Tesser: A Dragon Among Us (Tesser's Series Book 1)

CUSTOMER REVIEW



The only other negative review was jammed at the very back (since that's how Amazon rolls, bad reviews go to the end of the list). I ignored it and hopped on this book, big mistake!

First off, this is definitely Urban Fiction just to be clear. This is a similar flavor of genre to Dresden Files and the Iron Druid series, except it's written for a 13 year old boy.

Did I say written for a 13 year old boy? What I meant to say is, it's written for a crass, sexually frustrated, dumb 13 year old boy.

How dumb? The sort of dumb that thinks Fast and the Furious had good dialog. THAT dumb.

The author constantly comes close to breaking the 4th wall and talking at the audience about multiple modern day "issues" - only to embarrass the reader for having given over money to hear that "GMO's" might be the cause of Global Warming since "no one knows the real cause".... I'm serious, he actually says that. Want more? Oh he also mentions that "the government is corrupt, because of surveillance and all that". Seriously, that's how he talks. Does ANYONE learn anything from an opinion like that?

He also rants against people that marry and have children right out of college. Why? I mean who cares???

Also, every woman is HOT + super horny all the time and they all talk about nothing but sex and men that they're checking out. Seriously, one woman nearly gets raped. She is then rescued, but in spite of how emotionally traumatized she should be, she hugs her NAKED male rescuer (and stranger) in the same dark alley where the rapist is still laying on the ground. Another woman running with her husband leers at the protagonist while running with her husband and nearly runs into a parked car - her husband then gets angry...because these things just happen due to women's insatiable libido and sex gaze. Another woman sees surveillance black and white video of protagonist fighting people in dark alley. She notices how "bad ass his fight moves are" then notices that she's SUPER HORNY (omg time for wet panty check!)....

Then there's the men. There's only 2 acceptable kinds of men listed in book. There are super cool culturally aware nerds that talk like Fast and the Furious characters, then there's super cool and culturally aware "bad ass macho army men"....who also talk like Fast and the Furious characters. Everyone else is either British, or considered scum in some way.

This isn't a fantasy to me. This is a nightmare. If the world ever became this dumb, I wouldn't be long for this world.