My Grading System

A+ = Masterpiece (I hold back on this one.) / A = Great. / A- = Really Good. / B+ = Good. / B = Decent (Serviceable). / B- = Flawed but okay (For those times there's something redeeming about the work). / C+ = Not very good (Skip it). C = Bad. / C- = Awful. / F = Complete Disaster (I hold back on this one too).

Note on Spoilers: I will try to avoid ruining a story by going into too much detail. But if I wish to include some revealing points to my analysis I will try to remember to add a separate spoiler paragraph.

Saturday, March 12, 2016

Emperor Mollusk Versus The Sinister Brain by A. Lee Martinez

I haven’t read a book this funny and kooky in a long time.  What a wacky adventure.  I can’t recommend it enough.  The main character is basically the smartest super villain of all time that just so happens to be a mollusk in a exoskeleton suit and he’s suddenly challenged by a new villain that believes it's even more smart-- a Brain.   A character as egotistical as Mollusk would usually drive me crazy but Martinez finds a way to make him enduring as well as hilarious.  Comedy is hard to do and in the genre of science fiction, in my opinion, even more challenging.  Martinez succeeds in every way.   Grade: A
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