Envy of Angels A Sin du Jour Affair

Matt Wallace — 2015

In New York, eating out can be hell. Everyone loves a well-catered event, and the supernatural community is no different, but where do demons go to satisfy their culinary cravings? Welcome to Sin du Jour - where devils on horseback are the clients, not the dish. PRAISE FOR ENVY OF ANGELS: "Matt Wallace tells a raucous, riotous tale of culinary madness - a jaw-dropping horror-fantasy restaurateur Thunderdome that makes the 'monkey brain' scene in Temple of Doom look like something you'd see on Nickelodeon. It's like I dropped a heroic dose of acid and turned on the Food Network for eight hours. It's funny and demented and sticks in you like a pinbone. Matt Wallace writes like someone just jammed a needle full of adrenaline in his heart - and then, in yours. From this point forward, I'll read anything this guy writes." — Chuck Wendig, author of Blackbirds and Zer0es "No one makes me think, 'Dammit, I should have thought of that!' like Matt Wallace. The Sin du Jour series is something I read with equal amounts of envy and delight." — Mur Lafferty, Campbell Award winning author of The Shambling Guide to New York City "Envy of Angels is one of the most original urban fantasies I've read in a damn long time. Angels, demons and the New York restaurant scene. It doesn't get any weirder than this. Matt Wallace is an author to watch." — Stephen Blackmoore, author of Dead Things and Broken Souls "Envy of Angels is exactly the breath of fresh air I didn't know I needed: darkly funny, sweepingly inventive, and just plain fun to read. Every time I thought I got the hang of this book, the next turn took me someplace even more breathtakingly weird and wonderful. Buy it. DO IT NOW. It's the only way we can force him to write a dozen more of these!" — Andrea Phillips, author of Revision

Reviews

Maggie Gordon@maggieg

Aug 13, 2022

Envy of Angels seems to be Matt Wallace's attempts at writing a Hell's Kitchen that had a more literal connection to hell. Darren and Lena are desperately looking for work when a chef who is supposed to be dead hires them as temporary staff. He has strange rules like they can't go into the pantry. Which, of course, they break and cause chaos. Sin du Jour isn't a normal kitchen. They cater for demons and the food they serve is... unusual. On the day that Darren and Lena were hired, a particularly special order came in... for angel. An angel is delivered to the staff, but they refuse to kill and cook it given, you know, angel. So the team has to figure out how to fool a bunch of demons, and their attempts lead them to encounters with genies and hellish chickens and rather sad clowns. It's a wild ride that's rather hilarious, creative, and the start to what looks like an excellent series!