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"Wild satirical tale"

Hamza Senesert has a BA in English lit, but uses it to wash dishes alongside of peers who cannot speak English. He does write poetry when the muse hits him so one can claim perhaps he is just a part-time slacker.

His roommate Ulysses "Yehat" Gerbles shares much in common with Hamza as he too is a part-time loafer. Yet lazy bones earns bread clerking at a video store where he has developed a 5-L life taxonomy system based on his patrons as he enjoys inventing things.

Hamza falls in love with Sherem, who he admits must have come out of one of those Mummy videos as she is an odd duck. She persuades her Coyote Kings (aside to those as lazy as our heroes -- the royals are Hamza and Ye) to help her find and safeguard an ancient Egyptian relic with special properties. Their pals Kev and Heinz are also searching with the Kings, but they work for Sherem's enemy, who want to dine on Hamza's brain that possesses special prowess.

THE COYOTE KINGS OF THE SPACE AGE BACHELOR PAD is a wild satirical tale that needs some time to understand what is going on even with the epilogue at the beginning at least until readers realize that they have no idea. The plot spins out of control yet with all that gyration, fans who appreciate a way out wacky tale will stay the course. Nothing is sacred as Minister Faust skews anything and everything through the antics of his likable idlers and the immediate support cast who usually bring out the worst in the royal slackers.

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted August 9, 2004

Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted January 24, 2007

Hamza and Yehat are The Coyote Kings--best friends, one a disgruntled dishwasher and the other a video store clerk, but each brilliant in his own right. Yehat builds prototypes of space-age inventions in his spare time, while Hamza, a former English honors student who was kicked out of the university, writes lush, lyrical poems when he's not blocked--which, these days, is nearly always.

When the gorgeous, mysterious Sherem shows up in E-Town decked out in desert finery, Hamza's creative spark is ignited. Who is this sophisticated woman that speaks arcane African tongues, quotes from obscure comics and Star Wars movies, yet seems somehow too ethereal for the world Hamza inhabits? And what is the lost artifact that she and a cast of coiffed collectors and criminal cultists so desperately seek? As Hamza falls blindly in love with Sherem, little does he know that he and Yehat play the biggest part of all in the recovery of the ancient relic--and in the future of all living beings. . . .