The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared is one of my favourite books ever, it was a laugh a minute, Allan is a fantastic bloke and has the past that we all crave. So when I spotted this sequel I grabbed a copy and started reading right away.

In the intro Jonas Jonasson explains that he never planned a sequel but with the way the world seems to be falling apart with crazy political leaders the Hundred-Year-Old Man was jumping at the chance to speak out.

The book is incredibly political, Trump and Kim Jong-un receive a lot of abuse, I assume if they could read then they might have put a stop to this book. It was great to read about Allan again and to witness his care-free adventures, but this time around it is missing something. I eventually figured out what, the first book had his current adventure but also had his past, together they balanced each other out. This time though there is nothing about his past and things end up not being as interesting, the parts that would have had a scene from the past were very bland. The plot is pretty tight and the characters were good as expected, it was also great to see well known people included. The treatment of Trump had me laughing each time.

It was a good effort, it's just a shame it suffers from the sequel syndrome.

Blog post is here> felcherman.wordpress.com/2018/08/27/the-accidental-further-adventures-of-the-hundred-year-old-man-by-jonas-jonasson/