Review: Funny, sweet and compelling - Great sequel
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 1, 2014
Slow-paced story overall; good mystery, light romance with recently established couple, good humour, good portrayal of working class Britishness. This is the second book in the series.The main couple is Tom (a plumber and school drop-out from a good middle class family who likes to rough it up), and Phil (a PI from a working class family who likes to posh it up). They are former high school enemies, since Phil was Tom's designated bully at the time, and was partially responsible for the accident that caused Tom's limp.There is a paranormal element with Tom's strange gift: he can find hidden things. When someone hides something, there is an energy that's like a trail and if Tom concentrates a bit, he can follow the trail and find the hidden stuff. In book 1, Pressure Head, Tom and Phil meet when Tom, at the request of the Police, uses his gift to locate a hidden dead body.At the end of this book, Tom finds something about his family that shatters him. I hope this will be explored in the next book.I liked: Tom's best friend, the super flaming Gary, and Gary's boyfriend, Darren.I loved: How the romance between Tom and Phil works: they are not much into talking about their feelings, but they manage to talk and communicate very well, though in a shy, reserved way. I liked that.Well done: the mystery. It's not super-gripping or over-angsty, but it is compelling, intriguing and you don't have those illogical, WTF moments.