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Charlie Human
“Lauren Beukes meets Neil Gaiman” in this twisted urban fantasy about a high school rebel, his bounty hunter companion, and their high-stakes adventures through Cape Town's supernatural underworld (WIRED) Baxter Zevcenko’s life is pretty sweet. He’s making a name for himself as the kingpin of his smut-peddling high-school syndicate, the other gangs are staying out of his business, and he’s dating the girl of his dreams, Esme. But when Esme gets kidnapped, things start to get seriously weird, and the only man drunk enough to help is a bearded, booze-soaked, supernatural bounty hunter that goes by the name of Jackson ‘Jackie’ Ronin. Plunged into the increasingly bizarre landscape of Cape Town’s supernatural underworld, Baxter and Ronin team up to save Esme. On a journey that takes them through the realms of impossibility, they must face every conceivable nightmare to get her back, including the odd brush with the Apocalypse.
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Author
Charlie Human
Pages
320
Publisher
Titan Books (US, CA)
Published Date
2015-04-14
ISBN
1783294752 9781783294756
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"My favorite Genre is urban fantasy, and this fits the bill. But it was a struggle for me to get through it. The main character, Baxter has no redeeming characteristics. It is nearly 100 pages into the book before there is even the smallest thing to like about Baxter and even then, throughout the rest of the book he is a smug little asshole. The dialog is stilted enough that it pulled me out of the story several times, and he bad guys are very flat.<br/>It is set in South Africa, which is a culture I know next to nothing about, and while I usually enjoy being exposed to different cultures in my reading, the other difficulties I had with this book negated that. <br/><br/>I originally picked the book up because I was interested in reading the next book in the series, "Kill Baxter", but now I'm not so sure I want to."
Stacy Davis
