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This is a double novella flip book pairing a modern corporate suspense story about the cover up of a CEO s illicit affair with a 1970s era science fiction thriller about an oil company s environmental disaster It is an exploration of the paranoia inherent in business and the thin line between competition and conspiracy Gamification C MonkeysThis clever flip book was a fun read A real throw back to the thrillers I read in the 70 s English Gamification and C Monkeys are a pair of related novellas sold together as a flip book with a different cover on each side The effect is clearly meant as a call back to days when publishers sold slim pulpy novels in bound pairs and although both stories include familiar beats Hollihan leavens each with modern ecological concerns and stylistic touches. Gamification/C-Monkeys bookworm I decided to start reading these novellas thanks to a highly scientific method that involved skimming the first page of every review copy I have in my possession until I found one that hooked me enough to keep reading. Gamification/C-Monkeys pdf24 Gamification a thriller about corporate espionage offered just the right combination of spare prose and business jargon I was soon caught up in the plight of the main character a former corporate executive and current ex con recently released from prison and struggling to make ends meet When he begins working under the table for his old company cleaning up after the CEO s ill advised affair with a woman at a rival company things start to get hairy. Gamification/C-Monkeys pdf editor Hollihan definitely knows his jargon I m pretty sure that if you turn this book sideways a few inter office memos and a quarterly report might fall out He also has a pretty solid grasp of thriller conventions and pacing the book starts out slow but steady until things inevitably begin escalating and Hollihan pulls the rug out from under his main character. Gamification/C-Monkeys ebooks online It was exciting reading and I definitely enjoyed the experience but the end of the novella left several story threads unresolved or unexplained and I was admittedly a bit confused about who did what to whom and why It felt a bit like Hollihan ignored motivations and explanations in the name of surprise and excitement It worked in the moment but ultimately left me unsatisfied. Gamification/C-Monkeys booker I assumed that C Monkeys might shed some light on the parts of Gamification that remained unexplained but I was sadly disappointed At one point in Gamification the main character is given a pulpy dime store novel about a mad scientist on a mysterious island full of giant salamanders C Monkeys is essentially the expanded version of that novel s summary. Gamification/C-Monkeys ebooks online Unfortunately in expanding the story Hollihan doesn t bring much to the table The main character in C Monkeys is a cipher with no backstory and no clear motivations We are eventually told a bit about who he is and why he might want to sneak on the island but it comes late in the story and feels like an arbitrary info dump instead of a shocking revelation Honestly nothing about C Monkeys felt particularly surprising or remarkable. Gamification/C-Monkeys ebook reader I wanted to like Gamification and C Monkeys than I did Both novellas were eminently readable and Hollihan gets a surprising amount of entertainment mileage out of corporate espionage and the particulars of drilling for oil but Gamification s many twists add up to a whole lot of nonsense and C Monkeys just feels unnecessary I might be up for reading of Hollihan s work but I can t recommend this pair of novellas English C Monkeys took me back to my teen years devouring Doc Savage The Avenger and the early Shadow pulps. Gamification/C-Monkeys booking Gamification pulled me back into the modern world of a high pressure corporate thiller and kept me guessing until the very end English Another very good book by ChiZine PublicationsFor a full review please go to and follow me on Twitter josenher English