What if God was a Teenage boy? Well Bob is and things aren’t going so
well. He has his overworked assistant
Mr. B to fix his messes, but it’s beyond a full time job. Earth would be less chaotic if he had taken
more than 6 days to make it, but he got lazy.
Now he’s in love (well lust at least) with a perfect girl named Lucy and
that spells almost certain doom. When
Bob gets emotional, nature recoils. Hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and the
like replace sweaty palms and butterflies in the stomach, so Earth and Lucy may
not survive Bob’s raging emotions (hormones).
Right off the bat, this book will not be for
everyone. It is gleefully irreverent
(purposely unserious) and controversial.
It takes the creation stories of multiple cultures and religions, throws
them into a blender, and explains them as the whims of a not particular bright
or motivated teenage boy. So there’s
that. However, if that sounds like your
cup of tea, you are in for a deep, witty, and fully unique ride. The pure zaniness of the premise allow Rosoff
to look at literally all aspects of human life, emotion, goodness, pettiness,
and love though a universal and personal lens all at the same time. Between the outrageous humor there is a lot
of deep questions and insight. This is an inimitable book and anyone that wants
a truly hilarious and challenging read should pick it up.
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