years ago, these people had worked to rid themselves of Boder, a ten-meter-tall giant pest. The stories say he had been marauding among their farming communities and consuming everything is sight. But the truth, as always, is a little bit more complicated than that.

Boder has been outcast and exiled to live on an island in the middle of a large river, when an...