Charges of Geresy

** This review contains spoilers **

I thought this book was very funny at times, despite the sentiments of other reviewers. It must be because I haven’t read ‘The 100 Year Old Man’ yet. Perhaps that’s for the best, but if anything it makes me look forward to reading the aforementioned if only to find out just how funny it really is.
The book is very engaging and paints a comically surreal picture of historical settings like Soweto in South Africa and “insert city with an umlaut here” in Sweden.
The story lines are a bit stretched, and by a bit I mean atomic bomb mixed up with antelope meat stretched, but it must have taken a decent amount of imagination to come up with story lines like those.
I feel really sorry for Nombeko and Holger Two for not only losing 19 years of her life, but also 19 point something million krönor as well as a joint degree to boot, all because of some ‘idiots’.
The only thing that still confuses me about this book is how in the world all these historical figures like Reinfeldt were included – name and likeness – and weaved into the book without anyone making a fuss, since at times they are ridiculed pretty badly. I guess that’s freedom of speech but still – I honestly thought they were all fictional until I accidentally looked up one of the names in the Kindle dictionary.
Another thing – who was the girl who saved the King of Sweden? Nombeko – if anything – seems to have been as much a cause of the mess as Celestine!