It’s Tuesday and god has come back to earth. This all seems very well and good but Sam Dalton could really do without the anxiety – there are a lot of jobs to do and his garden is finally being sorted.
As god makes his presence felt, sending the world and Sam’s mum into a panic, life begins to do the one thing our homebody hero really doesn’t change.
With the media, governments, and the local townspeople forced to adapt to the return of biblical shock and awe, is Sam able to survive the peril and keep his utter sham of a life together?
On a perfectly normal Tuesday, small g God appears in a middle Eastern desert. (He is explicitly the Old Testament, Judaean god, but narration consistently refers to Him with a small g.) He appears ready to continue where the Old Testament left off, smiting Egypt and urging the Jews to annihilate Palestine, among other fairly horrific things. Sam, our almost-definitely autistic English 'hero', just wants things to be normal again.
Although it's a clever idea, and the blurb only covers half of it, there's a whole other section after the God stuff, I didn't like the writing style - a lot of the action is conveyed in dialogue rather than description, conversations don't have speech tags so it's hard to know who's talking, and things keep happening like people starting phone conversations without us, the readers, being told a phone was ringing. Which sounds like a small thing, but got very irritating over the length of the novel.
Aaron clearly has a great imagination and he came up with some very clever things here, but the style just wasn't for me. I hope the book reaches readers who will appreciate it better than I did.
Ohmigod! is available now. I received a free copy and am giving an honest review.
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