Published by dSdF on March 2019
Genres: Science Fiction, Humor, Humorous, Mystery, Fiction
Pages: 304
Format: eBook
Source: ARC
Michael Duckett is fed up with his life. His job is a drag, and his roommate and best friend of fifteen years, Stephanie Dyer, is only making him more anxious with her lazy irresponsibility. Things continue to escalate when they face the threat of imminent eviction from their palatial 5th floor walk-up and find that someone has been plastering ads all over the city for their Detective Agency.
The only problem is: He and Stephanie don’t have one of those.
Despite their baffling levels of incompetence, Stephanie eagerly pursues this crazy scheme and drags Michael, kicking and screaming, into the fray only to find that they are way out of their depth. They stumble upon a web of missing people that are curiously linked to a sexually audacious theoretical physicist and his experiments with the fabric of space-time. And unless Michael and Stephanie can put their personal issues aside and fix the multi-verse, the concept of existence itself may, ironically, no longer exist.
Today is my stop on the Duckett & Dyer: Dicks for Hire blog tour and I’m incredibly excited to share my review with you all! Thank you to |Storytellers on Tour| and G.M. Nair for the review copy. Do make sure to stop by my fellow hosts, |BooksnBites| and |Knapsack| for their blog tour posts. You also can visit the |tour schedule| to see all the amazing blogs participating in the tour. Don’t forget to enter the giveaway hosted by SoT at the end of this review as well!
Michael and Stephanie (Duckett and Dyer respectively) are both a bit of a mess in their own ways. Michael is a lovable curmudgeon. Life has kicked him a few times. Stephanie has zero interest in being a responsible member of the community, although you have to give her some leeway once learning her back story. She is incredibly funny, has zero filter, and generally marches to the beat of her own strange drum. Their friendship is a bit rocky and watching it evolve throughout the story was a bit of a rollercoaster!
It is hard to describe this book without spoilers, such is the case with a lot of mystery/science fiction blends. Nair did a great job of breakdown the multi-verse aspect of the story so that readers had a rudimentary understanding even if they had no background in physics. Duckett and Dyer’s adventures would be a fun introduction for readers (high school and upward) new to science fiction. It has just the right blend of lovable, relatable characters along with crazy, mind-bending hijinks.
Audience-wise, I honestly think fans of Futurama are going to love this book. I know I did, and I immediately started nagging Mr. B to read it. Bookish comparisons are Space Team by Barry J. Hutchison and Cryptofauna by Patrick Canning.
Laugh-out-loud funny with important notes on how to be a good friend all sprinkled with the shavings of mushrooms. I will definitely be recommending this to anyone who is unfortunate enough to slow down so I can crow at them and. I am now off to pick up the second book and hunker down for some more Duckett and Dyer lunacy!
**I voluntarily read and reviewed a review copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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