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title: "Skullcrack City"
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# Skullcrack City

**Brand:** jeremy robert johnson
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## Customer Reviews

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    Another Twisted Fantastic Story from JRJ
  

*by D***D on Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2017*

It's been five years since I read "We Live Inside You," JRJ's second collection of short stories. I'd forgotten how much he can get under your skin—I won't go any further with that metaphor. He has this wonderful ability to get you to care about his characters (with exceptions of course), be silent witness to their suffering, and re-assure them that they're still human no matter what.One could say that "Skullcrack City" is an outgrowth of "The League of Zeroes," the opening short story in JRJ's first short story collection, "Angel Dust Apocalypse." But while the body modification elements of "The League of Zeroes" factor into "Skullcrack City" (it's not a novel for the squeamish), the novel is so much bigger. "The League of Zeroes" is actually the origin story for Buddy the Brain, a minor character in the novel—the two doctors from the novel appear in a limited fashion in the short story.JRJ's writing style shifts fluidly in "Skullcrack City" as the protagonist, S.P. Doyle, changes. The Doyle we meet in the Prologue struck me as sinister. He hardly seemed like the guy we were supposed to be rooting for. But then the story proper starts and we meet the Hex-addicted Doyle. The guy is a total mess, spiraling out of control with paranoid fantasies, and it shows up in the narrative. You're not sure what's real and what's hallucination as one sentence runs head on into the next. And just when you think he can't go any further, he crashes as his paranoid fears are confirmed. But we're only a third of the way through the book.In the middle third, the Hex is purged from his system, but Doyle struggles like a newly hatched chick as his body returns to normal and he awkwardly tries to grow into the would-be hero role. The narrative slows down to a manageable pace with periods of introspection, letting the reader catch their breath. But it's also punctuated by episodes of violence to prevent reader complacency and prod Doyle out of episodes of navel gazing.In the final third, Doyle is forced to adapt or die. His struggle to survive forces him to shed the awkward persona and stand for something. As certainty of purpose kicks in, a calm settles over Doyle. There's a sense of purpose now. As the world teeters on the edge of insanity and terrible monstrosities, it is Doyle who's now the rational one. We recognize the guy from the Prologue as the story has come full circle.While this is standalone novel that eliminates any chance of sequels, I'd still like to make a request for more JRJ novels. Please.

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    Bruce Sterling and Douglas Adams Had A Crack Baby, and She's Writing Her Way to Freedom
  

*by M***H on Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2015*

Jeremy Robert Johnson has been a tour de force in the Bizarro scene for many years. Before this he was well known for his brilliant short stories (collected in Angel Dust Apocalypse and We Live Inside You). His writing is twisted, dark, hilarious, and touching, all at once. So when LF published his first full-length novel, I knew I had to devour it. And sure enough, Skullcrack City delivers on the promise of his earlier work.The novel centers on Doyle, a banker on a mission to bring down the banks from the inside. Fueled by the latest wonder drug Hex, a drug that makes its users see through time and space and gives them huge boners, he dives deep into the dark worlds of extreme body modification and corporate banking to uncover a plot to elevate a few to godhood by wiping out the rest of humanity.This is really brilliant work, canonical Bizarro, and arguably should be part of the Cyberpunk canon as well. It deserves five stars for that.I had to knock off a star for Dara, Doyle's sidekick, who frankly strikes me as a collection of tropes. I know JRJ can write women better than this, as he did in his short story States of Glass, so Dara is a bit of a disappointment.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Brilliantly insane!
  

*by S***I on Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2019*

A fun futuristic action romp that takes you through one outrageous set piece after another. A sort of Island Of Dr Moreau meets The Matrix as written by William Gibson, only much much cooler! I could not possibly begin to explain all the different elements that make up this novel-so many gonzo ideas that should never come together and work as a whole, yet Johnson somehow make it all work, and work brilliantly. So many genres represented here, from science fiction to horror, to cyberpunk. There’s also humor aplenty in the middle of all the death and destruction, and a great love story to boot. Jeremy Robert Johnson is the real deal! If you loved Entropy In Bloom, a brilliant genre mashing cornucopia of ideas and one of my favorite books of the year, you’re sure to love this.

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