Review: Nope, don't think so.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2014
This author can't decide what he's writing. The cover and title suggest it's a goofy whimsical kinda plot. The actual book is none of those. It has at least five savage and violent attacks under ludicrous and ill-explained circumstances -- the kinds of things you'd expect in dark, sadistic thrillers -- and very little humor other than the usual give-and-take between our hero Jin and his drinking buds when they meet up in the pub.  And Jin's "helping" talents are pretty thin.The character development for everyone except Jin is limited to their first names. "Hoogah." "Tread." Etc.The author sees himself as the architect of an offbeat, multilayered tale. In fact, his afterword tries to position this title as the first of a trilogy leading up to the solution of a puzzle of some kind.But there's nothing in this book that supports that grand conceit. While I was initially interested in how he'd develop Jin's character, I quickly started skimming, and then flat-out skipping, just to get to the end.