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    Happy Hour in Hell

    Written by Tad Williams

    Narrated by George Newbern

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    I've been told to go to Hell more times than I can count. But this time I'm actually going.

    My name's Bobby Dollar, sometimes known as Doloriel, and of course, Hell isn't a great place for someone like me-I'm an angel. They don't like my kind down there, not even the slightly fallen variety. But they have my girlfriend, who happens to be a beautiful demon named Casimira, Countess of Cold Hands. Why does an angel have a demon girlfriend? Well, certainly not because it helps my career.

    She's being held hostage by one of the nastiest, most powerful demons in all of the netherworld-Eligor, Grand Duke of Hell. He already hates me, and he'd like nothing better than to get his hands on me and rip my immortal soul right out of my borrowed but oh-so-mortal body.

    But wait, it gets better! Not only do I have to sneak into Hell, make my way across thousands of miles of terror and suffering to reach Pan- demonium, capital of the fiery depths, but then I have to steal Caz right out from under Eligor's burning eyes and smuggle her out again, past demon soldiers, hellhounds, and all the murderous creatures imprisoned there for eternity. And even if I somehow manage to escape Hell, I'm also being stalked by an undead psychopath named Smyler who's been following me for weeks. Oh, and did I mention that he can't be killed?

    So if I somehow survive Hell, elude the Grand Duke and all his hideous minions and make it back to the real world, I'll still be the most hunted soul in Creation. But at least I'll have Caz. Gotta have something to look forward to, right?

    So just pour me that damn drink, will you? I've got somewhere to go.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateSep 12, 2013
    ISBN9780756409838
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    Happy Hour in Hell
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    Tad Williams

    Tad Williams is a New York Times and London Sunday Times bestselling author of fantasy and science fiction, with novels translated into more than twenty languages and a global readership. He hosted a syndicated radio show for over a decade, co-created the first completely interactive television program, and is currently involved in film, television, comic books, computer games and other multimedia projects. He and his family live in California.

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    Reviews for Happy Hour in Hell

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    • 4/5
      Tad Williams sure does spin a good yarn!

      Happy Hour in Hell takes you on a journey you don't really ever want to go through, as Bobby Dollar puts on a demon body to traverse Hell to try and steal back his demoness love from her captor.

      I liked HHIH a lot, and I'll be looking forward to the next book!
    • 3/5
      So I read this book because I enjoyed "The Dirty Streets of Heaven" so much. I love the Bobby Dollar character and his friends. I found this book difficult to get through though. While the concept was fine, the entire book seemed pointless. The entire reason that Bobby went to Hell, was to retrieve his girlfriend. So we go through several hundred pages of hellish encounters and never get even close to the goal. As a matter of fact, we only see her twice, briefly. I guess I'm going to say that I'm fairly disappointed in this book. That's really a shame because I was looking forward to reading it.
    • 4/5
      More tedious than the first one. And an unsatisfactory ending.
    • 3/5
      I received a copy of this book for free for a review from the publisher, PENGUIN GROUP Berkley, NAL / Signet Romance, DAW.

