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|title=Apocalypse Now Now

|author=Charlie Human

|publisher=Century

|date=August 2013

|summary=Apocalypse Now Now is a violent blend of folklore, crime and teenage angst with a protagonist who is extremely unpleasant but whom the reader still grows to care about.

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Baxter Zevcenko is a sixteen year old student in South Africa who believes everything in life is business related and for the sole purpose of increasing his own power. Baxter deals porn at his school and is the leader of a gang of misfits who have carved a niche within the school’s hierarchy out of the student populations need for smut. The group is called the Spider and Baxter believes himself to be the arachnid at the centre of an impressive web with the ability to manipulate and scheme his way to power and riches. His heroes are Rasputin and Machiavelli and we are made aware very early on that as well as being a despicable power hungry megalomaniac he is also quite possibly insane.

Apocalypse Now Now grows into an incredibly exciting and fast paced thrill with characters that are a pleasure to read. Despite finding the narration to be slightly hard work at the beginning it had the desired effect of showing the character maturing and becoming much more human and relatable. This is a very unusual tale that likes to shock but also contains plenty of humour and even some touching moments and is overall a really fun read.

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