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Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd.
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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 …
Critic 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
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- Mary-Jo
- 22-02-2023
Absolute must read
I loved this book. Took me a little to get into as it set the scene but then I was hooked. Made me giggle many times and the narration was perfect!
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- Loretta.
- 14-03-2022
Sweet Sweet Revenge by Jonas Jonasson
I really enjoyed this book .it made me laugh a bit Thank you Jonas for writing it 💜.And thank you Peter Kenny for reading to me much appreciated 💜
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- Sarah
- 16-11-2021
Best book I've read in ages.
Absolutely loved this crazy book... literally laughed until I cried, many times over.
I can't recommend it enough and the narrator is brilliant too.
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- Amazon Customer
- 31-12-2021
Another madcap adventure
I love Jonas Jonasson's books for their zaniness. Some more great moments here but didn't find myself as hooked or as amused as many of his previous stories. The ending wasn't quite as enjoyable as others and it seemed a little odd focusing the epilogue on the inspector rather than the main characters. I thought there'd be a final twist in the tale but there wasn't. I loved Ole Mbatian as a character and would be keen to read more of his abtics. .This is the first of Jonas Jonasson's books I've listened to on Audible and I haven't had much listening time of late so that perhaps made it more disjointed.
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- Michelle McEwan
- 08-11-2023
Loved every minute
I love all of Jonas Jonasson’s books and this was an entertaining listen. Good narrator and high quality production.
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- John
- 01-01-2022
Quirky but entertaining
I would rate this a 3.7 rounding up to a 4. I enjoyed this listen and it certainly had a unique plot that kept you engaged.
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- viviennej
- 25-01-2022
A good story but in need of much editing
Up to about halfway through listening to this book I was thoroughly engaged. The narrator was good and the storyline intriguing and the characters well developed. But the second half kept getting lost in details about characters who don’t build the story or move it along. A pity as I can’t really recommend a book just for half of it.
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- Grzegorz
- 28-03-2023
not the same level...
...as the previous books. 100 year old man made me laugh out loud, here not so much.
plus the performance was rushed? had to slow down the speed a bit.
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- Louise
- 26-11-2021
Hilariously weird
This is a really funny book and the characters are amazing. There is something a bit tragic to it, too, as the relationships are explored.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-12-2021
Not my kind of book, but still good.
Not my kind of book but I still liked it. The narrator was great but sometimes forgot to switch between accents which threw me off a bit.
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