A review by toodrew
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong

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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