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A review by odomaf
Clovenhoof by Heide Goody, Iain Grant
4.0
I can't even count how many times I laughed aloud reading this book. It's completely ridiculous, and it doesn't pretend to be anything else.
WHAT I LIKED
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* Snappy dialogue, whether quick-witted or (intended) conversational disasters between characters.
* The "business" aspects of heaven and hell, with their agendas, board meetings, performance review system, etc. My joy in this comes partly from having had such responsibilities in my own career.
* The level of absurdity brought me such delight. The author holds nothing back, each event and scene impossibly topping the last.
I usually include a "what I didn't like" section of reviews, but I wouldn't say there's anything in Clovenhoof that I really didn't like. The plot got a little "shaggy dog" and could have perhaps been tightened up a bit. The villain's motivations are a little flat and predictable by the end, but even that has a self-aware humor to it.
NOTE: This book is highly sacrilegious in it's satire and biting wit. If that kind of humor is not your taste for you on faith reasons, you want to avoid this book.
WHAT I LIKED
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* Snappy dialogue, whether quick-witted or (intended) conversational disasters between characters.
* The "business" aspects of heaven and hell, with their agendas, board meetings, performance review system, etc. My joy in this comes partly from having had such responsibilities in my own career.
* The level of absurdity brought me such delight. The author holds nothing back, each event and scene impossibly topping the last.
I usually include a "what I didn't like" section of reviews, but I wouldn't say there's anything in Clovenhoof that I really didn't like. The plot got a little "shaggy dog" and could have perhaps been tightened up a bit. The villain's motivations are a little flat and predictable by the end, but even that has a self-aware humor to it.
NOTE: This book is highly sacrilegious in it's satire and biting wit. If that kind of humor is not your taste for you on faith reasons, you want to avoid this book.