Reviews with content warning for Racism - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

So much personality, lots of good humor and wit, this book was an absolute joy to read from start to finish. Literally had me smiling and chuckling in my seen like a lunatic. Serotonin fr.

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funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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matcha_cat's review against another edition

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adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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juliasilva's review against another edition

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adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

If you’d have asked me in the first 2/3 of the book what I thought of it, I’d have said I loved it and given it a 4.5/5 stars. The characters are given so much life through charming moments, funny dialogue and this carries a large part of the novel. But the structure and pacing of the novel is indicating the authors’ attempt to make it equally plot-driven, and unfortunately, this is where it lost me. Towards the finale, it became such a slog to finish. The way their large cast of characters came together at the end for the literal apocalypse (should be cool and epic?) was so anticlimactic and uninspiring. By far the most egregious example of this is

with how much time we spent building up the 4 horsemen and how interesting they were only for them to poof out of existence within the span of half a page?? Genuinely what the fuck was that

. It felt like Gaiman and Pratchett had so much fun coming up with these interesting characters and really dug in there but just got tired when it came to resolving the plot and made it painful to get through. The finale was a 1 star out of 5 for me so I’m splitting the difference in my total rating.

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meganpbennett's review against another edition

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adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

A while after watching the short TV series, I finally read Good Omens, which everyone has been telling me to read for years. It was funny, though a lot of things happened at once. The first half of the book really felt as though I was missing part of the series, like when you accidentally pick up book two in a series, and while it does stand on its own, you miss some important details about the characters.

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adventurous funny lighthearted

3.25

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wetsokcs's review against another edition

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fast-paced

bit disappointing to find homophobia and racism in the book after liking to show for as long as I have

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