# Island of the Sequined Love Nun

By Christopher Moore

Profile: https://hahafiction.com/books/island-of-the-sequined-love-nun-8dee7679/

Tucker Case loses his job flying a cosmetics company's plane after a drunken crash. A missionary in Micronesia offers him another piloting job. With few options left, Tuck takes on missions whose purpose deserves rather more scrutiny than he gives it.

## What makes it funny?

Tuck looks better suited to being a dashing pilot than he is to flying a plane. His trip across the Pacific keeps going wrong, while the island adventure makes room for sarcastic supernatural figures and a talking fruit bat.

### The comedy at work

Moore sends an inept pilot through a rescue adventure that borrows from wartime flying movies, Shakespeare and biblical stories. Deliberately corny dialogue accompanies the mockery of heroic poses and religious authority.

### Try this if…

For readers who enjoy supernatural adventures led by someone poorly equipped for the job, with plenty of irreverence about the traditions behind the quest.

### Good to know

Expect sexual material, crude jokes, drunken flying and violence. The island's exploitation gives the farce a darker subject.

## What to expect

- Genre: Adventure · Fantasy
- Kind of humor: Farce · Parody
- Format: Novel

## Sources & further reading

- Author commentary: [Author book page](https://www.chrismoore.com/books-archive/island-of-the-sequined-love-nun)
- Review: [Kirkus review](https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/christopher-moore/island-of-the-sequined-love-nun)