Good Omens
Terry Pratchett, 1990
A demon and an angel have gone native in England and would rather not see the world end, so they fumble toward preventing Armageddon.
Terry Pratchett
The title puns on The Omen, the 1976 horror film about a demonic child; Pratchett and Gaiman co-wrote the novel.
Feels like wonder, freedom and unease.
A demon's professional failing is liking the people he's meant to ruin.
He rather liked people. It was a major failing in a demon.Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into the design, somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse. Books by Terry Pratchett
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