Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

Title: Good Omens
Author: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: Audiobook ~9hrs
Date read: April 2020

According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner.

So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon—both of whom have lived amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle—are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture.

And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .


I liked it well enough, but to be perfectly honest I didn't fall in love with the characters the way I did in the TV mini-series. But then it IS hard to live up to the charm of Michael Sheen and David Tennant and their amazing chemistry! ;-) The mini-series was incredibly true to the book though (although I was very surprised to see that a certain scene near the ending was missing from the book!!), and I did appreciate getting this second take on it.