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Christopher Moore: The Stupidest Angel (Hardcover, 2005, William Morrow) 3 stars

Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh …

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.