Book Review: This Charming Man by C.K. McDonnell


 Hello you,

It's been a quiet few days here so luckily I've had plenty of time to catch up on some reading. 

Huge thanks to Random House UK and Netgalley as always for allowing me to read an ARC.

I was really excited to hear that a sequel to The Stranger Times was going to published ever since I first heard the news. The Stranger Times is one of my favourite books of recent years and it's one I would really recommend to anyone. It has hints of Pratchett, and Gaiman while still being a brilliant new take on the genre. I loved it from the very first pages. The characters are really engaging, I loved Vincent Bancroft in particular (reminded me of Bernard Black which is not a bad thing !). He's an interesting character, he can be very rude and brash yet there is a tenderness there somewhere and this is more apparent in the sequel This Charming Man, where we also find out more about his backstory. The first book dealt with supernatural entities and this one is no different. We are back in Manchester and there are vampires aplenty. The characters from the first book reappear in this one along with some new faces. I cannot heap enough praise on this book, it is wonderful. It is funny and suspenseful and has moments that were very unexpected. I did not think a sequel could live up to The Stranger Times, but This Charming Man does. I really hope there will be more books in this series and C.K. McDonnell is quickly becoming one of my favourite authors.



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