Sweet sweet revenge Ltd. by Jonas Jonasson

"Sweet sweet revenge Ltd." by Jonas Jonasson - Author is back!

This book is published by HarperVia in 2021 and has 336 pages. 

Victor Svensson works as a manager of art gallery. He is a fraud. He has an illegitimate son (Kevin) from a black prostitute. After her death, he pays for son's sustenance and when he turns 18 takes him to Massai savanna in Kenya and leaves him there to die. Victor marries daughter of art gallery owner and after the owner dies, takes all the property and divorces his wife. In Kenya, Kevin doesn't die and is adopted by a Maasai warrior cum medicine man. Years later, Kevin runs away from Africa and reaches Sweden. His adopted father, who knows nothing about the ways of modern world, follows him from the Savannah. 

Why does Victor leave Kevin to die? Why does Kevin run away from Africa? Who does he meet in Sweden? What's about Irma Stern paintings? What is Sweet sweet revenge Ltd.?

An African, untouched by modern things, is a fountain of humor. Add to it situational comedy. Add to it a crazy and absurd plot. Add to it author's dry humor & black humor and you have a very good recipe. This heady mixture creates a lot of hilarious situations. It's author's USP. While reading the book you smile many times. Sometimes you even laugh out loud. That counts for something!

The story develops nicely, you expect more.  Then there is a death. From this point on the author suddenly loses interest in elevating the graph and starts to wind down. The story basically fizzles out after that. As if that wasn't enough, author drags the end so much that it leaves a bad after taste. Much of last few pages could have been deleted straightaway. It would have improved the book. 

Concept of Sweet sweet revenge Ltd. is novel but it comes with inherent limitations. Author realizes it and winds it down before the book ends.

This book is better than author's previous book, but not in the league of "100 year old man...."

Like all Jonas Jonasson books, this book cover too has single prominent colour and shows a walking person. Another USP?

Why did I read this book? Author. 

What did I like? Irish angle. Humor. 

What I didn't like? Dragged end.

Recommend reading.