A Man With One Of Those Faces

It is not often that I immediately decide to buy a book based on a single review, but after (I believe it was) Magdalena’s review for the second book of the series, I couldn’t resist. It just sounded like the thing I would most definitely like, and I did.

Paul is a man with one of those faces, they blend in very easily and are often mistaken for those of others. As such, he’s doing a volunteer job at a hospice as the ‘granny whisperer’, talking to dying patients and pretending to be their relative so they feel less lonely. That is, until one of them tries to kill him.

What follows is a very funny pursuit in which Paul, together with Nurse Brigit try to stay out of the hands of the Dublin underworld. I liked it a lot. I expected to like it, but still, there needs to be some kind of connection and luckily it was there. The characters are very witty and the there’s enough making fun of the clichés that it actually doesn’t matter not everything is super original. I truly felt sorry for both Paul and Brigit as their lives haven’t always been easy and they made some difficult decisions.

To be honest, for me was it not the laugh-out-loud experience that other people said it was, but I did smirk from time to time, and I truly enjoyed reading it.