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–>I received a free copy of this in exchange for an honest review.
Two people dealing weed hire private security to hold their money, only for two of the guards to decide to start robbing the dealers, setting off an escalating tale of violence and greed.

So right away we're introduced to a character named Donnie Zeus Echo which caused me to groan and think oh boy what did I agree to review here .. I found the characters in this to be just awful, I'm sorry to be so blunt but seriously.

The dialogue was bad, everyone was talking like an edgy imitation of a stereotypical gang banger, just nothing but swears and annoying sexual innuendos, if not just being outright nasty. I simply could not get into a single character in this. I understand not all characters in a story are supposed to likable, but nothing could get me invested in people like this. I like outlaws and bad guy types in other stories, these just didn't work for me. Only LaDon reaches anything tolerable.

This follows these four characters and often has them doing similar things. All of them are separately at a bar, all of them are thinking about getting laid, etc. It felt repetitive at times. Again, I just couldn't get into their way of talking about what they were doing... One character thinks how oranges look like large juicy testicles hanging off the tree, and if I read another thing about “Eye-Rack”...

The setting of California wasn't done too bad, although every character they meet is pretty annoying just as them, and mostly just there for them to rob, use, or have sex with, or all three. The pimp side story was really frustrating, and it wasn't needed to show how LaDon wasn't a terrible person.

The author unquestionably knows how to write, and put together a story, I just didn't like this one. When you can't stand how the characters talk or act it just all ends up painful to get through.