Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits

Executive Summary: Do you enjoy sophomoric humor and the victimization of women by cartoon villains? If not, you may want to give this book a pass.

Audiobook: Christy Romano was the bright spot here. I really enjoyed her narration. She did a good job with voices and adding something to what was often at times an overly melodramatic and downright infuriating. I would definitely listen to another book read by her again.

Full Review
This book started out pretty strong for me. I should have been tipped off by an early scene, but I was enticed by the book's description and the thought that this book could be a cross between Blade Runner and maybe the Godfather.

Instead what it turned out to be was an excuse to subject the protagonist to repeated victimization at the hands a variety of boring/cartoonist antagonists. To me the best characters are always much more nuanced than this. Everyone is the hero of their own story, or so the adage goes. Not so here, as Molech and his followers know they are the villains, and they relish in it.

There were parts of this book I enjoyed, especially early on. The ideas of the city of Tabula Rasa and the technology it contained kept me interested for awhile. However once it became clear that their was really little depth to the plot and just a series of cartoonish confrontations, I started to check just how much time I had left in the book.

I feel like there could have been a good book in here, but the story I got instead fell far short of my expectations.