Review: The title accurately describes this book.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 2, 2013
The book begins with Mathew Jester waking up stoned next to his girlfriend, Jennifer. He is due in court that day over some lawsuit. Later when he returns home, his girlfriend is dead and the police think that he killed her.  Soon, Jester manages to break free of police custody and is on the run. He hides on a farm, at first, and meets the farmer; who turns out to be a psycho who straps Jester to a bed and prepares to torture him. Of course, Matthew escapes and continues his mad run from the police. All the while he doesn’t know what’s going on. Eventually he runs into Charlie, someone who is supposed to be a friend, and learns that the whole thing is a set up. Some wealthy and connected people framed him for murder so they could televise it on a secure server and take bets. Matthew asks for Charles’ help, but Charles betrays him leaving him locked in a hotel with a bunch of hitmen.The title accurately describes the book: stupid. Matthew Jester is a complete prick and an arrogant jerk who somehow managed to become wealthy. I had no emotional connection to his character at all. He cares for no one and nothing, except Jennifer, but she dies. Also, he seems to have no intelligence. The police want him for murder. He knows it’s a frame job. But instead of trying to solve his girlfriend’s murder, or learn what happened, he just frantically runs away hoping that maybe he’ll wake up and it will all be a dream. The other thing I did not get was the group of men who set the whole thing up so they could take bets on how Jester would act. Why would they do this? How long have they been doing this? None of that was really explained in the book. The ending was pathetic as well and proves you can’t trust anyone.The writing was not well done. It bored me most of the time and many of the dialogue scenes were just overly long , and added nothing to the story. The narrative read more like a to do list than anything else.  Mostly, there was no point to this story. I cannot recommend it.