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Serious Moonlight (How to be Dead) by Dave Turner

CORRECTION: I said in an earlier version of this review that this book was last in the series. I am overjoyed to learn that it’s not.

Publication Date: December 31, 2018

Dave Marwood and his girlfriend, Melanie, are due for a bit of a break in the country after saving the City of London from destruction. It’s a bit of a worry that Death, the last standing Horseman of the Apocalypse and Dave’s employer, is having a bit of an existential crisis and Dave has been acting as his flip-flopped toy scythed stand-in, but a relationship needs tending. The break, however; is not the peaceful time away the couple anticipates when they find themselves beset by ghosts and the people seeking them.

Serious Moonlight by Dave Turner is the fifth book in the How to be Dead series.

Part of my life’s work is finding books that give me the feeling I got when I first read the works of Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and Jasper Fforde. The beautiful humor and massive creativity of the aforementioned authors are qualities shared by the great Dave Turner. Continue reading Serious Moonlight (How to be Dead) by Dave Turner

Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Science Fiction, Serial Fiction

Dave Turner, Douglas Adams, four horseman, Ghosts, Halloween2020, How to be dead, Humor, Jasper Fforde, serious moonlight, Terry Pratchett

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Publication Date: May 1, 2009

In The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, it’s 1985 in the fictional world that is parallel to our own. Someone is kidnapping literary characters. It’s the job of Thursday Next, the occupant of our world but the detective in the Literary Detective Division, to find the culprit and stop them before it’s too late.

Every book claims to be like the work of a bestselling author. They’ll up the ante saying that the work is by an author who is the modern version of the author to whom they’re likened. Usually, they could not be less like the author whose name they use to promote themselves. In the case of Fforde, it would be in no way inaccurate to liken him to Douglas Adams. It would also not be inaccurate to say that they are nothing alike. Fforde and Adams share a well-defined imagination with a lightness of being. Their worlds are intricate. Fforde is extremely well-read. The characters created by others in his story are wholly within character. The description of the fictional world is beautiful and complete. Continue reading The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Science Fiction

Douglas Adams, Humor, Jasper Fforde, literary, Terry Pratchett, Time Travel

The Dalai Camel: A Bizarre Tale of UnBEARable Bliss & Bewilderment by C.E. Rachlin

Publication Date: February 8, 2018

The Dalai Camel by C.E. Rachlin is the story of a being reincarnated as a camel and searching for enlightenment. The Dalai Camel crossed oceans and continents facing adversity with his band of companions and is shares his story with the world. Continue reading The Dalai Camel: A Bizarre Tale of UnBEARable Bliss & Bewilderment by C.E. Rachlin

Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Fiction Reviews, Humor, Satire

Buddism, C.E. Rachlin, Douglas Adams, Jasper Fforde, Monty Python, Terry Pratchett

Four Horsemen (How to be Dead Book 4) by Dave Turner

Publication Date: January 16, 2018

In Four Horsemen (How to be Dead Book 4) by Dave Turner, It’s 1874 and War, Famine, Conquest and Death are called upon to find a little boy from a prominent family. The boy is seen leaving his home with his father, a man who has been dead for three years. In the meantime, Death is doing his day job when he comes across a little girl named Elizabeth that can see him as he’s collecting her aunt and bringing her home. Can the Horseman find out what happened to the boy and the other children who have disappeared and what will they do about Elizabeth? Continue reading Four Horsemen (How to be Dead Book 4) by Dave Turner

Adventure, Fantasy, Fiction Reviews, Humor, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Serial Fiction

Dave Turner, Douglas Adams, How to be Dead Series, Jasper Fforde, Old Haunts, Terry Pratchett

Nica of Los Angeles by Sue Perry

Publication Date: September 5, 2014

In Nica of Los Angeles by Sue Perry, Nica is something of a former transient looking to settle into the job of a private eye. When she accepts a case that takes her into a new dimension, she finds that with everything sentient, everything is a danger. As she becomes familiar with the world, Nica starts to understand its true power and the impact the parallel world could have on her cases in the real world and how in danger everyone in that world may be.

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Fiction Reviews, Mystery, Serial Fiction

classic noir mystery, Jasper Fforde, parallel worlds, Sue Perry

Free e-book download on Amazon: Intergalactic Terrorist (Book One) by J.F. Monahan

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Charlie Pinwright is the most forgettable man on earth. As a child, his mother frequently picked the wrong boy up from school simply forgetting his face. After losing his girlfriend to a Spanish cake decorator, losing his job and being forced to share his flat with another family (the landlord leased the bedroom simply forgetting that Charlie was there), Charlie is kidnapped by an alien bounty hunter. Charlie soon finds out that the continuation of existence as we know (and don’t know) it may rest on his shoulders. Can one forgettable man save the galaxy?

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Comedy, First Time Authors, Humor, Science Fiction, Serial Fiction, Specials

Dougals Adams, Ford Forkum, FREE EBOOK, Jasper Fforde, Joseph Monahan. first-time author

How to be Dead by Dave Turner

Publication Date: December 1, 2013

In How to be Dead by Dave Turner, Dave Marwood is pretending he has a life. He goes to work, pines for his co-worker, goes home and … repeats. His life is the same, day after same day. When Dave has a near Death experience, Death offers him a job and a way out of his day-to-day life. Will Dave continue on his path of stagnant existence or go where few men had gone before and lived to tell the tale?

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Fantasy, Fiction Reviews, First Time Authors, Horror, Serial Fiction

Dave Turner, Douglas Adams, Ford Forkum, Ghosts, How to be Dead Series, Jasper Fforde

Endangered Creatures by Stephen Dunkley

Publication Date: November 25, 2013

What if we don’t know all that is out there? What if there are things that have always just been beyond our comprehension? In Endangered Creatures by Stephen Dunkley, only a few people know of the continued existence of dragons. One of those people is Connor Bradley whose job it is to relocate waste. Connor is about to get the surprise of his life when he meets the planet’s biggest conservationists.

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Fantasy, Fiction Reviews, Serial Fiction

Douglas Adams, Dragons, Humor, Jasper Fforde, Stephen Dunkley

Beers in Heaven by Ford Forkum

Publication Date: September 27, 2013

Zach Preston arrives in Heaven after a relatively short life to find his memories gone and a need to regain his memories and readjust through Heaven’s orientation process. Seems Heaven is not as perfect it’s cracked up to be. Zach must adjust to his new life and learn the secrets of enlightenment.