BOOK TOUR x RANDOM THINGS TOURS - Comeback by Chris Limb

Sometimes going to Hell and back takes a lifetime...

London, 2007. Genie is at the height of her career. She has money, a BRIT Award, fame, a gorgeous man on her arm ... but it's all a lie. And when Oliver dies, it's just too much. Her world starts to shatter around her, she can't stop thinking about Wendi, her lover who skyrocketed her into this new world, can't stop thinking about how someone is going to expose her as a manufactured fraud ...and it feels as though this fake life isn't really worth living anymore.

But Genie is soon going to find that Hell isn't only on earth.

"If she was dead, how come her heart was still beating? Why did she still feel so warm? Why was anxiety still swirling around in her mind. What if the Afterlife was just this forever?"

Right from the brilliantly expletive opening, Comeback, was something else. A genre-blending chaotic mash-up of classic mythology, rock and roll and fiction.

We go on a journey of self-destruction with Genie, watching from the moments she first Wendi, her immersion in the rockstar lifestyle and her downfall, all while watching her trying to navigate the endlessness that is the afterlife. Genie was inherently unlikeable - but almost likeable because of that. Deeply flawed, selfish and naive, but yet something about her makes the reader care for her and become so invested in her strange adventure.

I adored Limbs interpretation of the afterlife - a shifting fever dream that felt so familiar yet so unknown at the same time. Taking inspiration from classic stories like Orpheus and The Divine Comedy but presenting it with an imaginative new twist.

Now, of course some readers will find the vivid depictions of drugs and alcohol a little hard to read - and for me there were some racial stereotypes and gender-based comments that didn't sit right with me.

Brilliantly absurd, this hilariously witty and dry reimagining of the afterlife is sure to leave you bewildered.

⭐⭐⭐

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Thank you to @RandomThingsTours and the publisher for inviting me to take part in this tour. I was gifted a copy of this title in return for an honest review.

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