My rating: 3.5 of 5 starsThousands of years ago, God decided to destroy the Earth and all who resided on it. Fortunately, us pesky mortals are pretty good survivalists and we didn’t all perish as was intended. This time, God sends an angel named Qaphsiel to Earth with a special box that would take the rest of us out for good. Except all didn’t go as planned. Qaphsiel lost the box. “So, you’re the angel of Death?” The angel shook his head, a little embarrassed. “I don’t have that honor. In Heav...

Very silly, but an enjoyable read:)

I love every book that Kadrey has published, this one included. If you are a fan of humor, the supernatural and satire; and not easily offended by colorful language and risqué subject matter, you will love it. If Neil Gaiman, Jim Butcher, Terry Pratchett & Stephen King had book babies together, Kadrey's books would be their spawn! The Everything Box is awesome!

Most excellently fun! The Everything Box is a caper novel in the grand tradition. Coop is a professional thief who's good at his job, until a heist goes wrong--there was a dragon. And imps.--and lands him in prison. A secret government agency offers him freedom in exchange for the theft of a small box. But it will mean working with his ex. And there's more than one group who want the box to bring about the Apocalypse. What could go wrong?This supernatural caper novel has it all: action, romance,...

Ok series about magic-resistant thief Charlie Cooper and the Department of Peculiar Science.

📦 Doomsday Boxes FTW Buddy Read (DBFTWBR™) with the MacHalos and stuff 📦So. The present heart-warming tale of compassion and benevolence is about a guy called Coop. Coop is a Magic Thingies Thief (MTT™) who specializes in stealing, um, you know, magic thingies and stuff, and just got out of jail and stuff (not with the help of a Monopoly card, in case you were wondering). And what do self-respecting MTTs™ who just got of jail do? Why get right back on the horse shrimp and start planning Slightly...

This is just a fun book. It is full of snappy dialogue, strange characters and absolute chaos. It moves along at a really good pace and doesn't drag anything out. I found it similar to most Christopher Moore books. It was a great distraction to dive into

2 Stars The Everything Box simply was not my cup of tea. I am a huge fan of Richard Kadrey and I cannot get enough of his Sandman Slim series. I absolutely consider him one of my favorite authors. This book was not a Sandman Slim novel. It is supposed to be funny and at times it is, but there is simply too much ridiculousness going on to ever focus on one thing.I did not like it.Oh well, I love the author and can't recommend his Sandman Slim series enough.

This book was boring and incredibly poorly written. We are immediately flung into a world full of jargon that won't get explained, and a rotating cast of characters that already know each other and won't bother growing together or showing why we should care about them.There are at least 5 groups of poorly realized characters all looking for a MaCguffin. The story never gets advanced. We never get anywhere. I was expecting a Men in Black type situation. Where not only do we learn about the world

Just a touch biased, as I was the editor for this book...But that just means that I loved it in the first place. I'll be up front: humorous writing is hard. Humorous sci-fi and fantasy is probably even harder, because you're always up against the comps of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett (talk about big shoes to fill!). There are so few writers able to do it and do it well, and one of them--Christopher Moore--has said that Richard Kadrey is about to join that group.I guess for me, I just got su...

3.5 starsA book that begins with an angel losing his box containing the power to end the world is off to a great start. Watching the box gain epic proportions and many suitors 4000 years later - now the modern world we know and yet know nothing of - is a plot no less worthy of a start like that. Add to it elements of fantasy that the author doesn't spend pages building but allows to become clearer as the story progresses; and humour that ensures a constant smile on your face that often even brea...

A really enjoyable read. Fast paced, clever, amusing, and hopefully the start of a great new series from Kadrey.While the gist of the world in which The Everything Box takes place is similar to Kadrey's Sandman Slim books -- there is magic in the world as well as magical creatures, God and angels, all powerful devices, etc. etc. -- the general feel of the world in which it takes place is a little lighter, a little brighter. In the Sandman books, the reader sees the world through Slim's eyes, and...

Apocalyptically Funny.This book can best be summed up in four words: Green Folders and Boxes.In a world where creatures and beings of every corner of people's nightmares exist in the shadows of society, there was a time when the world was going to be destroyed, but the one who was given the task, an angel, not only "misplaces" the object of destruction on Earth, but has been trying to find it with a broken celestial map for the past four thousand years.Basically, the story follows Coop, a "profe...

It definitely had that comic rhythm, comedy of errors, that's reminiscent of Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch or Bloodsucking Fiends or almost any Christopher Moore. It had the similar dark wit, buffoonish characters interspersed with somewhat more serious characters, the feeling of things rapidly spinning out of control. But the comparison is all good, not intended to imply that its derivative. Or are we saying that no one else can write a darkly funny urban f...

This book had the potential to be one of my favorite books. Sadly it failed to use the potential and became what I can only describe as a repetitive book. The book shifts between heists that could have been much more epic, to the main character being kidnapped, to planning the heist and then another heist another kidnapping and so on and so forth. The characters felt flat and while it was a bit of a page turner it's not one I would recommend.

I thought this book was okay times, but suffered from too many characters and too much chaos. I like his Sandman Slim series much better, perhaps because I understand the characters better and edgier. The comparisons to Christopher Moore's humor should have been taken more seriously, at least by me. Thank goodness, a new Sandman Slim book, The Perdition Score, is coming soon.

will read the next title...likes but didnt love love this book

This is a book I would have loved so much more had it been from another author. That, I guess is one of the problems of success. Richard Kadrey is the author of the Sandman Slim series, another kind of urban fantasy with a much harder edge. Had I just found The Everything Box in a vacuum, without the surrounding atmosphere of expectations I would have given in to its charms and been a new fan. So really my complaint is that this book is different from the Sandman Slim books but not different eno...

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I owe every book to which I have award 1 Star, an apology. You HAD to be better than this.This book is a muddled collection of about 100 characters. The helpful thing is you don't have to remember any of them - all of the characters are the exact same. Remember those memes about how sarcasm is a tool of the less intelligent? Welcome to this book. It is a poorly conceived collection of boringly sarcastic remarks that barely serve to form a coherent conversation and certainly are not capable of pr...