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Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong

8 reviews

lasersheith's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional funny tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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toodrew's review against another edition

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dark fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

This book had an interesting premise. However, there is excessive violence against women as well as pretty much everything else horrible that can be done to women/girls. It has pretty much every misogynistic trope as well. For example, the only two women can't get along due to sexual jealousy. Ancient Greece called and wants her tropes back. There are no women side characters unless said side character are

sexual or in sex-related field,

in which case their are no men.

It does not work as a comedy because of this. You can't make

sex traffickers

likable. It would have been better if they either choose a different flaw or didn't bother trying to make them quirky. I couldn't feel sympathy for most of the main cast because of this. Like I get it's supposed to be bad people, but don't try to make them sympathetic. Seriously, there was a chapter detailing

how they would trick women (and perhaps even girls) from war-torn countries into sex slavery, specifically detailing how most were murdered before the age of thirty.

This can be done well if given proper weight but the execution is abysmal. The authors tried to make the cast who did this flawed-but-likable, even heroic in some cases. I'm sorry but no. That's not how to handle this material.

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dflemmons's review against another edition

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adventurous funny tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I read this because I really enjoyed the John Dies at the End series. It was a fun book, but not nearly the same magic as the others. In some ways, like with the plot and characters, it felt almost like a YA novel but with Pargin’s style of mature content.

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prairieraven's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Someone wrote "Dick Lit even though the main character is a woman." Yeah, that sounds about right. Ignoring plot holes and certain scenes being written simply for a punch line, it is nothing less than entertaining. Definitely women characters written from a man's point of view and wildly passes the Beschdel test even though only 3 women talk in the whole novel. This book reads like Ernest Clines work but with much less arrogance and a lot more humour. I'd put this down as a humorous dystopia sci-fi novel with an eerily accurate commentary on social media, smart technology, gaping wealth/poverty gaps and a city full of high technology and militia's in place of law and government sprinkled with dick and fart jokes and peppered with boobs.

Sometimes the line was blurred between satire and alarming perspective accuracy.

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