Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse

A funny fantasy novel written by Robert Rankin. It is about Jack, a young boy who runs away from home to a nearby city to seek his fortune. This city turns out to be Toy City, a dystopia with Living Toys. He befriends Eddie Bear, a teddy bear private detective, and investigates the serial murders of nursery rhyme characters.


 * Awesome Moment of Crowning:
 * Backwards Name: Srenda Srenda.
 * Big Eater: Humpty Dumpty, when he was alive.
 * Big Damn Heroes: Jill.
 * Bizarrchitecture: the houses are made of alphabet blocks.
 * Da Chief: Chief Inspector Wellington Bellace
 * Deadpan Snarker: Eddie
 * The Ditz: Tinto. Jack might also be considered a ditz.
 * Evil Twin:.
 * Fake Defector: Jack, at one point.
 * Genre Savvy: Jack has read aaallll the Bill Winkie Thrillers
 * Giant Spider: Miss Muffet's spider.
 * Greed: Jack seeks fortune.
 * Ho Yay: Jack and Eddie, according to Jill.
 * I Need a Freaking Drink
 * Inexplicably Identical Individuals: All humans look the same to toys.
 * Interspecies Romance: Subverted. Eddie is sickened by the idea of this. It is played straight with Garth and the dancing doll.
 * I Surrender, Suckers: Done quite a bit near the climax.
 * Jive Turkey: Randolph the delivery boy.
 * King of All Cosmos: Big Box Fella
 * Lampshade Hanging: Quite a bit of it.
 * Living Toys
 * MacGuffin: . Lampshaded.
 * Nightmare Fuel:
 * Nice Character, Mean Actor: Miss Muffet.
 * Obfuscating Stupidity: Officer Chortle looks, and probably is, extremely stupid, but at one point he cunningly tricks jack to admit falsely he is a murderer.
 * Posthumous Character:
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old:.
 * Rhymes on a Dime: The Rhymey Frog.
 * Running Gag: Jack is called a gompster by everyone.
 * Rich Bitch: Miss Muffet.
 * Shape Shifter:.
 * Snarky Non-Human Sidekick: Eddie, although Jack may be the sidekick in this relationship.
 * Stuffed in The Fridge:  Although the protagonists only really care about a few of them.
 * Talks Like a Simile: Subverted. Eddie tries to talk like a simile, but he can never finish. It's as unfair as-.
 * Toy Time: Although it's not a videogame.
 * Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him
 * Younger Than They Look: Jack looks 16, but is really only 13. He's merely tall for his age.
 * You Wanna Get Sued?: At least twice.