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A review by sjj169
The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak
2.0
Billy and his two buddies Alf and Clark are desperate. They have learned about the teenage holy grail. Vanna White is in Playboy!
They hatch schemes to get their hands on a copy since it's the late 80's and no one will sell it to them since they are all under the age of eighteen. So they devise a plan to steal that sucker.
Billy's job is to get the security code from the grouchy old man that owns the stores daughter. Mary is a bit on the chubby side but Billy can handle it. (Not my words because my arse is chubby too.)
The thing is? Mary is kinda cool. She knows another one of Billy's kryptonites. Computer coding.
Keep in mind this is the eighties and computer programming is a whole different bag of nuts than it is now. She also tells him about a super cool contest going on where the winner of the best computer game gets a brand new computer (back in the day when those things were the cost of a house) and they get to meet the video game wizard of the time.
So Billy gets himself all worked up, he does have that game of strip poker featuring Christie Brinkley but Alf makes fun of it because her pubic hair is all jacked up. So he takes his second best game, The Impossible Fortress and knows it's a winner.
With Mary's help. (Because she totally is the brains in this operation)
This sounds like a cute book doesn't it? And in some ways it is. It does end up going in a very weird story arc in my opinion, but I'm not the best judge of crap like that.
The thing I am judgey about is if you are going to write a book about the eighties...get your stuff right. I have no clue about all the video game/computery stuff so I'm not judging there. BUT there is a joke made that threw off the whole book. I know the eighties were forever ago.
But you gotta know that some old asshole (namely me) is going to notice when you get something glaringly wrong and there are several things so wrong in this book.
Booksource: Netgalley in exchange for review.
They hatch schemes to get their hands on a copy since it's the late 80's and no one will sell it to them since they are all under the age of eighteen. So they devise a plan to steal that sucker.
Billy's job is to get the security code from the grouchy old man that owns the stores daughter. Mary is a bit on the chubby side but Billy can handle it. (Not my words because my arse is chubby too.)
The thing is? Mary is kinda cool. She knows another one of Billy's kryptonites. Computer coding.
Keep in mind this is the eighties and computer programming is a whole different bag of nuts than it is now. She also tells him about a super cool contest going on where the winner of the best computer game gets a brand new computer (back in the day when those things were the cost of a house) and they get to meet the video game wizard of the time.
So Billy gets himself all worked up, he does have that game of strip poker featuring Christie Brinkley but Alf makes fun of it because her pubic hair is all jacked up. So he takes his second best game, The Impossible Fortress and knows it's a winner.
With Mary's help. (Because she totally is the brains in this operation)
This sounds like a cute book doesn't it? And in some ways it is. It does end up going in a very weird story arc in my opinion, but I'm not the best judge of crap like that.
The thing I am judgey about is if you are going to write a book about the eighties...get your stuff right. I have no clue about all the video game/computery stuff so I'm not judging there. BUT there is a joke made that threw off the whole book. I know the eighties were forever ago.
But you gotta know that some old asshole (namely me) is going to notice when you get something glaringly wrong and there are several things so wrong in this book.
Booksource: Netgalley in exchange for review.