The book is just plain entertaining. The main character is fussier than I usually like my MC to be, but Joel Leslie pulled off the voices (Jonathan’s voice cracks me up), and soon I was pulled in enough to the strange world of the V+ to know I’d keep going until the book was finished. I’m glad I did.
Parts are dryly entertaining. Others are clearly allegorical (even your little 4th grade random relative could see them, assuming you don’t have them shut up in a literal closet). As someone who grew up in the 80’s and lived in D.C. in the early 90’s, parts of this story genuinely hurt. But mostly this book is just what it claims to be…part creepy, part witty, part suspense, part romance…and all of it well narrated.
The scenes in the subway system? My fav.