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. In the near future not happening presently but to happen shortly Baxter Zevcenko's life is pretty sweet. a common South Africanism relating to the amount of time to elapse before an event occurs. 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 o now now adv. ![]() I can't wait to read his next.Now now adv. The supporting cast is written well, with the important players given enough back story and hints of motives to flesh them out. One of my favourite parts in the middle of the novel is a stutter step in the pacing, done so damn well I still smile thinking of it. The story goes along at a breakneck pace, especially when the wheels start to come off for Baxter and he's exposed to the real world he never even imagined existed. He's taken San Bushman and African gods, parallel dimensions , pop culture, some standard fantasy creatures and Afrikaner mythology, blended them together in who knows what and used the resulting mixture as paint to construct a scary, dark absolutely addicting world for his characters to play in. Baxter is too strange for that to be the main issue. So is this book a straight up urban fantasy where the hero is faced with the dilemma of having to rescue someone he loves? No, not even close. It seemed there is a possibility he really loves her and he wants to rescue her. When his girlfriend, Esme, is kidnapped, he's faced with something strange. A scheming little bastard that uses everybody around him to further his own goals. This is apparent quite quickly in the novel, since he is the main POV throughout. At least for a little while.īaxter is one screwed up kid. Baxter has his booming business, his girl and things are looking rosy for the little crime lord. A little slice of a big cake is a lot better for everybody than no cake at all. Baxter plays the bigger gangs off each other to keep the peace, or at least he tries to. Baxter has assembled his own crew, The Spider, who carved out a niche for themselves supplying the youth of suburban Cape Town with porn in all it's forms. His school has competing gangs who peddle drugs and guns, which is a bit weird. ![]() Human's insane brain rips the carpet that you think you know from underneath you, rolls you up in it and transports you into a strange, twisted world.īaxter is a 16 year old high school student. Cape Town, the mountain and some of the history is present and seems quite similar. Baxter's South Africa definitely isn't the normal South Africa. It's one the few books based mostly in South Africa I've read, which is a damn shame since I enjoyed knowing the lay of the land so to speak. Human's début novel and it was well worth the wait. I was under the impression that the left one was for the USA, sorry about that. I love the RSA one on the right a little bit more, but that's just me. On most books the UK cover is miles better than the US cover, but Joey Hi-Fi did his usual thing and knocked it out of the park. ![]() I've included both the RSA -right- and UK -left- covers for the first time, since this is one of the few books where I like both.
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