Secondhand Souls, Christopher Moore
Secondhand Souls, Christopher Moore
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Secondhand Souls
A Novel

Author: Christopher Moore

Narrator: Fisher Stevens

Unabridged: 10 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 08/25/2015

Synopsis

In San Francisco, the souls of the dead are mysteriously disappearing—and you know that can’t be good—in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore’s delightfully funny sequel to A Dirty Job.Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. People are dying, but their souls are not being collected. Someone—or something—is stealing them and no one knows where they are going, or why, but it has something to do with that big orange bridge. Death Merchant Charlie Asher is just as flummoxed as everyone else. He’s trapped in the body of a fourteen-inch-tall “meat puppet” waiting for his Buddhist nun girlfriend, Audrey, to find him a suitable new body to play host.To get to the bottom of this abomination, a motley crew of heroes will band together: the seven-foot-tall death merchant Minty Fresh; retired policeman turned bookseller Alphonse Rivera; the Emperor of San Francisco and his dogs, Bummer and Lazarus; and Lily, the former Goth girl. Now if only they can get little Sophie to stop babbling about the coming battle for the very soul of humankind . . .

About Christopher Moore

Christopher Moore is a literary mischief-maker, delighting readers with his signature blend of satire, absurdity, and heart. With a career spanning over three decades, he's the mind behind cult classics like Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Practical Demonkeeping, and A Dirty Job. Moore's novels often straddle the line between the sacred and the profane, delivering laugh-out-loud moments alongside surprisingly profound insights. Hailing from Toledo, Ohio, and having dabbled in everything from rock band roadie to insurance broker, he brings a unique everyman charm to his fantastical tales. When he's not writing, Moore splits his time between exploring quirky small towns and tormenting his social media followers with puns.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Federico on January 30, 2024

A bridge full of unclaimed souls, and a powerful Lemon threatening the world. Absurdity at its finest. A few years after Charlie's noble sacrifice, and the death of many other death merchants, uncollected souls keep pilling up, unable to re-enter the cycle of life. These lost souls unbalance an al......more

Goodreads review by Gail on June 22, 2015

Since I became a widow five years ago, death has been no laughing matter...unless I'm reading Christopher Moore's take on it and then I snicker, giggle, laugh out loud and snort once or twice. If you have a sense of humor, or even if you don't, Secondhand Souls is a marvelous read that is the best o......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on July 08, 2017

Want Banshees? Want rodent people possessed by the souls of the dead? Want a list of heroes including a goth chick, a Buddhist monk, a police detective, a two foot tall alligator-mutant with a foot long . . . well . . . you know, and a guy straight out of 70s blaxsploitation films named Minty Fresh? M......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on November 21, 2021

3.5 stars This comic novel is the sequel to "A Dirty Job." As the story opens Charlie Asher - enemy of the forces of darkness who was killed in the last book - now inhabits a makeshift foot-high body made of mismatched animal parts and luncheon meats. Charlie and the other 'Death Merchants' of San F......more

Goodreads review by colleen the convivial curmudgeon on October 03, 2015

A Dirty Job was one of my first Moore books, and also my favorite, so I was excited to find out there was a sequel in the works, and when I saw my library had it, I just had to get it. So it's with some level of disappointment that I must report that I didn't really like it all that much. One of the b......more

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