A review by elusivity
Envy of Angels by Matt Wallace
2.0
2.5 STARS
A very, very quick read.
Two line cooks are hired to work at a restaurant to caters to the mystical and "hidden" creatures of the world.
In a magical twist upon what typically happens in real life--i.e. some slick corporate type tricking the original mom-and-pop owner into some shady franchise deal--an evil genie tricked the original creator by making his chicken giant, spewing out nuggets from her butthole, tended to by zombie clowns. Ok. They rescue the original owner, trick the genie by making it mortal then frying him, and gets the recipe.
They replicate the angel flesh. All the demons eat it with pleasure, except the eldest demon, who tastes the ruse. Shortly thereafter, the eldest demon is wacked by choking on a chicken bone, courtesy of the stray dog adopted just a day ago, whose collar said DOG. The dog also frees the angel. Turns out, its collar doesn't say DOG, but actually GOD. So, uh. God saves the day. Deus ex machina, har har. The end.
Fun fact: Christian Siriano gets a mention, ha! I remember him from Project Runway; how cool that he really made it big in the decade following.
Fun fact 2 (or maybe, just derivative and cheesy): one of the servers is based on Quicksilver. Specifically, X-Men movie version of Quicksilver, who strolls into the fray wearing earphones, dodging, weaving, doing that thing where he drinks from a goblet and casually tosses it to smash into a demon's face.
Giant nit-pick: A CHICKEN DOES NOT REQUIRE A ROOSTER IN ORDER TO LAY EGGS!! What a silly thing to hinge a major-ish plot point on.
I've never been a particular fan of this type of humorous series. Every character is one-dimensional, every interaction shallow, every conversation straightforward and serves only to advance plot. There's a facile, offhand quality to everything that kills all possibility of tension.
A decent read if you wish to switch off your brain, I suppose.
A very, very quick read.
Two line cooks are hired to work at a restaurant to caters to the mystical and "hidden" creatures of the world.
Spoiler
The restaurant caters for the government's diplomatic services with magical folk and monsters. This time, two demon tribes will hold a banquet to settle a war, and wishes to cook an angel. The two newbies and some other folk absolutely cannot stomach this, and so decide to substitute angel meat with something that tastes similar. The angel allows them to take its hand. Result, angel apparently taste like chicken nuggets. They go to steal this world's McDonald's secret recipe.In a magical twist upon what typically happens in real life--i.e. some slick corporate type tricking the original mom-and-pop owner into some shady franchise deal--an evil genie tricked the original creator by making his chicken giant, spewing out nuggets from her butthole, tended to by zombie clowns. Ok. They rescue the original owner, trick the genie by making it mortal then frying him, and gets the recipe.
They replicate the angel flesh. All the demons eat it with pleasure, except the eldest demon, who tastes the ruse. Shortly thereafter, the eldest demon is wacked by choking on a chicken bone, courtesy of the stray dog adopted just a day ago, whose collar said DOG. The dog also frees the angel. Turns out, its collar doesn't say DOG, but actually GOD. So, uh. God saves the day. Deus ex machina, har har. The end.
Fun fact: Christian Siriano gets a mention, ha! I remember him from Project Runway; how cool that he really made it big in the decade following.
Fun fact 2 (or maybe, just derivative and cheesy): one of the servers is based on Quicksilver. Specifically, X-Men movie version of Quicksilver, who strolls into the fray wearing earphones, dodging, weaving, doing that thing where he drinks from a goblet and casually tosses it to smash into a demon's face.
Giant nit-pick: A CHICKEN DOES NOT REQUIRE A ROOSTER IN ORDER TO LAY EGGS!! What a silly thing to hinge a major-ish plot point on.
I've never been a particular fan of this type of humorous series. Every character is one-dimensional, every interaction shallow, every conversation straightforward and serves only to advance plot. There's a facile, offhand quality to everything that kills all possibility of tension.
A decent read if you wish to switch off your brain, I suppose.