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The Last Condo Board of the Apocalypse (Kelly Driscoll #1)

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I went into this book looking for a funny, sarcastic lead character, and I wasn't disappointed. Yes, the book had a few problems (character development wasn't great, the plot could have been tighter, and there were too many things just left hanging), but I enjoyed the humor a lot. The short chapters made the book fly for me. I like it didn't take itself too seriously, and as long as you understand all this, I think you will enjoy it. A strong main character was a plus, and making her a bounty hunter who hunts vampires, while trying to avert the apocalypse, was what caught my eye in the first place, so the absolute zaniness of it all was just icing on the cake for me.

4/5 stars.

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DNF @ 70%

Alright, I just want the record to show, that I really did try. When I DNF books I usually stop before 20%, so I think I did really good. If I get this far though, I usually finish.... It's just there I was at 9pm groaning over how I had no idea what was going on and my skimming wasn't working because I'd be even more lost. Usually if I am trying to get through a book I'm not liking I can skim and get the basic parts... NO I'd go back read a page again and still be totally confused.

I do enjoy random humor and ridiculous concepts even, which this book was full of. Angels are banished to a luxurious condo. Yet, I personally need something to hold on to-- I need a straight man (not gender but comedy-wise) who is going WTF?! or some explanation : are these monsters normal? does the world know there is an apocalypse coming? do cops not investigate missing pizza delivery boys?
I need to know.

I also would like the setting to be described so I know what I'm looking at. Is there modern tech-- oh that gets answered later, yes there are cellphones-- so why are they using a tube to deliver messages? Where is Pothole City? Is it in the US? Is it in a desert? Also, what does Kelly Driscoll look like, because her eyes are mentioned as in "hide her unusual eye color" and either I accidentally missed that or it wasn't mentioned.

I feel like I'm really hating on this book, and I don't want to be. It was an interesting concept and at like chapter 5 I did kinda get into it... I probably left the book right as it was about to explain everything, but unfortunately, I stopped caring :(

Me and this book, just didn't connect. T_T

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No, I did not enjoy this book. It was witty and fast passed, but I felt like I had been dropped into a new world without a map. Some things were recognizeable, and the premise was neat, but I didn’t appreciate things he execution.

If you enjoy fast wit, this might be for you. Not enough detail or background information for my taste.

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http://satalyte.com.au/2017/03/book-review-last-board-apocalypse-nina-post/

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"When hundreds of fallen angels and dimension-hopping monsters take over a highrise condo building, a down-on-her-luck bounty hunter must team up with an unlikely group of allies to prevent the apocalypse."

Reading The Last Condo Board of the Apocalypse (hereafter referred to as TLCBOTA) is somewhat akin to having a carpet whipped out from under you, rapidly and repeatedly. It's a madcap dash through Pothole city, where magical creatures and demons roam around and have petty fights with their exes. In Pothole city, Single-Purpose angels (SPs) fulfill very specialised roles (the angel of returning small birds to their owners, the angel of 3am, the angel of HVAC Units and so on), and will only eat CluckSnacks snack foods (Cluck Snack P’nut Butt’r Chunks - ‘For Ferrets, Not Dogs’).

And at luxury condo Amenity Tower, fallen angels attend condo board meetings to sort out the pizza delivery issue, vote on whether Deathworms should be allowed in the building (they make great pets, but the shrieking is horrible), and make plans for their apocalyptic escape. Bounty hunter (and master of disguise) Kelly Driscoll has 2 days to infiltrate Amenity Tower, prevent the apocalypse, and maybe flirt a little with that handsome Angel of Destruction.

TLCBOTA is very strange, and very funny - it's extremely surreal, offbeat humour can be a little hard to keep up with (plot points whizz by like SPs on a CluckSnack overdose, conversations take extreme left-turns and in general logic shakes its head dolefully and hides in the bathroom so it doesn't have to be involved in this). It's messy and chaotic and just plain oddball, but it's worth it. The whole experience is like a Discworld fever-dream, or perhaps Jasper Fforde writing on just a wee bit of LSD.

This is definitely not going to be everyone's cup of tea, but for fans of whacked-out humour, lighthearted storytelling and a bit of a detective story hidden in the middle, TLCBOTA is definitely a great way to spend an afternoon.

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DNF @ 20%

I didn't want to quit on this not only because it's an ARC but because all the reviews said it was so unique and dry and funny and that's totally my thing but honestly.. whatever they are getting out of this, I'm not. I can't deny it's unique as hell (hah) but Post takes it beyond my realm of understanding. Never in that first twenty percent did I ever get a sense of.. why. Or even what. For any of it. This feels like coming into the middle of a book series and trying to navigate something complicated and weird and yet this was her debut.

I wish this had worked for me but not even the fact that I am a condo owner was giving me a leg up on this one.

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