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The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
by Christopher Moore
When one of the citizens of Pine Cove commits suicide, the town psychiatrist Val decides to switch everyone's antidepressants for placebos. What Val doesn't realize is that around the same time a sea monster named Steve has come to town and worked his mojo on their serotonin levels. Many of the residents of Pine Cove are now terribly horny and seeking companionship wherever they can find it. This includes Molly, a former actress now crazy person, who comes across Steve after he had a run in with an exploding oil tanker. In the strangest relationship ever, Molly and Steve start wrecking havoc in Pine Cove. Steve has to eat after all! Constable Theo tries to investigate everything from the suicide to the disappearances, but it hindered by the fact that the county sheriff doesn't want Theo investigating anything. Throw into the mix the old blues singer who had a runin with Steve once before and Pine Cove has become a horny, crazy town.
I picked this one up after listening to Serpent of Venice. It wasn't nearly as good, but it was still entertaining. The situations Christopher Moore thinks up get more and more bizarre. A love affair between a sea monster and an actress, sure. An old bartender who has replaced so many body parts she is basically the bionic woman, why not. A pharmacist who goes along with Val's scheme because he dreams of sex with sea animals, ok. A town full of people who worship and willingly sacrifice themselves to a sea monster, if you want. It just gets stranger and stranger in Pine Cove. It is funny and inventive and pretty silly.
I picked this one up after listening to Serpent of Venice. It wasn't nearly as good, but it was still entertaining. The situations Christopher Moore thinks up get more and more bizarre. A love affair between a sea monster and an actress, sure. An old bartender who has replaced so many body parts she is basically the bionic woman, why not. A pharmacist who goes along with Val's scheme because he dreams of sex with sea animals, ok. A town full of people who worship and willingly sacrifice themselves to a sea monster, if you want. It just gets stranger and stranger in Pine Cove. It is funny and inventive and pretty silly.