Reviewed by Weird – Lucifer Licorice #1

Reviewed by Weird – Lucifer Licorice #1

I’m incredibly lucky to have some extremely talented friends on social media who follow what fuels their weird and make fantastic things that start as amazing ideas in their brains and end up as physical, tangible items.  Two of those friends are USA Today bestselling author Russell Nohelty and the incredibly talented artist Angela Oddling.

Now, both of these creatives are super talented on their own, but there is a certain special kind of magic that the two of them create when they come together, and Lucifer Licorice #1 is no exception.  If you’ve not heard of this book before, here’s the premise:

After being transformed into a licorice monster by a candy witch, Lucifer Licorice sets off on an epic quest to get his old life back. Along the way, he travels through the kingdom with his tea towel ghost companion Moober encountering weird monsters trying to gobble him up, fighting against emo-demons determined to tear him down, and traveling into the bowels of heck itself learning the error of his ways so he can stop being so bitter and be transformed back into his old body.

The brand new publisher Laguna Studios has a winner on their hands with this one.  Russell has once again laid the foundation for an incredible new world that I’m so excited to find out more about.  And Angela’s art is so perfect for this story, it complements the story so well!

I am not sure if this was the point of the story, or if this was even intentional, but this story to me was about the struggle to change people’s perception of you.  Lucifer, looking “not normal” ends up in a town where everyone in town passes judgment if you look a certain way.  So even though he had really nothing to do with the hardships the town was facing, he was being lumped in because of the way he looked. 

But, luckily for him, he meets a young girl that doesn’t go with how the rest of the collective town thinks.  She doesn’t judge Lucifer and Moober just on appearance alone and wants to see if she can try and help them out.  This book, to me, showed the importance of friends who are willing to not take you at face value but to give you a chance, and show who you are based on what you do and what you say, not on how you look. 

Just because you look a little different, does not mean you are a bad person.  And that’s something I think everyone can relate to.  

If you want to learn more about what happens, make sure you follow the new company Laguna Studios on their Facebook page, and ask them where you can get your own copy of Lucifer Licorice #1!  And to stay up to date on all the stuff that Angela and Russell have going on, make sure you sign up for their newsletters!