      Bobby Dollar is back in the second installment from Tad Williams. Bobby is an Advocate of Heaven, sort of a lawyer that deals with certain people when they die, to help plead their case for Heaven in the afterlife. However, after events that happened in the first book, he is on a suspension of service, which leaves him plenty of time to 'rescue' his demon lover from Hell. Williams has created a different viewpoint of how Hell is, and what happens there to souls. Bobby has a grand adventure trying to survive it all, and get back what he feels is his. Good follow up story line, and I look forward to another book in this series.
    • 3/5
      *CAUTION! THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS!*I enjoyed this second installment of the Bobby Dollar urban fantasy series. In this book, Bobby makes the remarkably brave and suicidal decision to go into Hell itself to rescue his demonic girlfriend Caz from the clutches of the demon prince Eligor. Bobby's only trump card to keep his immortal soul intact is the sheer audacity of his plan and the fact that he still has the feather of an unnamed angel that reveals some kind of illicit pact between agents of heaven and Hell. *SPOILERS BEGIN HERE*Tad Williams does a good job of describing Hell. It's suitably horrific, although the sheer amount made me go a little numb after a while, which may have been intentional due to Bobby's growing numbness while in Hell. The various levels and hierarchy of Hell are pretty interesting, in a gruesome kind of way. I felt like I couldn't take a lot of the lesser demons seriously because they had names that reminded me of orcs or goblins rather than hellspawn. Names like Gob and Snakestaff, and Gagsnatch. Perhaps they were just translations of hellish names, but it lessened some of the impact. Unfortunately, I didn't like Caz as much in this book either. When Bobby finally reaches her, she refuses to go with him, saying that things will never work out between them. Which certainly is possible, but good grief, woman! This man, this ANGEL, fought his way through Hell to reach you...and you aren't even going to TRY to make a break for freedom? In fairness to Caz, she's probably been through more torment than most mortals or immortals can imagine and she's coped as best she can. But her attitude still irked me, especially since it ruined a very real chance for them to escape. Not long after, Bobby Dollar is captured by Eligor and undergoes some pretty horrific torture. And yet, when it's over, aside from the suggestion that he's going to have nightmares, Bobby emerges from this unscathed physically and apparently with his sanity intact. I'm not sure if this was a result of the demon body he borrowed or his own angelic nature, but Bobby almost NEVER does anything that indicates he's an angel. He wears a mortal body while on earth and most of the angelic stuff we got in the first book. But even then, Bobby seems more like a mortal than an angel, so I'm skeptical that being an angel shielded him from going insane under Eligor's torture. That part struck me as both gratuitous, unbelievable, and ultimately pointless. Perhaps it has repercussions in the next book, but right now it's a stumbling block in an otherwise pretty good novel.
    • 2/5
      This one doesn't measure up to the first book. I am however hopefully that the next one will be better.
    • 2/5
      Bobby Dollar, imperfect angel, goes to Hell to try to rescue the demon lady Caz with whom he has fallen in love. Most of the book covers his horrifying adventures and tortures there. He discovers that his boss, Temuel, is supporting a religious movement called the Lifters. He discovers that a psychopathic killer named Smyler was sent by an angel, rather than the demon Duke Eligor as he had assumed. He arranges to swap the high angel feather that was part of a secret deal back to the Eligor, in exchange for Caz. But Eligor tricks him and swaps him someone else. Interesting plot regarding the politics of the story, but way too dark and creepy to be enjoyable.
    • 3/5
      Tad Williams does Dante's Inferno! At least, that's what I think Tad was doing here. In the second book of this series, Bobby Dollar (the advocate angel Doloriel) goes to hell in the form of one of the damned with the intent of freeing his true love from the clutches of his arch-devil enemy. In the course of his journey Bobby experiences the full hellishness of several levels of Tad's loose interpretation of Dante's hell. Gone are the circles of Hell, replaced by levels that are accessed by an elevator of sorts. This book is dark, dark, dark. That's not surprising, considering its set in Hell, but Tad goes a little too far. Instead of observing, Bobby Dollar gets to experience several of the agonies of Hell in person. Along the way he helps to encourage some 'lifters' who hope to be let out of Hell as Bobby speculates often on the cruelty and futility of the concept of eternal damnation. Those parts of the book may disturb readers who take their bible interpretations very seriously. Overall, i wasn't as happy with this book as I was with book one. Effectively it was a tour of Hell with a lot of torture and not much else, which didn't appeal to me much. The characters and overall plot are fascinating as is Tad's speculation on morality and theology. It was worth reading, but at times it was hard to get through.
    • 3/5
      This book was kindly donated for review by the Penguin Group.Bobby Dollar, Heaven's slightly problematic angel, is having another ill-advised adventure in Happy Hour in Hell. In this book, Bobby decides to go to Hell to rescue his demon girlfriend Caz. Luckily, a higher level angel wants Bobby to do a little errand for him in Hell, so Bobby learns how to get down below. What proceeds is an adventure through Hell that only Bobby Dollar would venture through. This was a fun second installment in the Bobby Dollar series. I felt that Bobby Dollar's voice was stronger in this installment. Also, the writing in general seemed a bit cleaner. In other words, the first-person narrative didn't grate on me like the first book. I feel that Hell was described very well, and the place became a three-dimensional world for me. The land was not just fire and brimstone, but came alive with Tad Williams' writing. I must admit that the adventure seemed to drag a bit at times. It seemed that Williams' wanted to describe every facet of Hell, but the descriptions were interesting, so I kept moving forward. I wish that the book had focused a bit more on the Third Way conspiracy; however, I think this is going to be discussed more in the next book. This was a fun book, and I look forward to reading the next book in the series.Brief Note: I want to let people know who are sensitive to sexual violence in books that there is a rape scene in the book. It is not a focus to the book and the scene can be skipped without missing any major plot points to the book.
    • 4/5
      Ok, I'm a fan of most of Tad Williams Books. And I'm a fan of Bobby Dollar too. And every review occurs on a high level. And I liked Bobbies way through hell to save his demon girlfriend Casimira. What I liked also is the transformation of his mind - it seems not possible to walk through the different levels of hell and stay unaffected, not even for an angel.But with the progress of the plot even Tad Williams imagination of hell becomes a little tedious. But a hope for a really fantastic finale in der third volume.
    • 4/5
      Started a bit slow but when it picked up it had me on the edge of my seat! The journey through the levels of Hell were fascinating, as were the various characters Bobby meets along the way. I'm eagerly awaiting the next installment!
    • 2/5
      A disappointment after the great first novel in the series. I am not sure if I will even bother with the third one.
    • 3/5
      Leider kommt Band 2 nicht an das Niveau der "Dunklen Gassen des Himmels" heran. Das eigentlich spannende Setting - die Hölle - verleitet den Autor dazu, einige Seiten zu viel in die Beschreibung der Welt zu stecken. Diese ist zwar interessant, die verschiedenen Level der Hölle sehr unterschiedlich, allerdings verliert das Buch hierdurch auch einiges an Tempo. Trotzdem lässt es sich gut lesen, schließlich wird die Dynamik ersetzt durch die Beschreibung einer sehr vielschichtigen Welt. Insgesamt kein "Page-turner" wie Band 1, aber auch kein schlechtes Buch. Ich freue mich auf Band 3 =)
    • 5/5
      This installment starts from where it ends in the first book. This time he thinks up a plan to get into Hell to save the love of his life, Caz the Countess of Cold Hands. The journey into Hell is very vivid and descriptive (like all of Tad’s work) and really immersed me in the story. I took my time reading this savoring the sights, sounds and smells of Hell.

      The other side line story of a Heaven conspiracy made you think when you read it. Theories abound and I’m interested to see how it plays out in the next installment. It’s really a love story underneath it all and touched me. The things you do to save the one you love can be terrifying and intense.

      References to Dante's Inferno really interested me. The thought there are many different layers of Hell is hair-raising and thought provoking. The denizens you see in Hell give you an provocative look into a person's soul. This book has similar storytelling aspects to another one of my favorite authors, Clive Barker.

      I'm giving this 5 stars because I really love the plot and storyline and I really connected with the characters of the book. Thought-provoking and riveting story that really appealed to me. It touched my heart strings and was nerve tingling at times. I look forward to reading the next installment.