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Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits

By: David Wong, Jason Pargin
Narrated by: Christy Romano
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In a prosperous yet gruesomely violent near future, superhero vigilantes battle thugs whose heads are full of supervillain fantasies. The peace is kept by a team of smooth, well-dressed negotiators called The Men in Fancy Suits. Meanwhile a young girl is caught in the middle and thinks the whole thing is ridiculous.

Zoey, a recent college graduate with a worthless degree, makes a reluctant trip into the city after hearing that her estranged con artist father died in a mysterious yet spectacular way. There she finds that her scumbag dad had actually, in the final years of his life, put his amazing talent for hustling to good use: He was one of the founding members of the Fancy Suits and died in the course of his duties. Zoey is quickly entangled in the city's surreal mob war when she is taken hostage by a particularly crazy villain who imagines himself to be a Dr. Doom-level mastermind. The villain is demanding information about Zoe's father when she is rescued by The Fancy Suits. She reluctantly joins their cause and helps finish what her old man started, tapping in to her innate talent for bullshit that she inherited from her hated father. And along the way, she might just have to learn how to trust people again.

©2015 David Wong, Jason Pargin (P)2015 Audible, Inc.
Adventure Crime Fiction Fantasy Fiction Literature & Fiction Science Fiction Superhero Vigilante justice City Comedy

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Fun

Really fun novel. Christy Romano does a great job bringing characters to life in this Audiobook

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Awesome performance

A great future Tech story made awesome by a solid reading performance. Well worth it.

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Like the story, not so much the narrator

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

Not really - wish I'd read the hard copy

Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Christy Romano?

someone with a better narrative voice and doesn't sound like she is reading to a 4 year old

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A really fun novel!

What did you like best about this story?

I loved that the story kept dancing on the line between serious and silly! with some really shocking bits in between

What does Christy Romano bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

Her character voices were spot on, I sometimes forgot that I was only listening to one person

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

This book had me laughing out loud at parts that not only surprised me, but the people sitting behind me on the bus...

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6/10

What would have been a great story was a bit spoilt by an average narration.
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Brilliantly bonkers

I love this authors work, such a unique and talented author. The reader did a fantastic job too.

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Disappointing

I thought I would enjoy this, as I liked other things by this author.
But any genuinely funny or exciting moments were bogged down by long passages of tedium. It's about 50% too long as well.
There was an extended section in the middle that was a make-over scene. It made me cringe so hard I nearly died. That whole section would have been better had the author simply replaced it with "HEY GUYS IT'S OKAY TO CONSIDER THIS CHARACTER F***ABLE NOW"
I couldn't wait for this book to be over.
At least the cat doesn't die.

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