It's been a while since I read anything by Tom Holt, but I enjoyed returning to his weird and wacky world. In this adventure, Jane wants nothing to more than to peacefully commit suicide in a railway station waiting room, but instead is inflicted by the genie of the aspirin bottle, of Kiss, as he likes to be known. Somehow, the two of them get dragged into having to save the world from another genie, Philly, who tries lots of crazy stunts to bring this about, like mutated pansies and plagues of frogs. Along the way, there is a run in with a teenage Cupid, armed with the most modern of assault rifles, a lazy fisherman and the Lord of the Dragons, a love sick nuclear bomb and a duty Guardian Angel.I did enjoy reading this and smiled my way through. It wasn't my favourite of Holt novels, but I liked the whole world of Genie's that he's created. However, I'm not sure I 'got' what Davy Jones' locker had to do with it all. Anyway, a short, entertaining read for a lovely sunny day.
