*received for free from netgalley for honest review* Really enjoyed this book!! didn't realize it was part of a series, but I definitely want to read the first two books! Figured this book would be a hit or miss and it was a huge hit! would read again and recommend!

I've read all of Jason's books, I loved the JDATE novels, but I've been a little bit so-so on his Zoey Ashe series. Like with the other works in the Zoey Ashe line I found myself skipping here and there to move the story along when I felt the story moving too slow and dragging, Which would be my main complaint I've never really connected with the MC or the plot and because of that the story feels slow and unimportant. Don't get me wrong I think Jason is a great author, and I'll keep reading his work, but Zoey just isn't my favorite.
The production for the audio book is as top notch as any other audio book I've listened to, the voice actress did a great job with Zoey in my opinion.

Zoe is Too Drunk for this Dystopia by Jason Pargin is a dystopian novel following Zoey, the heiress to much of the city of Tabula Rosa. The title and cover grabbed me on this book and I couldn’t wait to dig in. It’s the third in a series and the previous books were referenced, but I didn’t need to have read them to understand what was going on.

Basically, Zoey Ashe recently became the heiress of Tabula Ro$a’s main crime lord and has to learn to navigate that. It’s the eve of a mayoral election where the choice of Zoey’s team is going up against a Trumpesque character who is projected to win. Prostitutes are disappearing and a broadcast of one being horrifically murdered sets off a chain of events culminating in an election day no one will ever forget.

I’m really torn on how I feel about this and I suspect it's because I’m not the book’s target audience. On one hand, I really enjoyed how it poked at current events (I couldn’t believe the author had me rooting for a heiress and her shadowy team!), but on the other, at times it was too real and too painful, especially as a woman. The tone bordered on sanctimonious at times which wasn’t enjoyable to me. I did not enjoy the crude humor aspects and Zoey had some ticks that were downright irritating after awhile, such as always telling people her people were going to be there in a few minutes when they never were.

I listened to the audiobook. Narrator Elizabeth Evans did a fantastic job and I never had trouble knowing who was talking, she nailed a variety of different voices. She paced the story well and overall, improved my experience. I don’t know if I’d have made it through otherwise.

Favorite quote: At the end of the book, Zoey and her team discuss the scene in the bible when Jesus resurrects Lazarus. There’s a whole monologue, but here’s the part that will stick with me: God “may be all powerful, he may be all knowing, but when he came down here to our world, and tried to play our game, he couldn’t hack it. He couldn’t take the thing he saddles us with every day. This death. This losing people. When he came down and tried to play the game he created, the sheer random cruelty of it knocked him flat.”

Thank you to NetGalley, the author, and publisher for allowing me to listen to this book as an ARC to review.

This was a romp, with the humor and structure reminiscent of a Grady Hendrix novel. Is this an important novel with lots to say… not really. Is it fun with a few jabs at the patriarchy, political systems, the cult of personality and how women are valued (as people and monetarily through sex work). Bloody and kooky, with a side character who is now mostly augmentations this is a perfect October fun read.

This book is mostly just for fun, but does have a few moments that get the reader thinking. I haven’t read the rest in the series, but I will probably go back and do so now when I need a break from heavy or deep reading.

The plots all over the place, in a good way. I enjoyed all the interpersonal relationships in the story but what really drew me in was the world. It felt like the sort of demented thing I would’ve imagined as a child mixed up with the darkness grown up me knows about. It’s dark on a super fun and funny way, and the style of the book was something I loved. The narrator was a real rockstar, all the different voices they did for different characters really brought me into the story. I didn’t know this was the third story in the series but after listening to this one I want to go read the first two.

Not at all what I was expecting but a wonderfully humorous, dark, and complex story. Well done. I found myself immersed in the story and didn’t want to stop listening. I would love to see more on this world to get a better idea of the odd inner workings.

Thank you NetGalley for this ALC.
I am going to be honest and state that I have not read either of the previous two books in this series. This book can stand alone, however, the relationships between the main character, Zoey and her team is well established by this third installment and thus may impact some understanding. Who Zoey is, is also very important to know, and that is well detailed in the previous two books.

I really appreciated the level of satire and commentary on human nature in this book. The level of comedy is truly what made this book three stars for me. Otherwise, there were times when there were too many distractions that detered the reader away from the deeper ideas at play in this plot. The idea of a dystopia and how we technically live inside one now, was something worth exploring more while reading this novel.

The audio performance was great. This narrator helped me envision Zoey and her gang.

Tbh I wasn’t expecting a lot from this book but the title drew me in.

Zoey Ashe is a reluctant millionaire who inherited her fortune after her absent, crime lord father died. Before then she lived in a trailer park with her mom in poverty.

Now she’s dodging assassination attempts, learning to play political games and trying to maintain her soul.

This was a fun romp and I loved Zoey!

Thank you NetGalley and Macmillan audio for this audio ARC.

I love Elizabeth Evans. She’s spectacular and delivers a fabulous performance for this Zoey Ashe book!!!!!

I never expected to like this this series. I bought the second book, Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick, because my godkids thought it was a hilarious title and cover. Then I found out it was a series. I got the audio of Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits just before the physical copy arrived. It was great and I devoured books one and two. It was only recently I found out a third book was coming out and omg, it landed here on NetGalley and I got the audio and now I think I need more….

Thank you to Macmillan Audio and netgalley for allowing me to listen to this book. This book was so so to me. I wanted to enjoy it more but just couldnt get into it

Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia may be my new obsession for the foreseeable future. I will admit the title was what caught my attention and I was hooked. I haven’t had this much fun with a Sci-fi book since The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy because sometimes not taking yourself too seriously in Sci-fi just feels so refreshing. I haven’t read any of the previous books in the Zoey Ashe which may have taken a little context away, but I feel like that didn’t lessen my experience and I now have two more books to enjoy.

Zoey Ashe is met with a series of more and more absurd scenarios, but I was there for the ride. Listening to the audiobook, Elizabeth Evans gives perfect delivery to set the tone and give life to Zoey. The large cast of characters throughout the book were all given their own personality during the reading, giving a much more enhanced listening experience.

Thank you to Netgalley and Macmillan Audio for the privilege to listen to Zoey is Too Drunk for This Dystopia. I truly judged this book by the title and am so incredibly happy that I did.

I do not believe this book was for me, it had good writing and and over all good story. But I found I was annoyed almost the whole time because of the way the people around her behaved. I get it corporate life is all self indulged selfish douchebags and people with money are corrupt but the behavior by people you are paying to keep you safe and they constantly put you in danger and you have never replaced them is just bizarre to me. Every time I started enjoying the story I was reminded she is surrounded by nincompoops'. And also why she still partakes in activities or business ventures she has no interest in made no sense to me.

This was my first book by Jason Pargin. I didn't realize it was the third book in a series before I requested but the reviews on Goodreads made it seem like that is okay. This book was hard for me to get into in the beginning but it gets so much better towards the halfway point and on to the end. The story was kind of all over the place and not always in a bad way. The main story revolves around an upcoming election between a guy who basically wants to get rid of all people he claims to be useless so he can have a perfect society and the other guy is a crime boss. The main character of this story, Zoey Ashe, and her team are on the crime boss's side. Some of the side plots are conspiracy theories about their meat factory, sex workers that are going missing, Zoey's weird romantic encounters with The Amazing Aviv, and the music festival shenanigans. There were a lot of really cool things that I loved about this book. I thought Blink was really interesting and seemed like something from Black Mirror which I am a huge fan of. There was also some early stage cybernetic enhancements. It was a pretty good book but for me I feel like it suffered from the plot being all over the place and not really picking up until halfway through.