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adam_mcphee 's review for:
Cheap Thrills
by David Kloepfer
This was great. Vancouver noir that's at once gritty and darkly funny.
I really liked the novel-within-a-novel aspect and the references to a fictional video game series called Danger Close, a sort of Call of Duty set in various Canadian cities and dealing with American and Mexican cartel invasion scenarios. Both the novel and the fictional media universe within make you wish there was more Canadian genre fiction and less Vancouver-as-New York.
At first I kept comparing this mentally to Pineapple Express, I guess because of all the weed stuff (it's set before legalization), but by the end I decided it was much closer in lineage to Snatch, a comedy of errors set in the criminal underworld.
I really liked the novel-within-a-novel aspect and the references to a fictional video game series called Danger Close, a sort of Call of Duty set in various Canadian cities and dealing with American and Mexican cartel invasion scenarios. Both the novel and the fictional media universe within make you wish there was more Canadian genre fiction and less Vancouver-as-New York.
At first I kept comparing this mentally to Pineapple Express, I guess because of all the weed stuff (it's set before legalization), but by the end I decided it was much closer in lineage to Snatch, a comedy of errors set in the criminal underworld.