 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another book review. Today we are talking about Mucho Mojo by Joe Lansdale. This is of course the second book in the Hap and Leonard series. Let's jump right into it. Okay so first off this is so far there's only one other book before this one but this is my favorite in the series thus far. I'm gonna go ahead for those of you who just want to get in here and get my rating and get out. I'm giving this book a full five stars. It is hilarious from start to finish and the plot the the stuff that's going on in the book is far more interesting to me than anything in the first book even though I gave the first book four stars because it was so funny. The writing was so good. Again I listened to this one on Scribe. If you would like a free month of Scribe you get a free month using the link down there in the doobly-doo and my kids get a free month so you're helping support my kids reading habits. You don't have to keep it past those 30 days just get your free trial you can cancel it the day after if you want to it's still good for those 30 days so that you don't forget and they end up getting your money anyways but I appreciate you if you choose to do that. Now back to the review. This book is about Hap and Leonard going after Leonard's not going after but investigating the life of his uncle and with it he may or may not have been a pedophile. There's a bunch of stuff. There's a bunch of red herrings in the book. It was really fun to read and try to puzzle out the mystery and see how Hap comes along you know all these little tidbits. One thing I want to note is Florida is a fucking amazing character. That is one of the best characters I have ever read period. She is so nuanced her issues with dating Hap all this everything that happens in there the race relations and the discussions about I especially enjoyed because I'm a white man who married a black woman and both of my kids are of course mixed but reading that and those were some of the things I never asked these questions but these were some of the things that were brought up early on in the relationship about you know how people look at you or what they think or how judgmental they are if you're in an interracial relationship. I really really appreciated that the the way it all plays out was it's just very poignant and I appreciated that section of the book. I don't want to give any spoilers but Florida was the the bees knees did I just use bees knees yes I did anyways she was fantastic she was tremendous favorite character in the book by far. Another thing that I will mention once again is the this book is hilarious there's especially a scene in a bar that felt so much well I don't want to say it felt like Angel and Louie from the Charlie Parker books by John Connolly but I he John Connolly had to have based these characters Happen Leonard oh no his characters Angel and Louie on Happen Leonard they are so so so similar the only thing missing here is Charlie Parker is an outsider who is the main character where this this is kind of like my dream come true because I want I would love an entire series with Angel and Louie and I'm kind of getting that with Happen Leonard. I love noir with with with comedy as long as the comedy does not take away from the noir I mentioned this in my review of Chad Lutzky's The Neon Owl I felt there was too much comedy and the underlying plot was something was taken away from that because of the comedy whereas in this one it worked perfectly and that's that's rare that someone gets it right Chad Lutzky is a fantastic author I'm not I'm not downing on him whatsoever I still gave his book four stars but in this one there was a perfect balance of darkness and comedy anytime it got too dark it got funny anytime it got too funny it got dark a perfect balance and I hope I see that coming you know I'm we're going to be starting what is it the two bear mambo next week I feel you blow right through these because they're so easy to read also I have them on uh unscribed so I have I turn it up to times two or sometimes times three with this one I do times three because Jo Landel Lansdale's writing is so so good but times one or 1.5 will put me to sleep uh anyways so have you read the Happen Leonard series this book specifically have you read this one would you think about it did you love it did you hate it did you feel meh if you felt any of those things explain why you felt those things so that we can have a discussion but until next time I have been E you have been you this has been another book review I'll talk to you guys later bye bye