Koko Takes a Holiday, by Kieran Shea
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Koko Takes a Holiday, by Kieran Shea
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Five hundred years from now, ex-corporate mercenary Koko Martstellar is swaggering through an easy early retirement as a brothel owner on The Sixty Islands, a manufactured tropical resort archipelago known for its sex and simulated violence. Surrounded by slang-drooling boywhores and synthetic komodo dragons, Koko finds the most challenging part of her day might be deciding on her next drink. That is, until her old comrade Portia Delacompte sends a squad of security personnel to murder her.
Koko Takes a Holiday, by Kieran Shea - Brand: Huber, Hillary (NRT)/ Shea, Kieran
- Published on: 2015-06-30
- Formats: Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x .50" w x 5.25" l,
- Running time: 8 Hours
- Binding: MP3 CD
Koko Takes a Holiday, by Kieran Shea From Booklist *Starred Review* Set five centuries into the future, this first novel begins in a resort complex, the Sixty Islands, where elite brothel owner Koko Martstellar narrowly escapes an assassination attempt. Fleeing to the orbital community known as the Second Free Zone, Koko is astonished to learn that her old friend, Portia Delacompte, is behind the assassination. While Koko is trying to figure that out, Portia is trying to figure out something just as baffling—why she ordered the death of her friend—for her memories concerning the hired hit seem to have vanished. This futuristic wild ride starts out quickly and doesn’t really slow down until it’s over. You would think such a breakneck pace wouldn’t leave much time for character development, but Shea skillfully weaves characterization into dialogue and the thoughts and actions of the people in the novel. The use of the present tense certainly helps make the story feel urgent and immediate, too. We get caught up in Koko’s predicament and are carried along with her as she desperately tries to keep herself alive until she can track down her would-be assassin. Great fun and a fine introduction to an author with a distinctive style. Expect more from Shea, perhaps in several genres. --David Pitt
Review "A fun, action-packed, page-turner." - SFF Punk"If you’re looking for a fun, violent, blood-and-gore sci-fi romp, you should check it out." - Pixelated Geek"Shea just keeps the action and plot hooks coming." - Hey Poor Player "Kieran Shea's first novel is action-packed, fast-paced, violent, and full of cyberpunk fun. It's a brilliant ride that makes for a quick read, perfect for summer vacation." - Daily Crate"Personally, I can’t wait to see Koko Martstellar in another book soon. If it’s even half as good as Koko Takes A Holiday it’ll be another hellacious ride I want to take." - Pop Cults"The sheer breakneck speed of Koko Takes a Holiday, and the pseudo-cyberpunk posturing of Shea’s prose, are more than enough to propel you through this book cover to cover." - Giant Freakin Robot"Plenty of explosions, bullets, wise cracks, and surprises will leave you wanting more. And the best news is that Koko the Mighty will be out in Summer 2015. Yippee-Ki-Yay… this book completely rocks." - Geek Dad"An extremely fast-paced chunk of science fiction space operetta with attitude...Shea is a name to look out for, and I can only see his work getting better and better." - Adventures in SciFi Publishing "Fans of far out there science fiction works similar to what movie fans would expect from a Quentin Tarantino flick will feel right at home." - BGG Magazine"It’s no secret that I loved Kieran Shea’s debut." - My Bookish Ways"This book looks absolutely bonkers, and it’s one that we’re itching to read." - BuzzFeed Community"Koko Takes a Holiday is a nonstop, bloody thrill ride with the all the subtlety of a rocket launcher, and I loved every minute of it. And the ending? Well, you’ll see-it’s a jawdropper. Kieran Shea will blow you away, promise. More Koko please!!" - My Bookish Ways"Reminiscent of Takeshi Kovaks from Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon with a dash of Tank Girl attitude, Koko is memorable character. The violence is quite extreme, so the squeamish should probably look elsewhere, but this is a fun gender reversal of your typical shoot-em-up" -Library Journal "Wild ride....breakneck pace...great fun" – Booklist starred review
About the Author Kieran is a sailor, chef, and crime writer -- Koko is his debut novel, but his crime and mystery short fiction has been published widely online and in journals like Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.
