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A review by bukola
Death, the Devil, and the Goldfish by Andrew Buckley
3.0
[a:Andrew Buckley|1331527|Andrew Buckley|https://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-d9f6a4a5badfda0f69e70cc94d962125.png]Death, the Devil and the Goldfish is a story of how the devil leaves hell, death quits his job and a gold fish tells the future. Lucifer, or Luci as he is fondly called by the angel of death (much to his annoyance), signs a contract which allows him to leave hell and inhabit a human body for seven days, only he forgets to read the small print, and as you know, the devil is in the details – pun not intended.
The Devil does not get the body he thinks he would, and so has to improvise. He plans to take over the world and wreck havoc, and actually does an impressive job of it, until Nigel, a newly fired Detective with an unusually calm demeanour and a slight gambling problem; Celina, an artificial intelligence genius who makes her Scottish ancestors proud with her legendary fits of rage; Gerald, a penguin in a human body; Eggnogg, the dancing elf; Death who previously quit his job citing under appreciation; and a prophetic, information spinning gold fish are brought together to form a kick ass team by Heinrich the waiter, who isn’t really a waiter at all.
I have to say, there are quite a number of characters in this book, and a number of things going on at the same time, but most of them tie together in the end. There are still a few dangling parts, but I suppose those are left for the sequel.
All the characters are as real and mad as can be expected in a devil-hijacks-earth kind of story, but the angel of Death is my favourite. He felt the most real to me and he is cool in a “you-won’t-remember-me-in-the-next-minute” way. Overall, I enjoyed reading this book.
The Devil does not get the body he thinks he would, and so has to improvise. He plans to take over the world and wreck havoc, and actually does an impressive job of it, until Nigel, a newly fired Detective with an unusually calm demeanour and a slight gambling problem; Celina, an artificial intelligence genius who makes her Scottish ancestors proud with her legendary fits of rage; Gerald, a penguin in a human body; Eggnogg, the dancing elf; Death who previously quit his job citing under appreciation; and a prophetic, information spinning gold fish are brought together to form a kick ass team by Heinrich the waiter, who isn’t really a waiter at all.
I have to say, there are quite a number of characters in this book, and a number of things going on at the same time, but most of them tie together in the end. There are still a few dangling parts, but I suppose those are left for the sequel.
All the characters are as real and mad as can be expected in a devil-hijacks-earth kind of story, but the angel of Death is my favourite. He felt the most real to me and he is cool in a “you-won’t-remember-me-in-the-next-minute” way. Overall, I enjoyed reading this book.