Product Description

Hermux Tantamoq is an ordinary, hard-working mouse, living in an ordinary metropolis. But when adventuress and aviatrix Linka Perflinger walks into his watchmaker's shop, his life becomes anything but ordinary. Linka disappears very mysteriously and Hermux, more than a little in love with her, sets out to find her. Adventure and danger follow as he uncovers a quest for the formula for eternal youth.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #50142 in Books
• Published on: 2003-01-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

About the Author
Michael Hoeye worked in New York as a textile designer, stagehand, fashion photographer and high school teacher. He completed graduate work in psychiatry and religion in Manhattan and then moved to Oregon, where he still lives. He taught Management of Creativity and Innovation at Maryhurst University before turning to writing. This is his first published novel.

Customer Reviews

Time Stops for No Mouse : from an adult perspective.
Childrens books are becoming very popular for the adults of today. After a long day at work, more and more people are finding that they don't want a challenging read and are happy to throw away their pretensions and pick up a kids' book for an evening read.

Time Stops for No Mouse is perfect for these adults. The main character is a bachelor mouse named Hermux who fixes watches, enjoys coffee with donuts, reading and going to the opera. Then he meets Linka Perflinger, an adventuress mouse who he falls in love with at first sight. When Ms Perflinger disappears, Hermux decides to abandon his quiet ways to find and save her and hopefully win her heart at the same time.

Think Niles Crane as a mouse and you've got the "hero" of the story!

The novel is sweet, exciting, romantic, and very funny. Get yourself a coffee, sit yourself somewhere comfortable and pick up the book. You will soon forget the all troubles of real adult life.

best book I've read in ages
Micheal Hoey may not be as well known as J.k. Rowling, or tolkien, but he should be, and very soon will be.
This book is one for keeps. The atmosphere set out in the book is brilliant, and the humour of Mice making osmetics. Sometimes, you forget they are mice, all due to his witty writing.
You really do feel for the characters because they feel so real. When one gets knocked over, you feel sorry for them, and angry for the one who knocked him, and the relationships between the characters, also is incredible.
Buy this book, and brace yourself for the best read in your life.
Don't use a lamp, it will cost a fortne in electricity, you can't turn it off!
I reccomend this to anyone, between 6 and right through to adult
this is one not to be missed

A Perfect Bedtime Storybook
This is the first Hermux Tantamoq adventure - an intriguing little tale about a watchmaker mouse. Hermux is shy and pedantic, and longs for an adventure. When the dashing aviatrix Ms Perflinger leaves her travel watch to be repaired, Hermux finds himself thrown into more adventures than he could possibly have imagined.

All of the characters in this book are mice - but not living beneath the floorboards in human's houses. No, they inhabit their own beautifully detailed and believable mouse world. The characterization is delightful - and although aimed at young readers, will appeal to many an older reader with a taste for whimsy and anthropomorphized stories. The plot is a kind of 'whodunit' - and requires the reader paying close attention if they are to solve all the clues.

The book is divided into lots and lots of mini-chapters - some no longer than a page or two in length. This makes it the ideal bedtime storybook for reading aloud to little sleepyheads!