Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
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Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
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Christy Romano
About this listen
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 had 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.Listeners also enjoyed...
Loved it
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I’m still a bit confused by Zoe’s reference to her time in the beginning though!!
Brilliant
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Hilarious, random and gripping
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I was expecting a Differently Morphous style book with a sort of superhero/villain Men In Black squad. There was nothing like this. The "superhero" was basically non-existant in that role and the MIFS weren't negiotating middlemen but were protagonists fighting against the villains. Read the blurb on Amazon or Goodreads rather than on Audible for a better idea of what this book it about.
Having said that, despite not being what I expected this book was a bundle of fun. The protagonist is a bit of a wet flannel at times but the rest of the cast were strong enough characters to overcome that. You want the protagonists to win. The plot makes some amount of sense. There's a sprinkling of humour and jokes even if not all of them land. All in all this is a good, fun book and the narration was good too.
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great world and characters but exhausting villan
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Bravo wong.
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Not my normal fix
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I loved it.
It is nuts. The world is cruel and full of insane people.
One trailer park raised young woman gets sucked into it and she rises up to it.
A diamond in the rough that keeps on taking punches and not stopping.
There are soo many good things to say that there is no point.
This is Fight Club, Batman and Kickass.
BRILIANT!
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fun listen
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What did you like most about Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits?
action packed with moments of totally unexpected hilarity that sideswipes you. I also loved the fact that Wong wasn't trying to be realistic about ANYTHING.Who was your favorite character and why?
Had to be Zoey, she isn't a cookie cutter perfect super model supermodel in disguise type, she's the most real and most genuine character I've come across in a long time. She's overweight, she hasn't had the luxury of a dental plan, she's just plain awesome.What does Christy Romano bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
She's a good reader, none of her character voices put me off, interrupting the flow of the story, please get her reading more books!Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
if you mean pmsl then yes, but teary eyed? hellz no!Any additional comments?
The book, while shorter than I usually listen to, seemed to last longer than I was expecting as it was so very action-packed. So it 'took forever' in a good way. Wong has a fantastic sense of humour that pokes fun at the nasty voyeuristic side of human nature and the superficiality that goes hand in hand with it. The Coyote/Hyena/Piranha being a great example. This book is definitely on my re-listen list!Hilarious and totally ridiculous
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