The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

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English language

Published Jan. 5, 2004 by HarperCollins.

ISBN:
978-0-06-074616-2
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3 stars (30 reviews)

Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe.'Twas the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas, and all through the tiny community of Pine Cove, California, people are busy buying, wrapping, packing, and generally getting into the holiday spirit. It is the hap-hap-happiest time of the year, after all.But not everybody is feeling the joy. Little Joshua Barker is in desperate need of a holiday miracle. No, he's not on his deathbed; no, his dog hasn't run away from home. But Josh is sure that he saw Santa take a shovel to the head, and now the seven-year-old has only one prayer: Please, Santa, come back from the dead.But hold on! There's an angel waiting in the wings. (Wings, get it?) It's none other than …

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Review of 'The stupidest angel' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

A wildly funny and irreverent romp through a small town in coastal California during Christmas. Not your typical Christmas fare that's for sure. I won't say more to avoid spoilers but if you have a dark sense of humor and need a break from typical Hallmark movie Christmas fare this is the book for you!

Review of 'The Stupidest Angel' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

Not Moore's best. Certainly an original idea but flat execution, flat characters, and an all-time disappointing ending. The dialog between the dead characters feels more human than that between the live ones. And the ending! I was expecting a literal Deus ex Machina, but it wasn't even that. It was a half-assed hand-wavey there-I-fixed-it that annulled the whole story, the growth and change and redemption in the few characters I cared about.

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