The books that got picked for the last couple of books clubs have been pretty bad in my opinion. I ended up not even caring to finish either one of them.
May-
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Category: Adult
Genre: Sci-fi, Fantasy, Satire
Content: Strong Language
An LA taco truck chef is transported to a
fantasy realm where bad reviews are the least of her worries in this
cozy culinary LitRPG adventure.
For Renee “Nay” Favreau, food
is life. She’s the owner of a Los Angeles taco truck who dreams of
becoming a respected chef and expanding her fleet, and whose greatest
enemy is an unhappy food critic. Always hunting for her next great dish,
the search eventually leads her to a near-fatal encounter with an
interdimensional spider.
Awaking in a strange world where words
appear before her eyes, a talking tentacle befriends her, and people are
trying to kill her, Nay learns she has the ability to become an one of
the special chefs who prepare the magical meals that power the enigmatic
Marrow Eaters.
Soon, Nay is working in a remote village, where
she wins the hearts—and stomachs—of the locals. But when evil threatens
to destroy the place, she’ll have to employ all her wit and newfound
skills to survive and save her new friends . . .
DNF @64%
I read this for book club. I'm
not a fan of this genre but even so, I feel like this one was worse than
most. I didn't like the main character and I found the story to be
pretty boring. On the plus side, there were lots of book related food
items to serve at book club. Unfortunately, I forgot to take photos.
June-
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
Category: Adult
Genre: Sci-fi, Fantasy, Satire
Content: Lots of F bombs
Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is
more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover
who's running the place.
Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A
divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings
want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank
will approve his loan.
Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie.
But
becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits.
Jake had enemies, and now they're coming after Charlie. His uncle might
have been a stand-up, old-fashioned kind of villain, but these are the
real thing: rich, soulless predators backed by multinational
corporations and venture capital.
It's up to Charlie to win the
war his uncle started against a league of supervillains. But with
unionized dolphins, hyperintelligent talking spy cats, and a terrifying
henchperson at his side, going bad is starting to look pretty good.
In a dog-eat-dog world...be a cat.
DNF @57%.
One of my least favorite things I've read so far this year. I liked the cats but that's about it. The main character is not very bright, and comes across as kind of a loser. We have to follow along as everything gets explained to him. It was like he was floating around in the middle of everything that was happening but made no real difference to the story himself. I guess that makes sense since he seemed incapable of making any real difference in his own life.
One of the things that annoyed me most about this book was the way the dead uncle's assistant tried to rationalize said uncle's villainy. The main character's uncle was not less villainous than the other villains in this book. His tax payer funded villainy is just as bad, and saying he didn't care about money because he only kept 5 million of his trillions liquid is disingenuous.
It seems this was trying be some sort of satire or humorous commentary on capitalism but in my opinion it failed miserably. The whole thing felt juvenile, like something a 12 year old boy would find funny, which is exactly what I thought about the other book I tried to read by this author, The Android's Dream. This book had me bored and repeatedly rolling my eyes at the stupidity.
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