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Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits: A Novel
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits A Novel
Author: David Wong
ISBN-13: 9781250097750
ISBN-10: 1250097754
Publication Date: 10/4/2016
Pages: 384
Rating:
  • Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
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4.5 stars, based on 1 rating
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Book Type: Paperback
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virago avatar reviewed Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits: A Novel on + 267 more book reviews
So I say this everytime I review a book by this author, this was insane!

It's set in the not-so-distant future where the cars are self driving, holograms are a normal thing, and most of the world lives their lives either creating or watching a continuous live stream of their mundane or extreme existences.

Zoe gets caught up in a mess of her late absentee father's making. There's his crew, the suits, who all wear actual fancy suits and are equivalent to the futuristic mafia. And then there's the evil villian Molech, who's basically a kid with daddy issues and a god complex. He wants to take over Tabula Rasa (and then the world) and pretty much destroy anyone or thing he deems unworthy. The problem is, that Zoe holds the key to either his success or epic failure.

So basically there are people trying to kidnap or kill her, or gain access to the vast fortune her father left behind for her (which includes his company and his "Suits"), or they want to protect her.

There are so many left turns in this story it's almost hard to keep up. The author kept me on the edge of my seat for this one. I was never really sure how it was all going to work out. The most important part of this book was that Zoe's cat survived all of the gunfire, explosions--basically carnage. I'm all about the animals people.

And it wasn't exactly an open or ambiguous ending, but there was definitely the hint of a sequel. I shudder to think what kind of mess Zoe would find herself in in a sequel!