Beware the Dog by Dominique MondesirMy rating: 1 of 5 stars
This is a 1.5-star review. I'm being charitable.
Our mild-mannered protagonist is tasked with delivering a memory stock. He boards a rocket ship. It gets raided by pirates. But they are the "nice" kind of pirates. He swallows the stick. Instead of gutting him, they take him along.
He later attempts to escape his captors while drinking with them at a dive bar. He ends up on the floor of a very poorly maintained restroom. His captors get into a gunfight. None of them die. They escape the bar and pile into a car.
In the post-adrenaline-high, our hero and one of his captors (the one girl in the crew who is also easy on the eyes) end up snuggling up together in the back of the car. While he is still soaked in the residuals from the floor of that very poorly maintained restroom.
Many miles and many chapters later, he finds her in his bed. Because...of course he does.
Wish fulfillment fantasy. Many spelling/grammar issues. Written to be made into a movie rather than read as a serious book. Several instances where characters repeat information that the reader already knows. Then there is a bag of clothes that mysteriously appears after our protagonist has been through various assaults, rapid escapes, and other events where picking up a bag is neither convenient to the plot nor actually mentioned in the text.
I made it 29% through the book before theoretically hurling it across the room in a manner purportedly reminiscent of Dorothy Parker.
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