The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse - Robert Rankin

Having recently picked up a couple of Pratchetts in a bid to escape my usual genre of grisly, gruesome murder thrillers, I decided to give Robert Rankin a go having read the Armageddon The Musical trilogy some years ago. The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse couldn't be farther away from this earlier set of novels. A dark pastiche of detective penny dreadfuls, nursery rhymes and cuddly stuffed toys, this novel works on many levels and, once you get past the first chapter, really draws you into it's world. Jack leaves his village headed for the city to make his fortune. Unfortunately when he gets there, Jack discovers that the city is ...

So there we have it, a title, befitting a novel about Murder. But rather than opening with the statement "When John and Jennifer Hart got together it was moyda." We have, "when Eddie Bear and Jack got together it was moyda." Moyda, or indeed murder, as I'm getting fed up with the red squiggles already, is taking place in Toy City, the setting in Robert Rankins' latest novel "The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies Of The Apocalypse" released in hard back (ISBN: 057507313) in September '02. I'm going to get back to where I started a little later, that is about the book, firstly an small introduction to Robert Rankin and why ...