Starter Villain

This book is a lot like a Big Red Vanilla Float soda. It's very good in small doses.

I don't know, I enjoyed big chunks of it pretty thoroughly. I really liked the Illinois of it all. I liked the cats — but there really could have been a lot more of them.

There came a point where I think I got a little tired of all the jokes. I was having a really good time for the first few chapters, and then in the middle was coasting from good joke to a lot of the same stuff over and over again. Then by the end I was really wishing it were about 50 pages shorter. I don't really have a big ask of the story here. I wish it were a little shorter and more about the cats.

Some of the dialogue is pretty bad given the context in which it's appearing. People don't talk like this. Kind of baffling. Still, overall I enjoyed the book.