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3.75
adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

So much fun to listen to! - I read the first one as a physical book, which was fine, but I enjoyed myself way more while listening to this hilarious absurdity of a story. I sometimes struggle with a writing style like this one, because it contains a lot of unnecessary sentences and words to enhance the humor. It works of course, but I get frustrated when I feel like nothing is going anywhere when I physically have to read the words. As an audio book, I was simply amazingly entertained. And it is narrated by Martin Freeman, how cool!!

In my opinion, it also includes a lot of clever observations about people in an entertaining way, even if I can't tell how much of it was written to be what i saw in it. 
My favourite quote was "reality is frequently inaccurate" by the way. Love it. I'll remember that for the next time I want to deny obvious cicumstances. 
(Which is one of the little observations I mentioned: humans are amazing at denying the obvious, simply because it would imply that their previous believes were wrong - and nobody enjoys being wrong. I know that this isn't an amazing revelation, but I liked how this was hilariously handled in this book.)