This is not the first Jonas Jonasson book that I have read. I have found his books to be entertaining and often make me laugh out loud. This time around, it is the book Sweet Sweet Revenge LTD.

One of the things that Jonas seems to do very well is to introduce you to a character and give you a bit of their story. Then he introduces you to a different character who seems to have nothing to do with the first one and gives you their story. Sometimes there are 3-4 characters who are all presented to you before you begin to see how they will all come together and how their stories intersect with the others.

Before going on, here is the Goodreads synopsis:

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…

Right from the start, we are introduced to a very unlikeable guy – Victor. The more he does, the more you can hardly believe it. You won’t have any trouble disliking him. If you think of the literary descriptions of The Grinch, or maybe Ebenezer Scrooge – they’d fit him.

What follows is the intersecting of four lives, their encounters with the police, the search for the true owner of a couple of paintings and confusion brought about by cultural ignorance. All of that leads to some funny and laugh out loud moments.

While this is not the best book I have read by Jonasson, it wasn’t a bad read.

3.5 out of 5 stars.