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A review by kitsuneheart
Jam by Yahtzee Croshaw
5.0
THIS BOOK IS SO WEIRD, I LOVE IT!
Everything that happens in this novel seems straight out of a comedy skit, or a bad science fiction movie, but with the characters taking everything 100% seriously and the author taking things 0% seriously, it ends up being genuinely funny.
The book opens with Brisbane, Australia suddenly covered in jam. Malicious jam. It eats anything organic, and it seems to have some control over its form, rising up and overturning structures to get at the last human survivors. Travis, the narrator, must find a way to survive and discover the source of the jam, with one small complication: Travis is stupid. Like. He makes every wrong choice. At the worst possible time. And then can only act defensive when he's called out on his errors. Despite his main character trait being something you'd find infuriating in real life, readers are forced to like the guy simply because every other character in the book is an even worse person. All in their own unique ways!
Highly recommended. And the audiobook, read by Yahtzee himself? So good! Only problem: you've got to listen to it at 2.5x speed for the real Yahtzee effect.
...seriously. That's how I listened, it was amazing.
Everything that happens in this novel seems straight out of a comedy skit, or a bad science fiction movie, but with the characters taking everything 100% seriously and the author taking things 0% seriously, it ends up being genuinely funny.
The book opens with Brisbane, Australia suddenly covered in jam. Malicious jam. It eats anything organic, and it seems to have some control over its form, rising up and overturning structures to get at the last human survivors. Travis, the narrator, must find a way to survive and discover the source of the jam, with one small complication: Travis is stupid. Like. He makes every wrong choice. At the worst possible time. And then can only act defensive when he's called out on his errors. Despite his main character trait being something you'd find infuriating in real life, readers are forced to like the guy simply because every other character in the book is an even worse person. All in their own unique ways!
Highly recommended. And the audiobook, read by Yahtzee himself? So good! Only problem: you've got to listen to it at 2.5x speed for the real Yahtzee effect.
...seriously. That's how I listened, it was amazing.