After the brilliance that was Lanny, I needed something that would be as far away in style and content as possible so as to not invite comparison. A palette cleanser or an amuse bouche you might say.
This was an ideal choice.
When Peter Crombie is killed by a golf ball while walking past the golf course, his life becomes a lot more interesting.
His father is your stereotypical mad scientist and ressurrects his son in his lab in the basement. Soon Peter has made friends with a local ghost of a vampire and finds himself on a quest to stop a vampire queen from eating the local am-dram group.
Being aimed at the younger market this isn't as gruesome as Millard's other books but it certainly doesn't suffer because of that.
The story is told at breakneck speed and has punchlines almost every other paragraph. The jokes have a pretty good hit rate (although for me that could be at least partly down to my love of Dad jokes) and this is therefore a damned funny piece of writing. There are atrocious puns galore, sideswipes at celebrity culture and some mercifully non-pc running jokes .
Adam Millard can always be relied on for a quick easy and laugh out loud funny read. There is a sequel to this sitting on my shelves and I will certainly be reading that sooner rather than later.
This is a genuine guilt free fun read. If you want cheering up, go out and buy Adam's back catalogue. you won't regret it.
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