ronpayne 's review for:

The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel

4.0

challenging dark funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A biopunk story set in a future where performance enhancing drugs and gene modifications are allowed in baseball and the teams are owned by big pharma. We follow a washed up baseball player/scout who is buried in medical debt from his playing career as he tries to solve the murder of his superstar slugger brother. I think it went a bit over the top with the world building (think Snow Crash), but it does it in the service of a fun story, and is very on point with its themes.