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Not really suited for the easily offended. A noticeable abundance of dark humor and nasty jokes. Felt like a mixture of the 'Dead like me' tv series with the absurd 'Hitchhikers' humor, but without the sci-fi. Not his close ones, not Sophie, and certainly not him.Īn entertaining humorous novel, not great, but fairly enjoyable. The deadly dark powers of the Underworld are rising, and soon, no citizen in the city will be safe. The big book clearly warns it: Don't screw it up! But when people accidentally start dropping dead all around him, Charlie knows things are going to go south fast. It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it. Charlie Asher is a highly insecure owner of a modest second hand shop, has a little baby girl named Sophie, and now, he is a reluctant part time grim reaper. One day you are a parent trying hard to make things work, the next thing you know, you receive the big book of the dead and unwillingly become a taker of souls. But hey, somebody's gotta do it.It's hard enough to be a parent that you also have to be Death incarnate.

Yep, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. People start dropping dead around him, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird.

As Charlie prepares to go home after the birth, he sees a strange man dressed in mint-green at Rachel's hospital bedside - a man who claims that no one should be able to see him. And she, Rachel, is about to have their first child.īut normal service is about to be interrupted. He's married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normality. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a second-hand store with the help of a couple of loyal, if marginally insane, employees. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, more of a Beta than an Alpha Male. Chris Moore tackles death - make that Death - in his latest wonderful, whacked-out yarn.Ĭharlie Asher is a pretty normal guy.