Rating: R (Adult Content) 
I typically am found with a young adult book clutched in my hands, but I went exploring and stumbled across this little beauty.
Christopher Moore takes the idea of Death and places a completely new idea on it. What if Death wasn't just one person? What if people really didn't have souls - or at least didn't have them for part of their lives? What if getting souls to the correct person was the reason if the world fell into destruction or not? What happens when a quiet Beta Male has been plucked from his everyday life and been chosen for something special?
Charlie Asher is a fairly normal man trying to survive as a single father after his wife passed away unexpectedly. After meeting a man in a mint green suit, his life is turned upside down and he finds that people keep dropping dead around him, shadows aren't all that they seem, and his secondhand store has a tendency to attract glowing red objects that only he can see.
Charlie Asher has stumbled into a new job that he can't really refuse, no matter how hard he tries. You see, he is one of San Francisco's own Death Merchants. His job is to gather up the souls of the deceased and help them find their resting place..er...body.
I enjoyed this book greatly. I found laughable and sobering moments throughout it. I thought that it was pretty well written. I have been advised to dive into Lamb next. We shall see.
Until next time,
Kaity
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