A review by leelah
Koko Takes a Holiday by Kieran Shea

4.0

4 stars

This book is cray cray.

Koko is ex-mercanary who went of the grid and she's hiding on The Sixty Island resort....- think something like pleasure island/Fhloston planet from Fifth Element -where she's running a brothel. Suddenly, everyone wants to kill her and the person who put a hit on Koko is her ex-colleague and friend who helped her hide in the first place. Koko teams up with cop who is diagnosed with Depressus, mental condition that force a person to join mass suicide event and they are truying to figure out what's going on and stay alive in the process.
You can pretty much guess, but there is a lot of mind control and mental manipulation experiments; world building is fantastic, but few times it jumped awkwardly from scene to scene which can be distracting if narrator is also changed. :\ And that is tied to another thing- characters' voice is very distinctive with sly undertones and humor can be a bit too dry and cynical in few situations, so if you are not a fan- it can be trouble. :)
Superfast paced, action filled cyberpunk romp I enjoyed great deal.

And that cover...brilliant! :)