Audio Book/Science Fiction/Science Fiction Romance
From Goodreads:
Tim
Scott’s Outrageous Fortune marked the debut of one of the most wildly
inventive writers to hit the sci-fi scene in years. Now he returns with a hilarious
yet poignant novel of love, loss, and itinerant appliances.
“New
Seattle Health and Safety. Do not die for no reason.” This is the motto of a
city so obsessed with the danger of sharp corners that it has almost forgotten
how to live. But Huckleberry Lindbergh is about to find his trip to the city
most decidedly unsafe. For a chance encounter leads him into the heart
of a dark conspiracy. And in order to stop it, this former cop is about to do
something so unsafe—so monumentally stupid—that its reverberations will be felt
all the way to the Pentagon.
Soon he
is on the run from more authorities than he has had hot meals, his staunchest
allies a bunch of feral fridges that give new meaning to the words “chill out.”
But sometimes a dose of chaos is just what the doctor ordered, and Huck’s quest
to remain among the living teaches not only him but those around him the true
meaning of survival . . . in all its forms.
This is
another one I would never have finished in book form. Even listening I spent most of the time trying to figure out
what was going on and where the author was going with the story. In the end it is a romance but a
romance with a lot of satire in the story. The world building was unusual. New Seattle had appliances that talked, a mayor who was
using his position to scare the populace into thinking only of safety and our
hero who just stumbled into the whole mess.
This journey never looked like a romance headed to any
destination.. Even so, it was fun to listen
to and I would listen to another of Tim Scott’s books if I ran across one. If
you like satire this book is for you. Just be aware, Love in the Time of Fridges is not your usual Science Fiction story.
Recorded Book published Love in the Time of Fridges by Tim
Scott in 2008.
I'm not a hardcore SFF fan, so this title would have escaped my notice had you not reviewed it! It's sounds strange and awkward and... fun! You didn't mention how you liked the narrator; but I listened to the sample on audible and know he's done some Carl Hiassen novels, so I think I'll add this to my embarrassingly humongous TBL queue! Thank for the review: It's sounds like it's helpful to know that it's ultimately a romance :-)
ReplyDeleteI usually mention the narrator. Since you have listened to him before you know he does a very good job.
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