![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I could go on, but I guess I’ll sum this up with “Same characters, only slightly different story.” Abby Normal shows up for a couple of pages in a throwaway scene. There was a lot more of Lily this time around, and she was funny. They got a scene or two and they were amusing but that was it. I think we got all the laughs we could out of beating these villains up the first time. Well, there’s a different, surprising, leader but the rest is the same. That should be good since I loved them before, but everybody changes at least a little bit over a year or so. The characters were just kind of more of the same. And, yes, thank you, I do actually have an overdeveloped sense of potty humor. Like, I-wish-I-could-scrub-this-image-from-my-mind disturbing. Charlie’s new body was funny at the end of the first book but once it’s sustained for a while and some obvious drawbacks are pointed out, it just got disturbing. I may have chuckled once or twice this go ’round. I laughed/cried/snorted my way through A Dirty Job. My guess is that Christopher Moore signed a deal for a follow-up to A Dirty Job, time was up, so he knocked this out. What this feels like is a contractual obligation. The Squirrel People are restless, ghosts are swarming the Golden Gate Bridge, and there’s a man in a yellow suit drifting around stirring up trouble. Sophie seems to have lost her mojo at the same time that some freaky stuff starts going down again in San Francisco. ![]()
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