Harcover, 374 pages
English language
Published Oct. 6, 2015 by Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press.
"Get ready for a world in which anyone can have the powers of a god or the fame of a pop star, in which human achievement soars to new heights while its depravity plunges to the blackest depths. A world in which at least one cat smells like a seafood shop's Dumpster on a hot summer day. This is the world in which Zoey Ashe finds herself, navigating a futuristic city in which one can find elements of the fantastic, nightmarish, and ridiculous on any street corner"--Amazon.com.
In the near future, Zoey Ashe navigates a city in which one can find elements of the fantastic, nightmarish and ridiculous on any street corner. Anyone can have the powers of a god or the fame of a pop star; human achievement soars to new heights while its depravity plunges to the blackest depths. Her only trusted advisor is a cat, but even …
"Get ready for a world in which anyone can have the powers of a god or the fame of a pop star, in which human achievement soars to new heights while its depravity plunges to the blackest depths. A world in which at least one cat smells like a seafood shop's Dumpster on a hot summer day. This is the world in which Zoey Ashe finds herself, navigating a futuristic city in which one can find elements of the fantastic, nightmarish, and ridiculous on any street corner"--Amazon.com.
In the near future, Zoey Ashe navigates a city in which one can find elements of the fantastic, nightmarish and ridiculous on any street corner. Anyone can have the powers of a god or the fame of a pop star; human achievement soars to new heights while its depravity plunges to the blackest depths. Her only trusted advisor is a cat, but even in the future, cats cannot give advice. At least not any that you'd want to follow.
Subpar, dull, and too bloody long. This is incredibly disappointing considering I am a huge fan of the author's other series.
OK, I'm not going to continue with this one. It's too much of a cliche hidden behind some interesting details (and, some not so interesting details when you come down to it.) I started it because I liked one of his cracked.com columns. And I liked John Dies in the End. At least I remember liking it. I suspect he wrote much of it before those other books and, now that he's a commercial success, decided to see if he could make some money from it. But I could be wrong. I won't hold it against him. I might try his "spiders" book.
Really really really disappointed with this book because of the following reasons:
1. The book doesn't feature David and John, my heroes, they don't even get some kind of bizarre cameo. (The book doesn't loose any stars for this, it is something I'll have to come to terms with)
2. Some of the writing is lazy, example. When our heroin reaches the city it gets described as being just like the city in the movie blade runner, easy enough to picture and the authors work is done.
3. His previous books to me have been borderline genius, so funny, so random and great characters that you are guaranteed to root for. This one however, not that funny, the sort of humour that can be found in many books.
Nothing original in this underwhelming book. Giving it 3stars for being an average story.
After thoroughly enjoying JDATE I had to check this book out and it does not disappoint. Several times I laughed out loud on the metro, startling fellow commuters. David Wong's writing always feel hyper aware of current internet culture and weaves that into the story in a more seamless way than other pop culture savvy books like Ready Player One. Definitely worth checking out.
