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A review by thedizzyreader
The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume One: At the Edge of Empire by Daniel Kraus
2.0
I'm not sure what compelled me to complete this meandering, bloated, bizarre book. Morbid curiosity? Kraus keeps the threads together long enough where you get invested and think this might actually be going somewhere before losing all sense of the story in Hollywood. Finch was a selfish, depressing, purposeless gangster in life and makes a selfish, depressing, purposeless cold corpse for the rest of the novel.
I'm not sure why this book is marketed YA, either. Just because the protagonist is eternally 17 doesn't make the novel YA material. In the first 100 pages readers are treated to scenes of prostitition, extortion and murder. And in the last 100 pages you get to read about the perils of engaging in coitus as an animated corpse.
There are few books that make me pause and ponder WTF did I just read and why did I do that. This book is one of them.
I'm not sure why this book is marketed YA, either. Just because the protagonist is eternally 17 doesn't make the novel YA material. In the first 100 pages readers are treated to scenes of prostitition, extortion and murder. And in the last 100 pages you get to read about the perils of engaging in coitus as an animated corpse.
There are few books that make me pause and ponder WTF did I just read and why did I do that. This book is one of them.