Review of 'Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Now for something completely different...in this clever story, we meet a delightful, super brainy character from apartheid South Africa named Nombeko Mayeki. Hold on, this story is a long ride, where fantastic farce meets grim reality.
The statistical probability that an illiterate in 1970s Soweto will grow up and one day find herself confined in a potato truck with the Swedish king and prime minister is 1 in 45,766, 212,810.
This, according to the calculations of the aforementioned illiterate herself.
And then, Jonas Jonasson makes it so...I enjoyed this very much. My one reluctant criticism would be that the pacing was a bit uneven; I found that it dragged a bit in the middle.
I loved Jonasson's use of quotes in the beginning of the chapters! And at some point, I must read his first novel.
Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb!
