Much like the movie ENCHANTED, JAM is both a love letter and a parody of the apocalypse genre. And it is outrageously funny. Like, I got stares, both from animals and humans, because I was laughing so hard and so much while reading. The characters were realistic and true, just regular people muddling through their (jammed) day. The tone, atmosphere, and mood of the book was helped by so many on point metaphors that I'm counting JAM as reading for my Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing. It's a brilliant book and absolutely a must-read for anyone who likes Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett's GOOD OMENS and Douglas Adams' HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY series.

Humor notwithstanding, what's keeping me from giving the novel a full five stars is the ending. It was super brutal and unexpected for an essentially comic story. I won't spoil anything, but peanut butter and toast fails to be applied.