Random Things Tours: Psychopaths Anonymous by Will Carver

 

´People are stupid.

Psychopaths are not. Usually´.

Meet Maeve ´a functioning alcoholic with a dependence on sex and an insatiable appetite for killing men´. Sounds tempting? Would you have such a girlfriend? A girlfriend introducing herself: ´My name is Maeve, and I´m a psychopath. It has been four weeks since the last kill´. Actually it can work, only try not to check her freezer, you may find some corpses stored there.

But the thing is that she is not alone and just creating a gathering of likeminded people sound as a great plan. A survival plan for some, the death for others. Psychopaths Anonymous is her project, but it should be kept secret for obvious reasons. But it is not such an easy task and while keeping it away from curious eyes, there may be some collateral victims along the way. 

Psychopaths Anonymous by international bestselling author Will Carver published by Orenda Books is one of the most hilarious books I´ve read this very busy bookish year. The writing makes your laught to tears, with a high dose of self-irony and cynicism. It is not funny, but hilarious, that kind of hilarious that the world deserve it sometimes. Why should life be taken so seriously, anyway?

The story is told by Maeve who is clearly talking so much - I´m the last person in the world to complain about someone, anyone talking too much anyway - but she is the character with the stronger literary consistence. An unforgettable character anyway, although I may be careful with someone like her in real life. In fact, all the characters in the book do have a liveable literary personality and even though the narrative is not always necessarily going somewhere, the main actors do really bring the salt and pepper into the tale.

Psychopaths Anonymous is for adventurous readers with a special sense of humour. I definitely need to see the movie based on the book. Would be very much worth the effort.

Rating: 4 stars

Disclaimer: Book offered as part of the book tour but the opinions are, as usual, my own