Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
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Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
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Narrated by:
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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 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.Fun
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Awesome performance
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Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
Not really - wish I'd read the hard copyWho 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 oldLike the story, not so much the narrator
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Brilliantly bonkers
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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 betweenWhat 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 personDid 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...A really fun novel!
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6/10
6/10
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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.
Disappointing
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