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35 of 36 people found the following review helpful. Wow, what a mess, and yet still a page-turner. By Js Such promise here: a kinetic plot and strong female character, and yet, the list of sins grows. Four stars for forward energy, two stars for a load of flaws. Paradoxically, I am going to go on about all this because in some ways I like the book a lot. Thanks, Mr. or Ms. Shea, and I apologize, but next time, have friends read the first draft and give you some tough love.Koko is on the run, chased by the Bad Lass for some unknown transgression. A good basic plot and what's not to like about that?But Koko is a retired Merc, and inexplicably, some kind of super-soldier. I say inexplicably because this petite be-studded person drinks, drugs and smokes, and stopped working out years ago. Ah, but when she is attacked by a super-star of a bounty hunter, "her instincts kick in" and also, she has seems to have a very sharp elbow. That is the extent of our information about her only hand-to-hand fight in the book, which is described after the event. The women hunting her are described as amazingly capable, but none of this shows in the brief fight scenes. I'm up for violence. Heck, Josh Bazell's "Beat the Reaper" is one of my favorite books. But action scenes are a major flaw.After a fetishistic description of obtaining, naming, and cinching on a plethora of weapons, fights can really be described as "Koko shoots and hits her mark while her opponents miss". Whenever a weapon does its work, there is ALWAYS bisection or explosion or decapitation or pulping-- also blood and intestines.Nobody in this story is particularly likeable. Most critically, Koko is a conscienceless murderess. At one point she shoots two maintenance workers who get in her way (turning them into pulp, of course) and her reaction to remonstration is to say: "like I should care?"Almost all the women are evil sociopaths with the exception of a girl at a service desk who seems pleasant enough, despite the waffle stud on her tongue making her lisp. Almost all the men are some combination of physically flawed: fat, old, hairy, jowly, odoriferous. Also:, bi or homosexual, ineffectual, fluttery, venal, hysterical, stupid, timorous, and/or bad shots. As an exception, Jedediah Flynn, the "love interest" has nice puppy eyes, and there is a cook in a seafood restaurant who comps them a bottle of saké; he seemed OK.The science and physics of this world? There are none. Somehow there are "suborbital" floating cities. They seem to be suborbital in the sense that blimps and airplanes are suborbital. There are "hover tables" but if you want to descend from a height you rappel. Garbage scows (called "frigates" for some non-reason) are lumbering and yet can knock passengers off their feet with bursts of acceleration. Despite internal contradictions at various points, the author avoids explaining how things work, which is actually a good thing: not as much for pedantic nitpickers like me to fuss about. the story is more about Koko and her milieu than about science. Fair enough.And speaking of the world Koko lives in, Holy Smokes! Makes the Aztec Empire seem like the Amish. Violence, sex, and self-interest seem to rule this society owned and run by corporation.. Fair enough in a primitive society, but how is it supposed to work in this future world that supports sophisticated technology and fancy resorts? I mean, would you work for a boss who apparently has the right to shoot you if displeased? Could a bounty-hunting team really work together when they have the avowed intention of killing each other once the job is done to keep all the money? The junior exec in fact, never even intends to make good on that bounty, instead intending to hire MORE killers to kill the killers to save money. How does that work in the long run?Murder: you know how in Ang Lee's movie version of "The Hulk" he kept changing size depending on the scene? In KTAH murder is like that. Sometimes it seems like a misdemeanor: janitors come in and clean up while you fill out a form about the mess, or you drag the bodies out back and burn them as a sanitation measure; when the cops show up the next day, you expect maybe a citation, instead of a surprise attempt on your life. But other times you have to run for your life and contemplate offing witnesses because the police will be swarming all over your transgression. And because why? because plot.Romance: Jedediah falls for Koko. She reviles him, pushes him around, curses him, and is almost constantly on the edge of killing him... but at one point she does say, and I kid you not: "In case you haven't noticed, I'm a pretty good listener". So of course: Magic. Let's help this rampaging lunatic escape the bounty hunters and the authorities as she kills and hijacks herself toward possible escape.One last thing. When Cruella Delacompte is facing her bosses toward the end of the story, the sentence "hung her head shamefully" should read "hung her head in shame". Also: not "digracefully" but "in disgrace"The last chapter is a good setup for a sequel, neither ending too abruptly nor leaving loose ends. I hope Shea does a sequel and takes more time with it. Again, I'm critical here because there is so much potential, and am ashamed of myself because to paraphrase: "Those than can write, write. Those that can't sit around writing critical reviews."p.s. Great cover art.