Mojo Rising
1.45/5
A new instantly addictive drug hits the streets in small-town Texas and a mid-level meth dealer first feels the impact on his business – his cook is killed and his bosses are pissed – and then on his personal life. Not only is Juney soon getting a Mojo monkey on his back, his brother missing and Juney has to discover the secret behind Mojo to save both his family and his life.
Thanks to Bob Pastorella, Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, and NetGalley for an advance copy of Mojo Rising.
This is an odd book that never really seems to go anywhere. There is a mystery here: what is Mojo, where does it come from, and how will it influence the drug trade and Juney's family? We sort of find out the answer to one and two, and by sort of, I mean it is mentioned, but never explained, and what the impact of Mojo actually is is never disclosed. In all honesty, this book made very little sense to me. It wasn't particularly well written and the dialogue was awkward. The whole Mojo thing was incomprehensible and left me wondering whether I just missed something. Did anything actually ever happen? If it did, then what actually happened? Maybe it just required a really expanded mind to understand Mojo Rising and I am just too literal and unenlightened to get it. Maybe it was supposed to be an experience? If so, then it failed since I didn't get my mind blown. If it wasn't, I think that Pastorella never really put his money where his outline was. Overall, this short novel was probably better to read than nothing at all, but a cereal box would be more explanatory and equally entertaining.
