His constant bemusement and great great silliness comes off as cute, endearing and immensely amusing to me. The main character feels very real, even though everyone is rather cartoonishly over-done (despite this, there is a strong sense of realism even when the characters are all rather overdone). I’ve seen books that put mundane people in fantastic abilities and situations, but rarely ones that do it as well as this. Or he can drop illegal fireworks on them, or fight them with his ultra-nerdy sword-cane, whatever works :)Īnd if push comes to shove, you’d be amazed what his daughter can do.īut something isn’t going right, something’s screwing up – and for once it isn’t Charlie Asher – and the underworld is raising its ugly head above ground And if he doesn’t then the forces of the underworld will rise up and unleash horror on the world. He finds souls from the recently deceased imbued in objects and passes them on to new people to learn and grow. Burdened with an over-active imagination he fumbles merrily through life in an erratic, silly and endearing fashion.Īnd he collects souls. Charlie Asher is a beta male, unassuming, snarky, wildly amusing second hand shop owner in San Francisco. It’s tasty and wonderful but you keep getting majorly unpleasant electric shocks that ruin the whole experience. Reading this book is like eating a big rich chocolate cake – that’s attached to the mains supply.
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