Good evening everyone! I’m thrilled to be on the blog tour for this wonderful book tonight. Huge thanks to the lovely Anne for understanding when I was unable to post earlier due to one child going on antibiotics, one having potential chicken pox and not being able to type due to a very painful hand with infected excema. As someone said it never rains it pours. I’m typing with one finger so apologies for any typos.
Book Synopsis:
Sam Holloway has survived the worst that life can throw at you. But he’s not really living. His meticulous routines keep everything nice and safe – with just one exception…
Three nights a week, Sam dons his superhero costume and patrols the streets. It makes him feel invincible – but his unlikely heroics are getting him into some sticky, and increasingly dangerous, situations.
Then a girl comes into his life, and his ordered world is thrown into chaos … and now Sam needs to decide whether he can be brave enough to finally take off the mask.
Both hilarious and heart-warming, this is a story about love, loneliness, grief, and the life-changing power of kindness.
The Unlikely Heroics Of Sam Holloway is available now in ebook and paperback, you can buy a copy of both here.
My Review:
Wow this was a gorgeous book. It managed to be heartbreaking and heart warming at the same time.
Firstly it’s hard not to fall in love with Sam. I knew I liked him from the first page and soon fell in love with his unique personality and his way of looking at things. He’s such a sweet, geeky character that I just wanted to wrap him in cottonwool and give him a hug. I loved his misguided attempts to be a superhero and how he ends up helping a few of them as I felt this really showed the type of person he was. Throughout the book Sam shares some parts of his childhood with the reader which are heartbreaking to read about. I was always the odd one out at school so I really felt for Sam at these moments.
This is just the perfect book to sink into and lose yourself in for a few hours. Sam’s fairly organised and normal (superhero antics aside) life is rocked by a girl’s arrival. It was fantastic to read about his journey into the unknown and his attempts to let his guard down. This wasn’t a particularly fast paced book but it was a hugely enjoyable one that would make a great book club read as I think there will be lots to discuss.
Huge thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me onto the blog tour and to Headline my copy of this book.
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Thanks for the BLog Tour support Jo x
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