Author:Rob Thurman
'There are monsters among us. There always have been and there always will be. I've know that since I can remember, just like I've always known that I was one . . . Well, half of one anyway.'
Cal Leandros is 19. He eats junk food, he doesn't clean up after himself and fights with his half brother Niko. It's a fairly normal life, but for the fact that Cal and Niko are constantly on the run. Cal's father has been after him for the last four years. And given that he's a monster whose dark lineage is the stuff of nightmares they really don't want him and his entire otherworldly race catching up with them. But Cal is about to learn why they want him, why they've always wanted him - he is the key to unleashing their hell on earth.
Meanwhile the bright lights of the Big Apple shine on, oblivious to the fact that the fate of the human world will be decided in the fight of Cal and Niko's lives . . .
Breathless, colourful, hilarious and honest; the dialogue is sitcom-snappy and the opening scenes in Oxford Street positively Joycean
—— Wendy Holden , Daily MailSo kindly and funny and affectionate that you could probably warm your hands on it. Miraculously, this is a feel-good story that manages not to be saccharine. There are a great many good jokes here . . . but concealed amid the fun, like silver coins in a Christmas pudding, is a serious theme. This is a book you could safely give to practically anyone. Snap up plenty of copies to hand around under the tree
—— SpectatorI loved Comfort and Joy, a hilarious, bawdy yet touching portrait of Christmas over three years
—— Jilly Cooper , Guardian Books of the YearFabulous. Laugh-out-loud funny, moving and as cuddly as Santa Claus, this is perfect for snuggling up with over the Christmas holidays
—— CosmopolitanTouching...it will make you laugh, maybe make you cry and keep you reading past bedtime
—— Lauren Laverne , GraziaA wickedly funny, painfully honest look at families, festivities and romantic love
—— Marie ClaireTender, tough, schmaltzy, witty and heart-warming all at once. Knight has a great comic touch - there are some wonderfully rude bits and a fantastic rant about the ridiculous expectations piled on 21st-century women to be perfect - and writes with a deceptive lightness. At the heart of this funny, affectionate novel is an acknowledgement that families, like love, come in odd shapes and sizes, and that both matter more than anything
—— MetroWitty enough to make you laugh out loud, but there are moments of real emotion that keep the book from being too light
—— PsychologiesA superb ear for dialogue...wonderfully comic
—— Evening StandardRiotously high in laughs and glamour. I defy a festive grump not to be cheered by it
—— Independent Books of the YearFast-paced and funny
—— Women & HomeInfluenced by magical realism and the cool prose of modernism, first-time author Chloe Aridjis takes the best from each
—— Alastair Mabbott , Herald
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