I finished my contract for work and I've been binge reading, a not so bad experience! I finished this book in one day, how heavenly to read and read and read for as long as I wanted!
Moore writes strange, darkly humorous tales with fast, wise-cracking dialogue. I've read most of his previous books so I snatched this one when I saw it at the library.
How to describe a Christopher Moore story? In this one, his hero, Chris, is trapped in a 14 inch high cobbled together body made of spam and mechanical parts wrapped in a shiny robe, the result of almost being killed in a previous book by the forces of evil, three harpies from hell. The hero's daughter is the queen of death, though only 7 years old. She's being cared for by a lesbian couple and watched over by neighboring Chinese and Russian? grandmothers. Chris's girlfriend has an army of meat puppets under her Victorian style home that she makes outfits for. They are all riled up when the forces of evil return and start stealing souls instead of allowing them to pass on to heaven. Weird? That's just the start of it.
I always laugh out loud at Moore's books and the absurd, fantastical, irreverent characters and story line. Not for the faint of heart.
Published: 2015 Read: October 2015 Genre: Fiction, humor
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