Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia (Zoey Ashe #3)

by Jason Pargin

It’s two people lying to an audience that is demanding they lie while also lying to themselves. The whole thing is a dour slog from start to finish.

“We’re designed to focus in on one target, one goal at a time. If too much is going on, it plays against our strengths, just from an evolutionary point of view. Our brains are terrible at multitasking. Juggling threats causes a unique type of stress and most dysfunctional behavior you see today is just humans doing a bad job of managing it.”

Some had identified me as an easy target for bullying and had to be taught that their radar for detecting weakness was badly in need of calibration.”

No, Zoey, Budd died to the most powerful weapon in the known universe: a compelling lie. Don’t ever underestimate it. That is the dragon that sits atop the mountain, the one that threatens to burn the world.”