The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman - REVIEW

𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓪𝓷 𝓦𝓱𝓸 𝓓𝓲𝓮𝓭 𝓣𝔀𝓲𝓬𝓮 – 𝓡𝓲𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓭 𝓞𝓼𝓶𝓪𝓷 (𝓐 𝓷𝓸𝓷-𝓻𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀)

I am writing this after having finished a vegetarian full English breakfast that I made quite happily on the Sunday of last week. You will know from the title of this that this is not a full review because, for me, Richard Osman did such a good job of this sequel that you can count on the praise of it being identical to my praise of his first book, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘔𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘊𝘭𝘶𝘣.

SO,

This time around, millions worth of diamonds are involved, dead bodies (or not actually dead??) and Elizabeth’s old flame returns out of her secret service past.

Osman’s fictional universe is brimming with exciting character details and paths to lead every-which-way:

• The philosophy on life by the elderly cast (and I say elderly tentatively)

• The intergenerational comedy gold

• The pleasure in the pleasurable

“𝘌𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘰𝘻𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘶𝘭𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘵𝘢𝘹𝘪. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘉𝘰𝘨𝘥𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘰𝘳. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨.”

Why you should read this book?

The final handful of chapters gleam with rewarding moments and endings nicely tied up. Having said this, I do hope that there is a third instalment.

PS. Bogdan has a crush (Read it just for this)