BOOK REVIEW || THE WRONG STOP || REX BURKE
Three university students, Hutch, Sully and Jed embark on trip across Europe by Train. What can go wrong? Especially when you throw three different personalities in the confined space of a train carriage. Firstly, there’s Hutch, a lover of order and spreadsheets! Then there’s Sully, a lover of Chaos and anything that has alcohol in it. And finally, there’s Jed! A lover of pockets and conspiracy theories.
When the group bump into a bloke on the train who has a penchant for chips, they find out he’s got off at the wrong stop, and much to Hutch’s reservations, Sullly takes the stranger under his wing. However, nobody was expecting what they found and ultimately how much trouble it would get them into.
The story is told from three different perspectives, firstly there’s the group of lads (and I mean that in the most laddish sense), then the other two points of view come from the Bureau of External Visitor Incursions (or Bevi for short). Firstly, there’s the bureau itself who send emails to each other, and then there’s the operatives who we see the replies to the texts they send.
The book is very reminiscent of the great British comedies that I grew up with, and whilst there is that modern British banter humour that you see with the likes of Pegg and Frost, or in Red Dwarf, the book also put me in mind of other great British comedies like That Riviera Touch. It’s that same kind of aesthetic, a group of bumbling idiots get thrown in at the deep end and bumble their way through the situation.
The Wrong Stop is very fast paced, and I have to admit, this was one of those books that I started, and before I knew it I had finished. I chuckled my way through, right to the end, especially with the different mediums, emails, texts and quick-witted banter. The book was such an easy read that much like the trains that the story is based on, the pages flew by as quickly as the miles across the continent.
It was an absolute joy to read.
When the group bump into a bloke on the train who has a penchant for chips, they find out he’s got off at the wrong stop, and much to Hutch’s reservations, Sullly takes the stranger under his wing. However, nobody was expecting what they found and ultimately how much trouble it would get them into.
The story is told from three different perspectives, firstly there’s the group of lads (and I mean that in the most laddish sense), then the other two points of view come from the Bureau of External Visitor Incursions (or Bevi for short). Firstly, there’s the bureau itself who send emails to each other, and then there’s the operatives who we see the replies to the texts they send.
The book is very reminiscent of the great British comedies that I grew up with, and whilst there is that modern British banter humour that you see with the likes of Pegg and Frost, or in Red Dwarf, the book also put me in mind of other great British comedies like That Riviera Touch. It’s that same kind of aesthetic, a group of bumbling idiots get thrown in at the deep end and bumble their way through the situation.
The Wrong Stop is very fast paced, and I have to admit, this was one of those books that I started, and before I knew it I had finished. I chuckled my way through, right to the end, especially with the different mediums, emails, texts and quick-witted banter. The book was such an easy read that much like the trains that the story is based on, the pages flew by as quickly as the miles across the continent.
It was an absolute joy to read.
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