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A review by nancyotoole
The Audacity by Laura Carmen Loup
4.0
In this wacky sci-fi comedy, May, a waitress, finds herself abducted by aliens and forced into space faring food service. When she sees a chance at escape, she jumps on it, but things don't go according to plan. Now a passenger aboard the rocket ship The Audacity, alongside an alien with a longstanding I Love Lucy obsession, May needs to find a way to pay the bills, and rescue planet earth from a chaos Goddess with an expansive tooth collection.
Comedy is a tricky thing to accomplish in fiction, unlike a visual or auditory media where so much can be accomplished by things like delivery, timing, and chemistry between the actors. But while I admittedly didn’t spend the entirety of this book laughing out loud, it often left me with a smile, and I overall had a lot of fun.
A lot of the humor here depends on the absurd, which the author delivers in spades. It’s also much more than a joke machine, as I found myself getting surprising attached to both May and Xan, as I followed them on their adventures. The secondary characters didn’t always grab me as much. August and XI’s adventures were fun, but the more earth-bound stuff didn’t always work for me. The book also contains a nice amount of LGBTQ rep.
I feel like I came across this fun and lighthearted book at just the right time and would happily read more by the author, Laura Loup.
Comedy is a tricky thing to accomplish in fiction, unlike a visual or auditory media where so much can be accomplished by things like delivery, timing, and chemistry between the actors. But while I admittedly didn’t spend the entirety of this book laughing out loud, it often left me with a smile, and I overall had a lot of fun.
A lot of the humor here depends on the absurd, which the author delivers in spades. It’s also much more than a joke machine, as I found myself getting surprising attached to both May and Xan, as I followed them on their adventures. The secondary characters didn’t always grab me as much. August and XI’s adventures were fun, but the more earth-bound stuff didn’t always work for me. The book also contains a nice amount of LGBTQ rep.
I feel like I came across this fun and lighthearted book at just the right time and would happily read more by the author, Laura Loup.