Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia

Zoey Ashe is twenty-three, still running the criminal empire her father left her, and still being steered by staff who know the business far better than she does. She describes it as trying to pilot a battleship while tied to the propeller.

The city of Tabula Ra$a is holding its annual music festival, which reliably precedes its annual drunken riot, and this year something considerably worse is moving underneath both. It is bigger and stranger than anything Zoey has faced, and she has to deal with it in a place where every camera is live and the crowd is grading her performance in real time.

The third Zoey Ashe novel from Jason Pargin: near-future satire that is very funny about technology and entirely serious about what a permanent audience does to people.