If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe
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Jason Pargin
New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin’s hilarious and horrifying John Dies at the End series continues with If This Book Exists, You’re in the Wrong Universe."Pargin once again delights with scathing social commentary thinly disguised as an outrageous action novel...This is a feast."—Publishers Weekly "Within the snarky humor is an incisive commentary on social media and the state of our connected world, and a story about trauma and how people lash out when they’re hurt...This isn’t just a funny tale of inept supernatural investigators; it’s a story of people struggling through pain to find a better path. Pargin offers us a welcome note of hope." — BooklistIf the broken neon signs, shuttered storefronts, and sub-standard housing didn’t tip you off, you’ve just wandered into the city of “Undisclosed”. You don’t want to be caught dead here, because odds are you just might find yourself rising from the grave. That hasn’t stopped tourists from visiting to check out the unusual phenomena that hangs around our town like radioactive fallout. Interdimensional parasites feeding on human hosts, paranormal cults worshipping demonic entities, vengeful teenage sorcerers, we’ve got it all.Did I mention the possessed toy? It’s a plastic football-sized egg that’s supposed to hatch an adorable, colorful stuffed bird when a child “feeds” it through a synchronized smartphone app. What’s actually inside is an otherworldly monstrosity that’s enticing impressionable wayward youth into murdering folks and depositing their body parts inside the egg as if it’s a hungry piggy bank to trigger the end of the world.That’s where Dave, John, and Amy come in. They face supernatural threats so the rest of us don’t have to—and sometimes even earn a couple of bucks to so do. But between the bloody ritual sacrifices and soul-crushing nightmares, our trio realizes this apocalypse is way above their pay grade.
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Author
Jason Pargin
Pages
384
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Published Date
2022-10-18
ISBN
1250195845 9781250195845
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"Simultaneously one of the most bizarre and most entertaining books I’ve read in awhile. I was very amused by how I was having so much fun while simultaneously having very little idea what was going on! If you want a weird, funny read with a side of gore (it does get a bit bloody at times), then I recommend this. "
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"This book is a reminder: that this world has its darkness, but it is not evil; that no big boss battle is going to fix its wrongs; that some lovable dumbasses trying to be the people they wished they'd had can do more good than a thousand people pretending everything is going to be okay. Human problems require human solutions and, apparently, supernatural problems also require human solutions."