Island of the Sequined Love Nun

You can tell by the title that I just finished reading another book by Christopher Moore, Island of the Sequined Love Nun.  The book was as outrageous as the title, although in all honestly I can’t think of any specific “sequined love nuns” who were part of the plot.  The book introduces the character of Tucker Case, a pilot whose career is all downhill after a visit to the “mile high club” causes him to crash a Lear jet.  Case ends up on an isolated island in the south Pacific, flying a plane for “missionaries” who don’t really have the best interests of their native flock at heart.  Or at kidney.  This was perhaps my favourite of all of Moore’s books I’ve read so far, and he did a nice job of researching life in the south Pacific and the history of how the area was affected by the presence of the American military in WWII.  He also introduced me to the concept of “cargo cults”,which I’d never heard of before.  So, a touch of the supernatural, a bit of history, a bit of blood and gore, some dead people, the fictional equivalent of Mary Kay, and Roberto, the talking fruit bat—just typical Christopher Moore.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 09/25 at 09:09 PM

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