I love me a smart-mouthed main character with a gooey middle. Ronin raises an eyebrow."Īt one point, Baxter undergoes a character transformation, and after that, I was all in. Instinctively I stick my leg out and the guy trips, hitting the ground hard. "A guy stumbles past me and I notice an Octogram lanyard peeking out through his jacket. Ronin looks like he has grown organically from within this apartment like fungus, a human-sized version of something you’d find growing under the sink."īaxter is initially skeptical of Ronin's abilities, but soon finds he's more than up for most tasks.
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"I’m pretty sure there are crack dens with better interior design than this place. When his girlfriend disappears, Baxter undergoes a brief crisis of conscience that resolves into Baxter seeking out Ronin, who has a reputation for being able to find weird stuff. If all the re-enactments were directed by Quentin Tarantino." It’s like my sleeping brain is constantly set to the History Channel. "These dreams always end with people being massacred.
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He is currently troubled by headaches and violent dreams, and is blaming his autistic brother, Rafe, who has been drawing a series of increasingly violent pictures. He's like Alex from Family Ties, if Alex was into managing a porn distribution network for school.
Though I protest that it is not actually set during the end of the world as we know it, I thought it was a lot of fun and even unexpectedly charming.īaxter Zevcenko is precocious, with a good head for business. Recently, I pulled it out of the kindle backlog while on vacation. This has been on my TBR for quite a while, largely due to the lack of library access. He's like Alex from Family Ties, i Bananas.ĭelicious, chocolate-covered, frozen summer-camp bananas.
Baxter Zevcenko is precocious, with a good head for business. Though I protest that it is not actually set during the end of the world as we know it, I thought it was a lot of fun and even unexpectedly charming. Delicious, chocolate-covered, frozen summer-camp bananas. 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.moreīananas. Plunged into the increasingly bizarre landscape of Cape Town's supernatural underworld, Baxter and Ronin team up to save Esme. The only man drunk enough to help is a bearded, booze-soaked, supernatural bounty hunter that goes by the name of Jackson 'Jackie' Ronin. Profits are on the rise, the other gangs are staying out of his business, and he's going out with Esme, the girl of his dreams.īut when Esme gets kidnapped, and all the clues point towards strange forces at work, things start to get seriously weird. As the 16-year-old kingpin of the Spider, his smut-peddling schoolyard syndicate, he's making a name for himself as an up-and-coming entrepreneur. Profits are on the rise, the other gangs are staying out of his business, a Neil Gaiman meets Tarantino in this madcap, wildly entertaining journey into Cape Town's supernatural underworld.īaxter Zevcenko's life is pretty sweet. Neil Gaiman meets Tarantino in this madcap, wildly entertaining journey into Cape Town's supernatural underworld.
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