Review: ‘Addicted to Death’, by Matthew Redford

Published By: Clink Street

Publication Date: 2015

I.S.B.N.: 9781910782071

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Review

Pros:

• Amusing, I enjoyed the homour ans storytelling
• Well-developed characters
• Good plot
• Unexpected villain
• Entertaining twits (and I do mean twits, not twists)
• The plot twists were good too
• Timely social satire

Cons

• A little heavy on the puns. One after another after another got a bit repetitive at times
• Some of them just weren’t funny

Overall

A very enjoyable way to spend an afternoon. I picked the book up to get it read, expecting that it might take me a few days as some of my review books do, and couldn’t put it down for several hours. It put me in mind of Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next books, the humour and absurdity is on a similar level. I recommend it if you enjoy those books.

4/5