I'm quickly becoming a big Christopher Moore fan. I read Lamb earlier this year and absolutely loved it. I've never laughed out loud so much while reading a novel. His sarcasm fit me perfectly.

Practical Demonkeeping is a great story, but you can tell that it is his first novel. My only issue with this book is the amount of characters he tries to fit into 243 pages. There were a couple of times when i had to go back for a quick glance to remind me of what certain characters reasons were for being there. But that is only a small issue because I love his imagination. He can take a simple town and turn it into a setting for a raving Demon bent on world domination.

Reading a first novel by someone who is now an accomplished author makes the writer in me want to give it a go. Christopher Moore reminds me that writing is about creating a world that is all your own, with no rules and nothing holding you back except the breadth of your own imagination. I thank him for that. He may have just lit a fire under my ass.