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Code Name: Kawaii: A Novel
The women of Task Force Ten aren't happy about their newest recruit, Kiki Claymore. She doesn't like taking orders, is terrible with a gun, and probably got the job through her family. Worse, a mole is relaying their every move to a group of international terrorists.
Kiki feels in over her head, and wants to quit. But it turns out her instincts are better than she thinks. While the rest of Task Force Ten plays it safe, she dives into the middle of the action. A great idea. Until she ends up an accomplice to terrorist thugs. Ready to unleash a nuclear holocaust over Europe.
Romance, conspiracy and international intrigue have a new name… and that name is Kiki Claymore. Don’t miss any of her thrilling adventures in the enigmatic world of global espionage!
From Inside The Novel...
Digby waved the remote. “Let the arm go around you.”
Kiki shot him a suspicious look, but she still nodded.
The robot stretched its arm over. Then it positioned its body to lie beside her. It felt like an awkward date in high school. “Hey baby,” came the robotic voice. “Why don’t we spoon?”
Kiki burst out laughing.
“What’s so funny?” asked Digby. He wasn’t amused.
“Yeah, baby, what’s so funny?” said the robot.
Kiki laughed even harder.
“This is the most significant advance in mankind’s history. It is the result of years... no, decades of hard work. It has not been perfected just for you to get the giggle fits.”
Kiki calmed down. “Okay, are you serious about this? What the hell is it? I thought robots were used to build cars and microwaves.”
Digby stood up. He looked like he was about to give a speech. “This is the world’s first robotic sexual harassment simulator.”
Kiki rolled her eyes. “It’s a sex robot. Built by nerds in Japan. Who are afraid to talk to women.”
“It’s a simulator. It’s used for training our intelligence agents on how to take advantage at the right time.”
Kiki took a closer look. The thing was certainly creepy.
“It’s programmed with over three hundred different sex-hungry male personality types. From Syrian diplomat—” Digby pressed a button on his remote. “To City of London hedge fund manager.”
Kiki feels in over her head, and wants to quit. But it turns out her instincts are better than she thinks. While the rest of Task Force Ten plays it safe, she dives into the middle of the action. A great idea. Until she ends up an accomplice to terrorist thugs. Ready to unleash a nuclear holocaust over Europe.
Romance, conspiracy and international intrigue have a new name… and that name is Kiki Claymore. Don’t miss any of her thrilling adventures in the enigmatic world of global espionage!
From Inside The Novel...
Digby waved the remote. “Let the arm go around you.”
Kiki shot him a suspicious look, but she still nodded.
The robot stretched its arm over. Then it positioned its body to lie beside her. It felt like an awkward date in high school. “Hey baby,” came the robotic voice. “Why don’t we spoon?”
Kiki burst out laughing.
“What’s so funny?” asked Digby. He wasn’t amused.
“Yeah, baby, what’s so funny?” said the robot.
Kiki laughed even harder.
“This is the most significant advance in mankind’s history. It is the result of years... no, decades of hard work. It has not been perfected just for you to get the giggle fits.”
Kiki calmed down. “Okay, are you serious about this? What the hell is it? I thought robots were used to build cars and microwaves.”
Digby stood up. He looked like he was about to give a speech. “This is the world’s first robotic sexual harassment simulator.”
Kiki rolled her eyes. “It’s a sex robot. Built by nerds in Japan. Who are afraid to talk to women.”
“It’s a simulator. It’s used for training our intelligence agents on how to take advantage at the right time.”
Kiki took a closer look. The thing was certainly creepy.
“It’s programmed with over three hundred different sex-hungry male personality types. From Syrian diplomat—” Digby pressed a button on his remote. “To City of London hedge fund manager.”
440 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 17, 2013
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January 4, 2017
Kiki Claymore, granddaughter of a famous spy, is recruited to join Task Force 10, a group of female secret agents who are sent on the most dangerous missions. Resistant to authority, and lousy with weapons, she’s an unlikely recruit, and worse, there’s a mole in the organization exposing the task force’s operations to terrorist, and the other members of the team aren’t too thrilled with her presence.
Code Name: Kawaii by Shane O’Brien MacDonald is a pretty fast-paced action novel with not one, but ten strong female characters. A bit one-dimensional in many ways, but for fans of the action genre, they do what action heroes are supposed to do—they kick butt.
An interesting novel, with an interesting theme, but technically a bit flawed. First, the characters, Ridley, Kiki’s boyfriend, and Digby, her boss, are introduced in the same chapter by last name only, and not clearly differentiated, which caused me to have to turn back a few pages to sort them out. There are a few grammatical glitches: just one example, ‘only her and Ethel were,’ instead of only ‘she and Ethel were.’ Finally, while choppy prose is okay for fight and action scenes because it conveys action, the entire book is a bit choppy. There are places, for instance, when Kiki is meeting with her grandfather just before he’s killed, when a slower pace would have increased the impact of part where he’s killed.
I give the author high marks for coming up with an interesting theme, but I can only give him three stars for execution.
Code Name: Kawaii by Shane O’Brien MacDonald is a pretty fast-paced action novel with not one, but ten strong female characters. A bit one-dimensional in many ways, but for fans of the action genre, they do what action heroes are supposed to do—they kick butt.
An interesting novel, with an interesting theme, but technically a bit flawed. First, the characters, Ridley, Kiki’s boyfriend, and Digby, her boss, are introduced in the same chapter by last name only, and not clearly differentiated, which caused me to have to turn back a few pages to sort them out. There are a few grammatical glitches: just one example, ‘only her and Ethel were,’ instead of only ‘she and Ethel were.’ Finally, while choppy prose is okay for fight and action scenes because it conveys action, the entire book is a bit choppy. There are places, for instance, when Kiki is meeting with her grandfather just before he’s killed, when a slower pace would have increased the impact of part where he’s killed.
I give the author high marks for coming up with an interesting theme, but I can only give him three stars for execution.
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