Oh my gosh, this book had me laughing constantly! From the hilarious one-line predictions for each chapter at the beginning of each chapter to the witty comments from both the elderly Garland Lenox as well as the snarky new girl, Parker Haddaway. Like chapter 60: "In which everyone's favorite bureaucratic asshat returns." Or chapter 53: "In which Garland Lenox tries to singlehandedly undo decades of Franco-American relations". Of course it begins earlier on with one like this in chapter 11, "In which our hero boasts of his excessive cautiousness, despite evidence to the contrary." It's a road trip on steroids, with the police after this World War II veteran and the two teens who may or may not have kidnapped him according to his lawyer, a lawyer that Garland claims put him in a nursing home without his permission. The romance that got them all started on the trip though is just really sweet, and the perfect story to go along with their own trip. I love when Edwin finally gets his chance to grab his ex-girlfriend Sadie's attention. I love how he handles it, and what she's done that makes it even better!

The humor in this story reminded me a lot of how much I enjoyed reading Denton Little's Death Date. I pretty much laughed almost all the way through this one. Even the emotional parts had perfect humor to release the tension. Oh yeah, the main character, Edwin, says the sorting hat would send him to Hufflepuff, which is my house, so that won me over to him right away!

Review first appeared on Lisa Loves Literature.