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Soul Enchilada by David Macinnis Gill
Title: Soul Enchilada
Author: David Macinnis Gill
Number of Pages: 368
Genre: Young Adult, urban fantasy
Book Number/Goal: 1/40
Rating: 3.5/5
Eunice "Bug" Smoot, 18 years old and living on her own, is about to get evicted from her crappy no-air-conditioning El Paso studio apartment, she's about to get fired from her pizza delivery job, and her car -- her beloved 1958 Cadillac -- is about to get repossessed.
By the devil.
When her grandfather, the late Papa C., signed away his soul for the car, Bug unknowingly cosigned. Now Mr. Beals -- yes, that's Beelzebub -- is coming after the car and her soul too. It's up to Bug and car wash manager Pesto -- who happens to work for the International Supernatural Immigration Service -- to get out of the deal before Old Scratch himself comes to collect on Halloween.
Bug carries the novel on the strength of her voice. She has an attitude and a way with a simile, and her narration is hilarious and touching by turns. Her tentative romance with Pesto is adorable. Not every plot thread or emotional thread is tied off as well as I would like, and the plot proceeds pretty much according to formula, but it's so much fun that I don't particularly care.
Author: David Macinnis Gill
Number of Pages: 368
Genre: Young Adult, urban fantasy
Book Number/Goal: 1/40
Rating: 3.5/5
Eunice "Bug" Smoot, 18 years old and living on her own, is about to get evicted from her crappy no-air-conditioning El Paso studio apartment, she's about to get fired from her pizza delivery job, and her car -- her beloved 1958 Cadillac -- is about to get repossessed.
By the devil.
When her grandfather, the late Papa C., signed away his soul for the car, Bug unknowingly cosigned. Now Mr. Beals -- yes, that's Beelzebub -- is coming after the car and her soul too. It's up to Bug and car wash manager Pesto -- who happens to work for the International Supernatural Immigration Service -- to get out of the deal before Old Scratch himself comes to collect on Halloween.
Bug carries the novel on the strength of her voice. She has an attitude and a way with a simile, and her narration is hilarious and touching by turns. Her tentative romance with Pesto is adorable. Not every plot thread or emotional thread is tied off as well as I would like, and the plot proceeds pretty much according to formula, but it's so much fun that I don't particularly care.
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