Name: Didi Chanoch's review of The Everything Box by Richard Kadrey
Item: The Everything Box
Rating: 4
Author: Didi Chanoch

Richard Kadrey

Reminiscent of the edgy, offbeat humor of Chris Moore and Matt Ruff, the first entry in a whimsical, fast-paced supernatural series from the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim novels—a dark and humorous story involving a doomsday gizmo, a horde of baddies determined to possess its power, and a clever thief who must steal it back . . . again and again. 22000 B.C. A beautiful, ambitious angel stands on a mountaintop, surveying the world and its little inhabitants below. He smiles because soon, the last of humanity who survived the great flood will meet its end, too. And he should know. He’s going to play a big part in it. Our angel usually doesn’t get to do field work, and if he does well, he’s certain he’ll get a big promotion. And now it’s time . . . . The angel reaches into his pocket for the instrument of humanity’s doom. Must be in the other pocket. Then he frantically begins to pat himself down. Dejected, he realizes he has lost the object. Looking over the Earth at all that could have been, the majestic angel utters a single word. “Crap.” 2015. A thief named Coop—a specialist in purloining magic objects—steals and delivers a small box to the mysterious client who engaged his services. Coop doesn’t know that his latest job could be the end of him—and the rest of the world. Suddenly he finds himself in the company of The Department of Peculiar Science, a fearsome enforcement agency that polices the odd and strange. The box isn’t just a supernatural heirloom with quaint powers, they tell him. It’s a doomsday device. They think . . . And suddenly, everyone is out to get it.

A Novel

The Everything Box

Courtney 

Didi Chanoch

If you're familiar with Kadrey's Sandman Slim series, it's fairly easy to explain what you're going to get here. It's familiar, but with the grim and dark trauma dialed down, and the funny dialed up. 

Coop is a thief, specifically, the kind of thief that works the magical underbelly of LA crime (yup, Sandman Slim fans, we're still in LA). His girlfriend dumped him, he lost his mojo, gets arrested (this is a very mild spoiler, as it happens early) and his release is arranged so he can steal a box. 

What box? The one an angel lost about 4,000 years ago, when he was supposed to open it and end the world. Oooops. 

Many, many people and beings want this box, although most of them don't really know its purpose. Those people include doomsday cults, mobsters, supernatural beings, and the LA police's Department of Peculiar Science, DOPS. Don't call them dopes. They don't like that.

Hijinks ensue. Many of them are funny, some of them are thrilling, and it all leads to a comic version of an epic showdown in LA's magic, vampire and werewolf neighborhood. 

This book was super fun. As I previously mentioned, it will definitely remind you of Sandman Slim, in a variety of ways. If you don't read Sandman Slim because of the grimdark of it all, this should definitely be fun for you. If you like Sandman Slim, well, you probably already have it. Have fun!

Dee B. 

Actually 3.5 stars. ..in depth review to come www.ithinkihaveaproblem.webs.com

Ley Stanton

this book was such a riot. i need to buy a copy just to highlight all my fav quotes.

Anastaciya

Ah, let it be 3.5 rounded up to 4...
It was a good laugh.

Enfys J. Book

Loved it. Dark humor, urban fantasy with an anti-hero and a ton of heist scenes.

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