I picked up a book on Friday by Jonas Jonasson. If you recognise his name it's probably from his debut The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, or his second book The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden. Both excellent, by the way.
So, when I came across Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All for a very low price on Kindle I jumped at it. And I read it in a little over a day because that's the best way to consume a book written like The Hundred Year Old Man....
And I was disappointed. It was quite good, I gave it 3 stars, but the writing style and twists and turns and historical information mixed with ridiculous situations that are actually only just plausible didn't quite live up this time. All of the elements were still there, but it just didn't seem to come together as well. But this isn't about my review of this book.
I have a lot of author loyalty, but this time it backfired and left me disappointed. I selected this book specifically because I liked the author's earlier books. My dad does it with James Patterson, my mum with Jodi Picoult, and young adults everywhere with John Green (guilty of this myself). But is this a good strategy?
Or did I just open myself up for yesterday's disappointment?