Lost: Anti-Christ. If Found: Return to Satan...

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.

I first picked up this book as an incentive to read it before the up and coming Amazon Prime series, starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen. I've always been a fan of the works of both authors so another televised opportunity to see a world come to life hooked me in. I loved the way in which the novel progressed with hilarious dialogue and characters that are so different getting thrust together. 

The story is about the build up to the end of the world. With many characters unique perspectives and roles that revolve around the apocalypse drawn out over the course of the novel. With witches and witch-finder generals thrown in, the story takes on a collective of people all living their lives so differently until their paths happen to cross. The two main characters are an angel, Aziraphale and a demon, Crowley who have a unique companionship that developed from the start of creation. They both balance each others deeds on humanity and create a hilarious friendship between what we perceive as pure opposites... in this case Good and Evil.

Upon the news of the birth of the new Anti-Christ, Crowley is instructed to make sure that the baby is as prophesied and that the parents are truly in favour of the king of Hell himself, along with the help of some satanic nuns in the middle of the countryside he and two other babies are born on the same night... Chaos ensues once years pass and the child they believed to be the Anti-Christ is definitely not the Anti-Christ and he appears to be missing.

I think the best part of this book is the fact that no matter what year you're reading it in, it applies to the moment, with only small pop culture references that can't carry over as time moves on. I was shocked to find it was originally published in 1990 when so much of its cynicism and digs at the way in which humanity works can apply to 2019. Especially with the four horsemen/woman of the apocalypse's influences over the world. Famine, a celebrity diet star, with a range of slimming ready meals and products that leave you wanting more but never gaining more. Pestilence, now dubbed Pollution as the rise in emissions affects the world we live in. War, a woman everybody finds themselves fighting over. Finally, the never changing Death who exists everywhere and can at anytime appear, a whisper on the wind, the most revered and oldest horseman.


May your next book be found,

Kif