Pacy and engaging, this is a comic fantasy crammed with sharp and funny one-liners from the man who has previously come up with the memorably titled Island of the Sequined Love Nun and The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove. Dealing with the fallout from the angel's attempts to provide a festive miracle are a cop who has promised to stay off drugs if his sword-wielding lover will keep on taking hers, a Drugs Enforcement Administration pilot with a talking fruit bat, and a biologist with a penchant for mating rodents. 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 communit. Combine the boy's earnest wish that Santa return from the grave with the best intentions of the stupidest angel in all creation and this Christmas in Pine Cove is certainly going to be one to remember. When young Josh Barker witnesses Santa being murdered, or rather, when he sees evil developer Dale Pearson, playing the town's Santa in the Christmas parade, being dispatched by his ex-wife's shovel. P ine Cove is a sleepy Californian coastal village with more art galleries than gas stations, in which everyone drives an SUV.
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