- Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Orbit US; Reprint edition (29 Mar 2012)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0316093564
- ISBN-13: 978-0316093569
- Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 2.5 x 17.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 184,662 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Abundant, zany humor." (Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly on Monster )
Divine Misfortune reads like a mash-up of Neil Gaiman, Monty Python, and a sugar-bombed nine-year old (Locus Locus )
Divine Misfortune reads like a mash-up of Neil Gaiman, Monty Python, and a sugar-bombed nine-year old (Locus Locus )
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Unspeakable horrors inhabit the Earth in this hilarious new novel from the author of Divine Misfortune.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a pleasantly diverting cosmic-horror romp.
When Diana, looking for an apartment to rent, finds one that almost seems made for her - right down to the posters on the walls - it comes with a catch, an unspeakable monster from Beyond called Vom the Hungerer. Diana is supposed to keep Vom shut up in a cupboard: she can only leave her home if she lets him out, but if she lets him out, he eats her.
Diana's new home isn't the only one housing strange secrets. There is Chuck, who's scared - almost - to death of the apparently sweet puppy that guards his front door. There's the couple who share a Thing between them, taking turns to host it.
Diana has stumbled across one of those places where other worlds leak over, all sanity-blasting horrors and strange angles. It is a place where the future of the Universe(s) is daily at risk and having to be rescued by the ordinary seeming caretaker to the block, assisted, now, by Diana, whose exposure to the uncanny has given her magical powers (as well immortality - so long as she manages to avoid being eaten by Vom).
Add to this a buch of crazed cultists worshiping fenris, a being from another dimension who just wants to get home - except that getting home means eating the Moon and rending the fabric of reality - the real threat that the world will be taken over by giant ants - and the difficulties of Diana having any sort of social life whille accompanies by Vom, Zap, Pogo (the apparently sweet puppy) and a string of other horrors, and this is a cheerfully entertaining take on cosmic horror, reminding me in part of Agent to the Stars in which John Scalzi takes a similarly irreverant line with UFO visitors. Great fun to read, no need to look for anything profound.
When Diana, looking for an apartment to rent, finds one that almost seems made for her - right down to the posters on the walls - it comes with a catch, an unspeakable monster from Beyond called Vom the Hungerer. Diana is supposed to keep Vom shut up in a cupboard: she can only leave her home if she lets him out, but if she lets him out, he eats her.
Diana's new home isn't the only one housing strange secrets. There is Chuck, who's scared - almost - to death of the apparently sweet puppy that guards his front door. There's the couple who share a Thing between them, taking turns to host it.
Diana has stumbled across one of those places where other worlds leak over, all sanity-blasting horrors and strange angles. It is a place where the future of the Universe(s) is daily at risk and having to be rescued by the ordinary seeming caretaker to the block, assisted, now, by Diana, whose exposure to the uncanny has given her magical powers (as well immortality - so long as she manages to avoid being eaten by Vom).
Add to this a buch of crazed cultists worshiping fenris, a being from another dimension who just wants to get home - except that getting home means eating the Moon and rending the fabric of reality - the real threat that the world will be taken over by giant ants - and the difficulties of Diana having any sort of social life whille accompanies by Vom, Zap, Pogo (the apparently sweet puppy) and a string of other horrors, and this is a cheerfully entertaining take on cosmic horror, reminding me in part of Agent to the Stars in which John Scalzi takes a similarly irreverant line with UFO visitors. Great fun to read, no need to look for anything profound.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Not His best book but still worth the money
11 Aug 2011
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I'm a huge fan of the author's work, that being said I don't think this is his best work. I found it a bit boring in places and had to keep myself from skipping whole paragraphs to get to something more interesting. There is a lot a lot of good stuff in here as well though, I always enjoy his characters, written very well. I would recommend this book even though it's not his best its better than most.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Not his best work
25 July 2011
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I liked it enough that I dont regret buying it, but its definitely not his best work. Overall, the story felt like it lacked...importance? Like there wasnt alot of urgency, and the stuff that happened didnt matter much. There wasnt even a real antagonist. It was also kinda short. Over all, I would rate it above "a nameless witch" since it was an easy read, but thats about it.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Doesn't make much sense....correctly.
10 Jun 2011
Format:Hardcover
The world that this story is based in doesn't make much sense to the reader.
That's only right, since it doesn't make much sense to the people who live in this world either.
This world is one in which there are no sure and certain answers to much of anything, and even the questions can lack any real meaning.
This one is a little different than the other Martinez worlds, and it takes a little more effort by the reader to keep himself grounded.
However, the usual Martinez themes of decency, friendship, family, and humanity in what are very non-human worlds still hold strong.
All of his heroes are good people in tough situations, who don't allow the danger to erode their good qualities.
The Martinez sense of humor also holds true.
Who else is going to have his leading character meet a charging monster bent on eating her, with a rolled-up newspaper smack on the nose.
Martinez is very non-standard for an author in that of all his books, he hasn't written a looser.
He still hasn't.
That's only right, since it doesn't make much sense to the people who live in this world either.
This world is one in which there are no sure and certain answers to much of anything, and even the questions can lack any real meaning.
This one is a little different than the other Martinez worlds, and it takes a little more effort by the reader to keep himself grounded.
However, the usual Martinez themes of decency, friendship, family, and humanity in what are very non-human worlds still hold strong.
All of his heroes are good people in tough situations, who don't allow the danger to erode their good qualities.
The Martinez sense of humor also holds true.
Who else is going to have his leading character meet a charging monster bent on eating her, with a rolled-up newspaper smack on the nose.
Martinez is very non-standard for an author in that of all his books, he hasn't written a looser.
He still hasn't.
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