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A review by hischmidtj
Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore
3.0
I got this as a First Reads giveaway!
This was my first Christopher Moore book and I feel like I would have appreciated it more if I had read "A Dirty Job" first. It can stand alone, but I felt myself wanting to know what happened previously with Sophie becoming the Big D, the meat people, and a few other characters' beginnings.
Overall, I'd say this kept me entertained. I didn't struggle to get through it but I also wasn't itching to read during all my downtime. The story is unique and quirky. However, especially in the beginning, I felt like it was trying too hard to be funny. It has a really deliberate humor that has to mesh with your style.
There are just a lot of strange things in this book that seem to be thrown in simply to be strange. I like weird, but I like it to be weird with a purpose. Much of this fell flat while still somehow managing to be kind of clever.
This was my first Christopher Moore book and I feel like I would have appreciated it more if I had read "A Dirty Job" first. It can stand alone, but I felt myself wanting to know what happened previously with Sophie becoming the Big D, the meat people, and a few other characters' beginnings.
Overall, I'd say this kept me entertained. I didn't struggle to get through it but I also wasn't itching to read during all my downtime. The story is unique and quirky. However, especially in the beginning, I felt like it was trying too hard to be funny. It has a really deliberate humor that has to mesh with your style.
There are just a lot of strange things in this book that seem to be thrown in simply to be strange. I like weird, but I like it to be weird with a purpose. Much of this fell flat while still somehow managing to be kind of clever.