Although I found this book moderately enjoyable, I understand why it might not appeal to many others.

It's packed with pop culture references and infused with a sense of nihilism. The portrayal of the greed and lack of consequences experienced by the ultra-rich 1% is something most of us cannot relate to, which may prevent it from resonating with a wider audience.

While it wasn't a bad read, I likely wouldn't recommend it to many people.

Really enjoyed the erratic nature of storytelling here and was very curious to see how things would turn out.

I DNF’d this book. I unfortunately couldn’t connect to the characters or writing. It wasn’t a bad book, just not for me.

I love a good vampire story and I had high hopes for this one. Unfortunately, the concept and plot had so much potential that was unexplored in narrating. I wanted more but it never delivered.

Elizabeth Holmes but make it vampires. This book was very witty with a lot of pop culture references. I enjoyed the character development or maybe just the characters lack of development which was also fine by me. The pacing felt very weird with a lot of set up and then felt like the ending was cut short.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing an advance copy in exchange for honest feedback

From the blurb, Sucker seemed the perfect book for me. Unfortunately I am really struggling to stay focused, I am 25% in and nothing has happened yet. The main character is quite unlikeable, which is usually not a problem, but in this case I find myself bored by him. Probably not the right book for me at the moment.
DNF at 25%.

* I'd like to thank the author, Anchor and NetGalley for providing this ebook in exchange for my honest review.

The book had me in the beginning but towards the second half it started to get a bit cumbersome to read. The sarcastic tone became too much and overall it just felt a bit too hipster for my liking.

For the longest time, I’ve tried to get into this story, and each time I couldn’t continue beyond about 30%. The humor is targeted towards a very specific group of people, and unfortunately that either doesn’t include me or it’s just not the right time for me to pick it up, I appreciate the early copy and hope the book has been finding it’s readers!

A biting look at the ability of our capitalist society to make money off of anything. Even as you feel the ending coming from a mile away, it still offers some Christopher Moore style humor as it tries to plunge a stake through the heart of the one percent.

I gave this book 20%, which was honestly overly generous. I think this humor is for a very select group of people, and I'm not a part of that group. If you are interested in a new-ish take on Elizabeth Holmes, here you go. Be warned, it's a vampire book that takes it's sweet time vampiring.

**Thank you NetGalley and Anchor for the eARC**

This book was pitched as Bad Blood meets Succession & I was immediately intrigued. The Theranos scandal was fascinating for me, and the addition of a sci fi horror element makes it the perfect package for warm summer night reading.

Thank you so much @netgalley & @vintageanchorbooks for the eArc!

Really interesting idea but following the wrong main character. Would have been way more interesting if we were following Olivia or someone other than Chuck

Chuck Gross is from one of the wealthiest families in the country -- not that you would know it if you met him. Chuck has founded a small music label and tries to hide his background, even as he relies on his family's resources to keep the label going. When his father finally threatens to cut him off if he does not get a "real job," Chuck reluctantly agrees to accept an offer from an old college friend to work for her at her tech company. Chuck's friend Olivia has founded a company that promises to change medical care with new technology, and it has captured the imagination of the press and funders. But as Chuck settles into his amorphous new job, he quickly realizes that the company and its core technology may be less than meets the eye -- and that there may be something dark underlying the company and his friend. Chuck must decide whether he is going to try to stop Olivia and reveal the truth of what is going on at her company -- and whether he even can.

This was a sharp and perceptive exploration of Silicon Valley and the hero culture that often surrounds tech company founders. It is also often quite funny as it explores timely themes related to inequity, ambition, and family.

Highly recommended!

This is basically the story of Elizabeth Holmes, famous for the meteoric rise and fall of her startup Theranos, if she had also been a vampire. Legitimately everything in this book, from the insane office space to the powerful board members and investors, was ripped right out of Elizabeth's wild tale.

Did I enjoy the book? Sure. It was fine. The story was VERY familiar as I've followed the Holmes scandal closely from day one, but I did appreciate that these rich dudes investing (unlike the Theranos investors) were fully aware they were doing it for the possibility of immortality. The characters fell flat for me; I couldn't really connect with any of them, so I did not care at all what happened to them in the end. The narrator/main character was kind of just annoying - constantly stating how he wanted to hide his background and get away from his super wealthy, well-known family, yet allowing his super wealthy well-known dad to fund his little record label project.

The story itself was okay. The vampire angle became obvious very early on, and I mostly spent the remainder of the book waiting for the main character to realize his new boss/old college friend was a vampire trying to recruit him. All in all, a decent book, but I wouldn't pick it up again.

Many thanks to NetGalley along with Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor for the ARC!

This one had my mind BUZZING, I couldn't look away!

To start, let's meet Chuck Gross- the black-sheep scion of an industrial empire, who's been trying to prune himself from his family tree. He's ditched the fancy name and started a punk label, rebel that he is. But when Daddy threatens to cut him off, Chuck's forced into the corporate world... and that's when things get schwifty.

Enter Olivia Watts, the genius behind a bio-medical startup promising... immortality. Chuck dives in, but soon enough, he realizes the utopian promises might just be covering up a nightmare. Secret labs, weird experiments, an ape, uh, thing, and disappearing employees.

Hornsby's writing style had me hooked from page one.The story is so original and twisted, you'll question your own reality by the end. And Chuck! Oh boy, a character you'll root for even when he's knee-deep in the weirdest of situations. I loved how brutal and sassy and scared he was of everything.

This book isn't just a satire on the tech elite's insatiable greed, it's a rollercoaster of hilarious proportions that makes you question the thin line between innovation and downright madness. I found that to be an incredibly realistic touch within the chaos that ensued. I recommend this one to fans of Sign Here, as the writing style and main character put me in mind of Claudia Lux's.

Thanks so much to Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest thoughts!

Sucker was an interesting novel, looking at the tech world and the bad it can bring to the world. I liked the thriller/horror element and thought it was well done

This book just felt like way too much of a rip-off of the real life story of Elizabeth Holmes. I understand being inspired by real events and then writing a book loosely based off of those events, but this was just too close for comfort with no real 'credit' given. It did not do enough to separate itself from the real-life scandal. Overall, I really did like the breaking of the fourth wall throughout and just how overtly hilarious and out-there this book was. But, I just don't find it original and the ending wasn't paced well enough. It felt like we were building and building and building to this stellar conclusion and then it kind of just spews it out and then the book ends.

The book's concept sounded so good and so up my street, unfortunately, the book just didn’t really live up to my expectations. The storyline nor the characters really stood out to me and thus I had a very hard time getting into the story.

Thank you to Netgalley as well as Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor for sending me an advanced copy.

Thank you to Netgalley and the Publisher for this Advanced Readers Copy of Sucker by Daniel Hornsby!