Ghost girlfriends, mimic monsters, and sultry welcome to my crazy life running a video store.
The bionic bots that roamed the danger zones cowered before my biomancy, yet the real threat was a little more human.
See, the beautiful poltergeist haunting my mind created a real-life, legally distinct mimic monster, and now it wasn’t just the fabric of reality I had to contend with—it was lawsuits from its parent company, run by a smoking-hot boss lady.
Between that, a cute secret agent on the run (partly my fault), and the boss of Steelheart gunning for my shop (mostly my fault), I really had my hands full.
And I thought my friend Emiko was a handful. At least now I could pick up her fluffy-tailed, pointy-eared body with just a pinky, thanks to my new strength and atom-morphing powers.
But not all problems can be solved with biomancy. Try explaining that to the robot ruler lurking in the shadows. Her calculations? AI + me = supremacy.
This story (and I’m looking back over both volumes thus far) covers a LOT of very intricately woven ground. The main characters suffered loss that lead them to living life in a soulless shell of their former lives. Then a mysterious (and somewhat scary) person shows up, and sets them on a path that will add new members and change their lives in completely unexpected ways. The character dialogue and actions are such that it takes a minute to figure out what the authors are TRULY up to.
This book, and this series is at times somber, at times hilarious, and always challenging, interesting, and intellectually stimulating. Nothing is laid out in a linear fashion - sometimes it takes a scene or two to begin connecting the dots. This isn’t ’slice of life’ by any stretch. This series is on a wholly other level. My deepest respects to Authors Mason and Ranger.
I highly, HIGHLY recommend this book and this series.