
Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd.
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Narrated by:
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Peter Kenny
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By:
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Jonas Jonasson
About this listen
Victor Alderheim has a lot to answer for. Not only has he heartlessly tricked his young ex-wife, Jenny, out of her art gallery inheritance, but he has also abandoned his son, Kevin, to die in the middle of the Kenyan savanna.
It doesn’t occur to Victor that Kevin might be rescued and adopted by a Maasai medicine man, or that he might be expected to undergo the rituals expected of all new Maasai warriors – which have him running back to Stockholm as fast as you can say circumcision without anaesthetic.
Back in Stockholm, Kevin’s path crosses with Jenny’s – and they have an awful lot to talk about, not least a shared desire to get even with Victor. So it’s convenient when they run into a man selling revenge services, who has an ingenious idea involving Victor’s cellar, a goat, some forged paintings, four large boxes of sex toys, and a kilo of flour …
©2021 Jonas Jonasson (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers LimitedCritic reviews
‘This novel zips along’ Sunday Times
‘In the first chapters of Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd there’s enough plot for several novels… Jonas Jonasson, best known for The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, is a wildly inventive writer, often funny, who stuffs his bonkers but entertaining story with art, politics and romance, and a tongue-incheek meditation on the philosophy of getting even. Great fun.’ The Times
‘Jonas Jonasson creates hilarity out of brilliantly absurd plots, whether it is a 100-year-old man escaping through an old folk’ home window, or a South African peasant girl who saves the King of Sweden. His latest unlikely hero is Kevin who is abandoned by his callous father on the Kenyan savannah in the expectation he will be eaten by lions…Add a crooked art dealer, a lazy Swedish policeman, an ophthalmologist whose wife ditched him for a urologist, and we are set for delicious Jonasson mayhem’ Daily Express
‘A glorious romp which confirms Jonas Jonasson’s status as the most brilliant comic novelist alive’ Daily Mirror
The multiple threads that all tie together
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Another good read
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Peter Kenny's delivery is immaculate too. I really enjoyed this audiobook.
Absurdly funny
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Did not disappoint
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Witty, fun, intricate
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An enjoyable story
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A Jonasson classic
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Brilliant
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Fully enjoy Peter Kenny’s narration and accents.
Love Jonas Jonasson’s books
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That said, and the cliché portrayal of the African Massai warrior aside, the formula still works and I was entertained throughout.
The narrator did a fabulous job.
Occasional snort laugh guaranteed
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