btuftin reviewed Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong (Zoey Ashe, #1)
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5 stars
I was prepared to hate this. It's a silly title, it's a silly book, it is very violent, it's full of horrible things and references to horrible things and the start of the book didn't do much to convince me this wasn't just speculative gore and bad jokes. It didn't wait very long to show that it was more than speculative gore and bad jokes, though. This is violence and bad jokes with messages and ideas weaved in. Thoughts about how humans are, how they should be, how they can be. It's like SJW James Bond, if one of the supervillain's hostages were the hero and if it had Jaws' decapitated head spinning on the lawn snapping at nothing for several days.
It is fairly unpredictable, has a lot of fun in it, and ... I won't go into detail about the rest, it's better left as a surprise, but …
I was prepared to hate this. It's a silly title, it's a silly book, it is very violent, it's full of horrible things and references to horrible things and the start of the book didn't do much to convince me this wasn't just speculative gore and bad jokes. It didn't wait very long to show that it was more than speculative gore and bad jokes, though. This is violence and bad jokes with messages and ideas weaved in. Thoughts about how humans are, how they should be, how they can be. It's like SJW James Bond, if one of the supervillain's hostages were the hero and if it had Jaws' decapitated head spinning on the lawn snapping at nothing for several days.
It is fairly unpredictable, has a lot of fun in it, and ... I won't go into detail about the rest, it's better left as a surprise, but be aware that there is not only futuristic violence, there is also futuristic death. And that I'd love to see this as a TV-series.
