Sunday 21 October 2012

Monster by A. Lee Martinez

Started: Oct. 12, 2012
Finished: Oct. 15
Pages: 325

Monster is the kind of book that Tooth and Claw is not: it's funny, satirical, and exists both to make you laugh, and to make you laugh *at*.  What you're laughing *at* is mostly just everyday life.  It's the kind of book where the annoyance that disrupts your overnight shift stocking shelves at the supermarket isn't aggravating coworkers or a broken freezer....but yetis gorging on ice cream.  And the solution is calling the authorities, but the person who shows up to deal with the problem has received thaumaturgy training at the Community college.  Which would surprise you a lot more if your memory of magical events didn't get confusingly vague just moments after the yetis are removed or your apartment is destroyed by trolls.

Amusing, with no threat of profundity.

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