Thomas's review
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
Jane Charlotte is being held in a psychiatric unit and is being questioned about a murder she committed. She tells the doctor the story of her life - kicked out of her house by her mother as a teenager, growing into a life of drugs and poor decisions. In her teens, she has a chance encounter with a serial killer at her school and is saved thanks to the intervention of a secret organization dedicating to fighting evil. From that point on, Jane knows she will one day work for that group.
Although it's twenty years later, she's finally recruited into the organization and begins working for the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons. The department, called Bad Monkeys for short, eliminates evildoers identified by the Cost-Benefits department.
There's a lot more to the story, and I could go into more details, but all the good points of the novel are lost in the complicated, and ultimately disappointing, ending.
In Richard Russo's Straight Man: A Novel, the p...more
Although it's twenty years later, she's finally recruited into the organization and begins working for the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons. The department, called Bad Monkeys for short, eliminates evildoers identified by the Cost-Benefits department.
There's a lot more to the story, and I could go into more details, but all the good points of the novel are lost in the complicated, and ultimately disappointing, ending.
In Richard Russo's Straight Man: A Novel, the p...more
