I know. I wouldn't think I'd read a book with a cover like this either. Alas.
To be completely fair, I didn't actually read this book - I listened to it. (Ah, the joys of the UNC library collection of audiobooks!) And despite the overarching theme of the supernatural, I found it pretty interesting. I'll go ahead and get to its main premise:
Charlie Asher is our main character; a new father and erratic secondhand store owner living in San Francisco. After a series of strange events, most of them involving death, Charlie finds out that he has fell upon a new job position: Death merchant.
This information is passed onto Charlie by a strange, tall, black man wearing a mint green jacket. Asher learns that this man (interestly named "Minty Fresh") is also a death merchant. Minty essentially becomes Charlie's mentor, explaining both their responsibilities and the consequences of not finishing every assignment. A "death merchant" is basically somone who must find artifacts containing people's souls (they glow red, which is how they are recognized) so that the nearly deceased can pass on to the next life (death) without falling into the hands of "the darkness". If said souls are not found in time, bad things happen. Really bad things. Make sense?
I think that if I had actually tried to read this - and I mean really read it, not listened to - I probably wouldn't have finished it. But that's only because I'm not a particularly big fan of supernatural literature. If there is such a thing.
Despite all that, I still enjoyed listening to Moore's macabre novel as I made photo copies and opened mail during work . Audiobooks are really a wonderful thing. So are mp3 players. I highly recommend the two together.
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