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Koko is not on Holiday By Paul M. Harmon Kieran Shea's "Koko Takes a Holiday" is a big dose of the Cyberpunk 2020 RPG from the 80's, with some Bourne Identity, a touch of modern noir and a Mark Millar Graphic novel thrown lovingly into a prose package.Koko is an ex-mercenary now living the high life as a bar/cathouse owner(since its male whores does that make it a doghouse?) on the lush resort Islands called The Sixty Islands. It doesn't take long for a minor incident to have Koko running for her life from someone with a lot of power and a personal vendetta against her. The problem is she doesn't know who she pissed off or how?I loved the cover art from the beginning and for me it matches the tone of the book really well. The writing is very clean and clear. It was not oversexed, or over the top violent but certainly for adults with enough action and violence to make it feel like a grown-up book.I loved the fact that all the bad asses in the book were woman, this is without doubt a female character driven book, not just Koko but her antagonists as well and it works very well. There are no Bellas here these are all Buffy's. Think Zoe Washburne meets Hit-Girl and The Bride from Kill Bill. Strong bad-ass woman with bad attitudes and good aim. I point this out because it may be my favorite thing about the book.While the book is not perfect I would be hard pressed to pick something that stood out as bad and it is certainly an impressive debut novel for Kiernan Shea. Koko The Mighty, the next book, is scheduled to come out June of 2015 and I will surely be looking for it. In Fact Shea is an author I may have to keep an on eye on for a while.Pick This up: If you like Cyberpunk with all the action and less techno babble. If your a fan of Popcorn style action Sci-Fi. If you like Graphic Novels in the style of Vertigo Comics, Image and Dark Horse Mini Series, Mark Millar, Brian K Vaughan.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful. This is awesome, rollicking SF. Read it! By MyBookishWays Booze! Orgiastic simulated mass slaughter! More sex than you can shake a, er, stick at, and just about any way you want it! All of this and more can be found at the very adult playground of The Sixty Islands, a manufactured tropical resort. It’s here that Koko Martstellar can be found tending bar and tending her stable of boywhores, as well as enjoying the affection of her favorite, Archimedes. It’s an unorthodox life, but Koko is happy, and glad to be out of the mercenary for hire business. She’s abruptly yanked out of her island idyll when her bar is stormed by a band of ruthless killers, and they seem to be after one thing: Koko. Luckily, Koko hasn’t lost her touch, and she wipes the floor with this pack of predators, but not before racking up plenty of collateral damage. She’s also shocked to find out that the person that’s put out a hit on her is none other than her old mercenary comrade in arms, and, she thought, friend, Portia Delacompte. It’s time for Koko to say goodbye to her bar and run, and she does, with the help of an escape pod she built herself and has managed to keep hidden from her overseers at the CPB (Custom Pleasure Bureau.) Her pod takes her to the Second Free Zone, and eventually she makes her way to a residential barge called the Alaungpaya, and into the orbit of former security deputy Jedidiah Flynn. He could be the key to her survival, and she’s going to need all the help she can get, because a team of hitwomen have been set loose, and they’ve been ordered to terminate Koko once and for all.You’ll most likely want to set aside a few uninterrupted hours for this one, because if you’re like me, once you start it, you’ll want to read it straight through. While on the run, Koko does indeed transform herself to look like the blue haired beauty on the cover, and if she looks tough, well, she is, but she’s also-and this may sound odd-pretty happy go lucky. She’s bewildered by the fact that her old friend seems bent on having Koko killed, but can’t think of why she would do that. The only thing that Koko can think of is an incident that happened quite a while back, but see, Koko is a loyal friend, and would never give up a secret she promised to keep, so you can see why she’s confused as to why Delacompte would be after her. Deeper motives aside, Koko has to stay alive, and luckily Flynn has a little time on his hands, at least until the next mass suicide event called Embrace. Flynn has been diagnosed with Depressus, a condition, he’s told, that has no cure, making suicide the only option. So, Flynn is a great boon to Koko, since his previous position in security gives him access to some areas that Koko never would have been able to penetrate.Koko Takes a Holiday is pretty much run and gun from the get go, but Flynn’s condition, his and Koko’s blooming friendship on the fly, and of course, the secret behind Delacompte’s kill order on Koko, give it depth and elevates it above most SF adventure. The setting is 500 years in the future, and Shea does a great job conveying advanced tech and the “feel” of his far future without slowing down the narrative. I can tell you, Shea’s future is not one I’d want to be a part of. He hints at mass environmental devastation and of course, The Sixty Islands that people go to in order to participate in violent sex and simulated mass slaughter scenarios is really not a future that I find endearing. Maybe that’s what makes Koko so damn appealing though. She’s not a simple girl, but she takes pleasure from life, and from her work. She’s very much a doer, and rolls with the punches as they come, and boy do they. The action sequences are fantastic and fairly brutal at times. You really don’t want to know how warriors “mark” their kills. You just don’t *shudder*. That aside, Koko is a great foil for the dour Flynn and maybe she can give Flynn a much needed kick in the proverbial pants…A bit on Koko’s pursuers: Shea does a great job at fleshing these gals out, and they’re larger than life and very, very scary. There’s one scene in particular where one of the bounty hunters, pretty much in the midst of pursuit, gets a call from her beloved… Eh, I don’t want to give it away, because it’s just so great, and made me laugh out loud. Also, Portia Delacompte makes for one of the most unsettling baddies that I’ve read in a long time. Can Koko and Flynn outrun some of the most brutal bounty hunters in the biz? Will Flynn give into Depressus and seek the final solution? And just why the hell is Delacompte really after Koko? Shea answers all of these questions and does it without any of the stutters that sometimes find their way into debut novels. Koko Takes a Holiday is a nonstop, bloody thrill ride with all of the subtlety of a rocket launcher, and I loved every minute of it. And the ending? Well, you’ll see-it’s a jawdropper. Kieran Shea will blow you away, promise. More Koko please!!
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