Island of the Sequined Love Nun, Christopher Moore (3.5)
After reading this book, I was confused about the name.
There was an island, and there was a sequined priestess, but no love nun.
Rather odd. I’m still not sure the relevance of the use of ‘Nun’. This
priestess was definitely no nun! The protagonist of the story is a misfit young
man who loses his job flying the private jet of a Mary Kay type CEO and gets an
offer he can’t refuse – from a missionary Dr. on a almost deserted island in
Micronesia. Little does he know, the Dr. and his wife are known to the natives
as the Sorcerer and High Priestess, whom they follow in a made-up cult
fashion…. and that’s not the crazy part!
In typical Christopher Moore fashion, there is magic (a ghost and
talking bat), sex (men may not to read the part about how he loses his job as
it involves sex and a painful experience with the flap actuator lever),
craziness (cannibals and a talking bat!) and lots of irreverent humor. I
laughed a lot and enjoyed this book, though it was not quite up to ‘Bite Me’ or
‘Lamb’, two of his classics.
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