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Violence
Barely any
The apocalypse is a threat rather than a spectacle; some comic violence
Language
Some
Mild-to-moderate language in an irreverent British register
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking; some characters are depicted as fond of fine wine
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
The question of whether good and evil are really opposites, or just different choices — philosophical rather than distressing
What this book is about
The Antichrist has been born — accidentally placed with the wrong family in a mixup at the hospital — and is growing up as a perfectly normal English boy in the village of Tadfield. An angel named Aziraphale and a demon named Crowley, who have been stationed on Earth since the Garden of Eden and have grown rather fond of the place, are doing their level best to prevent the apocalypse while technically pretending to support it. Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's collaborative novel is a masterwork of British comic fantasy: warm, wickedly funny, deeply humane, and ending with a meditation on free will that is far more moving than a comedy about the end of the world has any right to be.
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satirizes religion; the Antichrist is a sympathetic character
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