AUTHOR: Simon Carr
PUBLISHED BY; Simon Carr
Essentially, a group of pub
regulars discover something alarming about the world's leaders with the help of
a friendly alien salesman, Zac, a stranger they meet after hours in their pub,
The
Bull’s Head, who tells them the
planet is in trouble. They are unsure about what he is telling them due to the
amount of alcohol they’ve consumed. It's then a race against time to stop a
conspiracy which would make the most determined of conspiracy theorists' heads
spin. All of which is delivered with the familiar humour and straightforward
honesty of writing style readers have come to expect from this author.
It is a rather crude, very rude, read, splattered with expletives, but readers who’ve read Carrs work before will
be used to that. Carr has mingled together sci-fi and humour perfectly; it will have
readers laugh out loud and some of the one-liners and cleverly written puns will
definitely stick with them.
The story is irreverent and has
very imaginative situations and resolutions to problems; readers will be kept interested
until the end.
The prose is very blunt in
places; I can understand that some readers may find it an offensive read due to
the colourful language; there is
adult language, there is adult humour but then again the book is aimed for an
adult audience. Carr has created an honest, in-your-face style which is
refreshingly original, displaying imaginative and down-to-earth characters.
The book has been self-published
and has been produced in an unusual way which may be irritating to some
readers, particularly the 'grammar and punctuation police' brigade. The page script is not justified in the usual
way; there is an abundance of spelling errors; a distinct lack of use of
commas in the appropriate places; regular use of commas instead of full stops
which lead to lengthy sentences; random use of capital letters and the irksome
habit of starting new chapters in the middle of paragraphs. I’m not sure if the
book has been proof-read at all. Added
to this readers will either love or
hate the dialogue.
This nonsensical farce is like Marmite;
readers will either love or hate reading it.
Reviewer - Anne Pritchard
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