Hi everyone! I had a hectic semester and Reading Week but I (FINALLY) bring you the review of a book I was recently introduced to but absolutely love. A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore was recommended to me by a couple of friends and I finally got around to reading it, a couple of long car trips help a lot with that.
“A Dirty Job” by Christopher Moore is a fantastical romp through the life of the new Grim reaper!!!
“A Dirty Job” is the first in the Grim Reaper Series by Christopher Moore. The series follows Charlie Asher on adventures he never before conceived as possible.
Our story starts on a not very remarkable day, just a day like any other. Charlie and his wife are in the hospital, about to have their first child.
Everything seems to be fine but Charlie’s wife dies delivering their daughter, Sophie. From then on Charlie keeps noticing random omens and weird occurrences around him. The first one of these is a man in a mint green suit, who apparently, no one should be able to see. (Later there are also two large black hellhounds, a la Dog from Good Omens, that show up to be Sophie and Charlie’s dogs and he can’t for the life of him figure out where they came from.
A copy of the Great Big Book of Death gets delivered to his antique shop but he never gets it, his shop assistant makes off with it and tries to figure out why Charlie Asher, of all people, would be chosen to be the new Grim Reaper.
He does finally get the book but still the ongoing omens don’t make sense to him so he seeks out other “Death Merchants.” It really doesn’t go well, he meets great people (Minty Fresh!!) but more and more demons from the underworld keep stealing soul vessels and causing chaos to pave the way for “their lord.”
Charlie and Minty’s jobs as death merchants are to keep these demons at bay in order that they don’t overwhelm the world above. Will they succeed? Read on to find out!
Christopher Moore takes a hilariously irreverent take on death similar to Good Omens’ hilarious take on religion and Christianity. While it is hilarious and irreverent it also deals with serious topics very well. This well written tour-de-force is a hysterically funny book that merits reading again and again.
The Adventures of Charlie and Sophie Asher are sure to become classics like Good Omens, The Graveyard Book and the Discworld Series.
“A Dirty Job” is the first in the Grim Reaper Series by Christopher Moore. The series follows Charlie Asher on adventures he never before conceived as possible.
Our story starts on a not very remarkable day, just a day like any other. Charlie and his wife are in the hospital, about to have their first child.
Everything seems to be fine but Charlie’s wife dies delivering their daughter, Sophie. From then on Charlie keeps noticing random omens and weird occurrences around him. The first one of these is a man in a mint green suit, who apparently, no one should be able to see. (Later there are also two large black hellhounds, a la Dog from Good Omens, that show up to be Sophie and Charlie’s dogs and he can’t for the life of him figure out where they came from.
A copy of the Great Big Book of Death gets delivered to his antique shop but he never gets it, his shop assistant makes off with it and tries to figure out why Charlie Asher, of all people, would be chosen to be the new Grim Reaper.
He does finally get the book but still the ongoing omens don’t make sense to him so he seeks out other “Death Merchants.” It really doesn’t go well, he meets great people (Minty Fresh!!) but more and more demons from the underworld keep stealing soul vessels and causing chaos to pave the way for “their lord.”
Charlie and Minty’s jobs as death merchants are to keep these demons at bay in order that they don’t overwhelm the world above. Will they succeed? Read on to find out!
Christopher Moore takes a hilariously irreverent take on death similar to Good Omens’ hilarious take on religion and Christianity. While it is hilarious and irreverent it also deals with serious topics very well. This well written tour-de-force is a hysterically funny book that merits reading again and again.
The Adventures of Charlie and Sophie Asher are sure to become classics like Good Omens, The Graveyard Book and the Discworld Series.
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