Review by archis - Good omens. Le belle e accurate profezie di Agnes Nutter, strega

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Good omens. Le belle e accurate profezie di Agnes Nutter, strega by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

4.0

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

TL;DR: Delightfully absurd, carried by an angel who isn’t entirely good and a demon who isn’t completely evil.

“Fruit tree in the middle of a garden with a ‘Don’t Touch’ sign. I mean, why not put it on the top of a high mountain? Or on the moon? Makes you wonder what God’s really planning.”

Reading Good Omens felt like being caught in a cosmic joke that’s both absurd and oddly profound.

What I loved most are the characters. Aziraphale and Crowley shine as a duo — funny, heartfelt, and surprisingly touching. The cast in general is positively weird, with people of all ages fighting to save the world.

The satire about religion, human nature, and the apocalypse is witty and clever, though at times weighed down by dated cultural references and jokes. The black humor was sometimes a bit too much, but I recognize that it’s entirely subjective.

The structure was maybe the weakest part for me: long “days” instead of chapters and rapid POV shifts made it harder to get immersed.

A comedy of the apocalypse that’s oddly comforting, reminding you that many problems, in the end… are not the end of the world.

Final note: this book was written by two authors. One of them is dead, and the other has been recently exposed as a heinous criminal. I’ll keep my review to honor the work of a brilliant deceased author, though with a bitter taste in my mouth. This book is full of quotes about good and evil, and how despicable humanity is. As such, it’s difficult not to see hypocrisy, but we won’t ever really know how much of that was written by whom. In the unknown, I choose to cherish what Sir Pratchett left us.

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