Zero City

So...I really enjoyed this book but would definitely file it under “guilty pleasures.” It was extremely violent, sexual and painfully 90s. Beefcake hero with an eyepatch and “shapely” female lead Krysty. The descriptions of the characters and the extreme sexualization of women were the cringiest parts of this book. Aside from that though, it was a blast to read. I really liked the grimdark world it was set in and how it was built up. The setting was probably the most engaging/intriguing part of the story and aspects of it were genuinely creepy. I don't read a ton of Scifi so it could be that this book is really bad but I'm immune to the cliches.

This is number 52 in a 100+ series, that's crazy! Outside of kids chapter books and comics I didn't really know that was a thing. Would I read the whole series? Probably not, but I wouldn't mind picking up a volume here or there. I'd definitely be interested in reading the first book to have more insight into how this nuclear apocalypse started. It's cool that the cast is built up of people from different eras and races. It seemed weird that one of them was magical (a “mutie”) but if I had had more background coming in it probably would have made more sense. It's weird that this is all I have to compare this to but a lot of this reminded me of dark My Little Pony fanfic (lol). The machine and the tone reminded me of The Rainbow Factory.

Guilty, fun read. Thanks James Axler (or whoever ghost wrote this).