Finished Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. I bought this book for Wheezley a while back (he’s loves Gaiman and Pratchett), and he gave it to me to read.

This one’s about the demon Crowley and the angel Aziraphale, who team up to stop the end of the world. That’s really all I can say in the way of plot summary, because there are so many characters doing so many different things in this book. You’ve got the four horsemen, a young witch, a ragtag bunch of kids, a witchfinder, demons and more.

Gaiman and Pratchett may have written this book together, but it seemed like much more of a Pratchett book to me. It definitely had his brand of mad-cap, zany humor and kooky characters doing kooky things. This could easily have been one of Pratchett’s Discworld novels. If you’d told me Gaiman wrote this, I would have been surprised. It’s pretty far afield from the seriousness of Gaiman in something like American Gods.

All that aside, there’s a lot to like about Good Omens. Crowley and Aziraphale are a hoot and are often compared to spies who have more in common with each other than they do with their superiors. Plus, there are a lot of funny gags and clever lines throughout the book.

The book dragged a bit in the middle, as the focus shifted from Crowley and Aziraphale to other characters, including 11-year-old Adam Young, aka the Antichrist. To me, Crowley and Aziraphale were much more interesting and entertaining than Adam and his friends. I also thought the ending was a little weak in that the world didn’t end just because Adam decided he didn’t want it to. That was a bit of a letdown.

But overall, this is a fun fantasy read. Pratchett fans will especially like it. Thumbs up.

Up next: Something from the TBR pile.

Books in my TBR pile: About 12.