This is an absolutely fantastic piece of escapism, in our world of 9 to 5 life and café community. Read about journalists and police working normally, but with magic - bending reality and creating chaos all around. There are some really evil people out there and you're more likely than not to meet them in this book. Not forgetting the creepy a'holes too.
And you'd think that, at one of the most seasonal times of the year, people would have learned to be nicer to one another. But we all know that's a lie, just look at how people behave in queues!
The characters are real live (in the book) people, with history. Some have more history than you'd expect! They wind each other up and at the same time look out for one another. Or not. It all depends on where you work!
I enjoyed reading it, I haven't described what happens because the book synopsis does that as do many reviewers, so it saves you reading the same stuff over and over. However, I most certainly recommend it to you, no guarantees because I don't know what you('re) like, and feel sure that you can get something from reading it.
Thank you to NetGalley and Random House UK, Transworld Publishers | Bantam for approving me to read this book.
5/5 Stars
Official description:
It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas . . .
For most people, that means a time of celebration, relaxation and inebriation, but not for the staff of The Stranger Times. While a book club meeting ending in a triple murder isn’t unprecedented, it is at least noteworthy. It quickly emerges that this is no ordinary book-club-triple-murder either, as it features a librarian possessed by a chaotic entity who has broken through from another dimension and is hellbent on vengeance. He’s made a list, but he’s not checking it twice as the whole of humanity is on it. Who would want to summon such a thing? And how is anyone going to be able to send it back?
As if that wasn’t enough to be dealing with, a shocking revelation about a member of The Stranger Times team’s past brings family together, but not in a way that’s ever going to make it into a Hallmark movie.
Featuring demonically possessed Santas, blood-thirsty books and the ghost of a legendary nightclub, it’s beginning to look a lot like a Christmas apocalypse . . .
Ring the Bells is the fifth book in the award-winning, critically acclaimed and laugh-out-loud funny The Stranger Times series.
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