Eight Million Gods, Wen Spencer
Eight Million Gods, Wen Spencer
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Eight Million Gods

Author: Wen Spencer

Narrator: Hollie Jackson

Unabridged: 11 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/25/2020


Synopsis

On Saturday afternoon, Nikki Delany thought, "George Wilson, in the kitchen, with a blender." By dinner, she had killed George and posted his gory murder to her blog. The next day, she put on her mourning clothes and went out to meet her best friend for lunch to discuss finding a replacement for her love interest.

Nikki is a horror novelist. Her choice of career is dictated by an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder that forces her to write stories of death and destruction. She can't control it, doesn't understand it, but can use it to make money anywhere in the world. Currently "anywhere" is in Japan, hiding from her mother who sees Nikki's OCD as proof she's mentally unstable. Nikki's fragile peace starts to fall apart when the police arrest her for the murder of an American expatriate. Someone killed him with a blender.

Reality starts to unravel around Nikki. She's attacked by a raccoon in a business suit. After a series of blackouts, she’s accompanied by a boy that no one else can see, a boy who claims to be a god. Is she really being pursued by Japanese myths—or is she simply going insane?

Contains mature themes.

About Wen Spencer

Wen Spencer is a John W. Campbell Award-winning author of science fiction and fantasy. Several of her novels, including Alien Taste, Tinker, and A Brother's Price, have been translated and sold internationally in Europe, Japan, and Russia. After living in Pittsburgh and Boston, Spencer now resides in Hilo, Hawaii.


Reviews

Goodreads review by heidi

This book was equal parts delicious gaijin-in-Japan-whodunit, and madness-or-magic creepiness, and I thought the mix was really interesting. Nikki's mental illness and her experiences are vastly different when viewed through a different cultural filter, and it makes you think about how many things w......more

Goodreads review by David

Eight Million Gods reads like an otaku fangirl letting all her freak flags fly. A fan fiction writer heroine goes to Japan to escape an evil domineering bitch of a mother, becomes possessed by a cute Samurai boy kami, hauls a katana around Japan and gets in battles with gods and monsters, and winds......more

Goodreads review by Jo

I have mixed feeling about Eight Million Gods. I really like Wen Spencer’s writing. and Eight Million Gods is very well written. For me the problem is the setting and how it works into the story. Worldbuilding: Eight Million Gods is set in Japan where there are many, many shrines and gods. The intera......more