Its kinda hard to actually describe what this book A Highly Unlikely Scenario Or A Neetsa Pizza Employee's Guide To Saving The World. This was written by Rachel Cantor and I would say its a science fiction/comedy. It is a good story with a very bright cover that if you were in a book store you'd at the very least pick it up to see what its about. But even after reading the description on the back you'll still go “...the hell?”
The world that this story takes place
in was hard for me to grasp completely. It wasn't until halfway
through the book I stopped trying to imagine the strange foods and
clothes that everyone was wearing. Cantor is very descriptive with
her writing but at some points its a bit too much. The Brazen Head (a
crazy form of Google it seems) was particularly hard for me to
picture. Everyone wears crazy ass clothes and weird hair and that
didn't help. When I read I always put an actor as the main character
or just give up and make a new human being. With this I couldn't do
that.
The main character Leonard work for a
company called Neetsa Pizza. His job is a Listener. He's the one that
answers customer complaints but he actually does far more than that
including consoling and counseling them through their complaints. He
sits in his white room in his uniform and tries to be the best
Listener he can be. He is fine with his job, only leaving the house
to pick up his nephew Felix halfway from school. His sister Carol
leaves the house every night dressed in all black for her “book
reading” group.
In this world various food companies
fight for customers with a strange mixture of religion thrown in.
Everyone wears their beliefs on their sleeves and there are attacks
on rival companies and a Chipmunk Patrol in the streets. Its a lot to
take in.
I would suggest this book to people
though after I was finished with it I thought it would have worked
better as two books perhaps. There is a time travel aspect that I
would have liked to read more about because it felt kinda rushed when
it happened. Hopefully there is a sequel in the works because the
characters and the mythology of this book is great.
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