Jonathan Ames

I am thinking of investing in the audiobook of this novel, but I’m not quite sure that it’s going to be funny enough because based on how funny bored to death, the TV show is I don’t think this writer really has what it takes to be a PG Wodehouse. The only thing that keeps me from not jumping right in is the cost of the audiobook. I have read other Jeeves satires, and they’re usually pretty good. The main thing about this one is the butler character is named Jeeves and he doesn’t really exist. He’s a figment of the main characters imagination.… (mais)

There is a lot to like in this book but it is not perfect. I'm not convinced that the most spaced out hippies would name a boy "Happy" anything, let alone "Happy Doll" and that Happy didn't change it when he could or that he would stop using "Hank" as an alternative. Happy is an interesting guy with a long harsh backstory. Today he is trying to be more serene. He loves his dog. Unfortunately, Happy makes his living as an investigator and we all know what that means. Bad guys (or her girls) come knocking. It's a far stretch to believe that Happy can find missing Ines when no one else can, but he does, and pretty quickly too. It's also hard to believe that Ines was murdered in her bed without a struggle but she does. Ines is the first in a very long string of deaths in the book. As the bodies piled up I kept wondering why in some novels people are knocked around hard and don't die but in other books. One good whack does them in. Anyway, there are a lot of bodies here.

I received a review copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley.… (mais)