Soul Enchilada
Written by David Macinnis Gill
Narrated by Michelle Carmen Gomez
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Girl meets boy at a car wash.
"Dog," she says.
"Dude," he says.
And probably this would have been a sweet teen romance. . . .
If Beals hadn't been sitting next to her in the car.
If Beals hadn't been a supernatural repo man looking to repossess her car.
And to possess her.
David Macinnis Gill delivers the whole enchilada. With a side of soul.
David Macinnis Gill
David Macinnis Gill lives in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina. He is the award-winning author of the Black Hole Sun series, Uncanny, and Soul Enchilada.
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Reviews for Soul Enchilada
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Narrated by Michelle Carmen Gomez. A dreadlocked, Afro-Texan teenage girl named Bug Smoot with a quick lip and a don't-mess-with-this-sister-girl attitude tangles with the Devil and his minions. Sounds like a promisingly funny story but I found many scenes prolonged and the narrative overall sluggish. In fact, I deliberately tuned out for about 10 minutes and when I refocused my attention, found I hadn't missed much at all. Ms Gomez does some promising voice work here particularly with Bug and her pal Pesto, but overall the package wasn't enough to keep me. I quit after the 4th disc.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Laugh out loud funny!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5"Bug" Smoot, an orphaned high school drop-out delivering pizzas for a living, finds out her soul is collateral for the car left to her by her Papa C who reneged on his own deal with the devil. Now it's up to Bug to win a wager of her own in order to take her soul back. Multi-cultural, El Paso setting, cars, basketball, lots of trash talk.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5could not get past the attitude and street language
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Not too bad of a read. I was pretty fun at times, but I felt like something was missing. I did enjoy Bugs' sassy attitude though.3/5 Good to read if your bored and want something a little silly.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A story that sometimes got a little bit goofy, but in a very self-aware way that I enjoyed. And I am completely in love with these characters – Bug and Pesto are too much fun.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heh, first I have to say Vinnie showing up with two hot pizzas to be delivered made me order pizza. Bugs, our heroine, wasn't driving my pizza, so even though I live three blocks away from the pizza place, by the time it arrived I'd finished reading the subliminal "order pizza" part of the book and was on to a stomach-turning Lord of the Fliesish bit. That said, Soul Enchilada is an impressive debut. I work with middle school kids, often with learning disabilities that has slowed their reading progress, often Latino. This is the book I've been waiting for. It's faced paced, has a romance that isn't syrupy, (It's quite a middle-school style romance actually where the couple is just as likely to be shoving each other and swapping insults as they are to be kissing.) that uses the basic "Devil Goes Down to Georgia" plot, ie a competition with the devil where a soul is at stake.Despite the plot everyone who has grown up in a Christian country has heard too many times, Gill manages to put enough twists and turns in it to make it amusing and new. While we're at it, we get to enjoy a good Dia de los muertos in the barrio. & he even manages to tie the whole thing in with the Aztecs & Mayans with their brutal ball game of the gods. I've seen basketball as the ball game of the gods before, but once again, not quite this way.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is one of those books that screams to you from the title and the cover. The full title is "Soul Enchilada: The Devil is in the Details" with little pitchforks and a neat demon font and flames. Hard to resist (I know, I'm an odd woman). Thankfully, the contents did not let me down- this is a unique piece of urban fantasy fiction without a lot of the nastier grit that sometimes comes with the genre.Eunice "Bug" Smoot is down on her luck. She can't pay the rent on her bottom of the line apartment and her pizza delivery job just canned her. All she has going for her is her dead grandfather's 1958 Cadillac Biarritz- and now someone's trying to repossess it! It seems that her grandfather was only able to finance the car at the cost of his soul, and now he's found a way to skip out on the bill. Mr. Beals (better known as Beelzebub) is the repossession agent chained to the car. With some help from her crush Pesto (who conveniently turns out to be an agent for the Supernatural Immigration Service) they get Beals out of the car- and things get a whole lot worse from there. It turns out that Bug's grandfather made a shady deal involving her own well being, and Beals is also much worse free than he was chained down! Will Bug be able to make her own deal with the devil and win her freedom?Yeah, it's far fetched, but it's a fantasy book. And it's seriously refreshing to read an urban lit fantasy that doesn't just conform to the standard formula. There is some rougher language centering around ethnicity (Bug is half Tejana and half African American and neither community accepts her) but a serious lack of bad language overall. Bug is bold and out there, a kind of female protagonist not frequently seen in any YA genre (brave and gutsy and totally able to handle her own problems but not bitter, closed off, or needing to be taught what love is). Gill writes the narratives of his characters so well- they never blend together and have distinct voices in the readers' minds. Basically, this is a great read for teens who like fantasy without the very typical fairy/vampire/fantasy lala land vibe. I'd pitch it to grades 7 on up.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The author does an excellent job of capturing the voice of a young Hispanic woman. Despite her often abrasive character and unusual situation, there is something about Bug that makes you want to be on her side.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Begin looking for this title from David Gill, President of ALAN, next Spring. Basketball used to be Bug Smoot’s passion until she loses to Tangle-eye, her arch rival, in the playoffs. Now Bug delivers pizzas in her grandfather’s classic Cadillac Biarritz. Her rent is due and a repo-man is sitting in her late grandfather’s car (now hers). Bugs is determined to keep her car. Beals, short for Beelzebub, is not, however, your every day repo-man. Neither is Bugs your every day car owner! Bugs soon learns that not only has her grandfather reneged on his contract with Beals, he has used Bug’s soul as collateral for Beals, who consumes souls like enchiladas. Armed with her wits, a lead foot, and her sassy attitude (and help from her hot demon-catching friend, Pesto, and his witch mother) Bugs attempts to beat the devil, save her car, pay her rent, and maybe even find someone she can love. Soul Enchilada is a fast talkin’, street walkin’ romp of a book that will have readers howling with laughter and craving Tejano food. Give this book to readers who like smart and funny fantasy.