
The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
A Novel
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Peter Kenny
A wildly picaresque new novel from Jonas Jonasson, the author of the internationally best-selling The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.
In a tiny shack in the largest township in South Africa, Nombeko Mayeki is born. Put to work at five years old and orphaned at 10, she quickly learns that the world expects nothing more from her than to die young, be it from drugs, alcohol, or just plain despair. But Nombeko has grander plans. She learns to read and write, and at just 15, using her cunning and fearlessness, she makes it out of Soweto with millions of smuggled diamonds in her possession. Then things take a turn for the worse....
Nombeko ends up the prisoner of an incompetent engineer in a research facility working on South Africa's secret nuclear arsenal. Yet the unstoppable Nombeko pulls off a daring escape to Sweden, where she meets twins named Holger One and Holger Two, who are carrying out a mission to bring down the Swedish monarchy...by any means necessary.
Nombeko's life ends up hopelessly intertwined with the lives of the twins, and when the twins arrange to kidnap the Swedish king and prime minister, it is up to our unlikely heroine to save the day - and possibly the world. In this wild romp, Jonasson tackles issues ranging from the pervasiveness of racism to the dangers of absolute power, while telling a charming and hilarious story along the way. In the satirical voice that has earned him legions of fans the world over, Jonasson gives us another rollicking tale of how even the smallest of decisions can have sweeping - even global - consequences.
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Perfect. Astounding. Marvelous
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I you do not have anything good to read
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Don't get me wrong, the prose is still great and fun, and it's a good screwball comedy-but the thing is, in THYOM, most of what happened was not the direct result of the protagonist being a moron. But Nombeko, for as smart as the writer claims she is, gets handed the idiot ball so many times in this story. There are several places in this book where she somehow never considers that the group she's with contains her own worst enemy and leaves them unchecked, only to move the story forward. I hate when smart characters act stupid for no reason, so that hurts this story for me.
However, despite that one issue, I still enjoyed the book. Just not as much as I could have.
Not as good as the previous, but still good.
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Bravo!
Smart fun!
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The themes of this story are:
1. do not underestimate people and
2. still waters run deep.
This book is filled with characters I loved because of their depth and because of how they surprise the reader (listener) and how they continually surprise the "bad" guys in the story.
Jonasson's style is outlandish, with action and scenarios that make you shake your head and chuckle. The suspension of disbelief is easy though because the characters are so lovable that I end up cheering for them no matter how nutty the situations and solutions are. His novels are just fun.
The narrator was great. He wrestled with a lot of accents and handled them very well.
A quirky, sweet, super fun novel
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Leaves your head spinning
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A fun read
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Loved it
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Rollicking fun
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Captivating story. Satisfying ending.
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