The Phisher King is a cute story with likable characters, a little action and intrigue, a decent emotional connection between the MCs and no real angst. 31-year-old FBI agent Callum Riggs is really buttoned up. He isn’t in the closet, but he’s always tried to be the picture of conservative, normalcy – to prove to his parents that being isn’t going to destroy his chance for a successful, respectable life. (Spoiler alert, his parents are jerks - and now I sound like Cal, but they’re not actually in the book). Cal tries to be the picture of professionalism on the job to include never swearing at work. Which is honestly just bizarre. It took me awhile to get used to it as his character quirk; because no normal person would take it to the extreme that he does. But that’s the frakkin way his cockadoodie character is written, God darn it all to heck! Obviously, the absolute last thing that Cal should be doing on the job is lusting over 22-year-old, pink haired, pierced, sassy-brat criminal hacker Hunter Walsh.
Hunter is a sympathetic character. He’s not really a criminal. Well, he does do some technically illegal things. But he’s also a college student. And mostly he’s just young and a weird combination of idealistic and disillusioned. He also has jerk parents, thereby proving people should not be allowed to procreate indiscriminately; and a somewhat tragic but not entirely fleshed out backstory.
The real star of the show is Bruiser, or Bru to friends and family. Bru would be Cal’s yappy little, Napoleon complex, sweater wearing rat dog. Cal is fairly FBI straight-laced Butch to Hunter’s semi-twinky punk; so Bru was the way Hunter could tell for certain that Cal really was batting for the other team and not just pulling Hunter’s leg to gain his cooperation. The award for “most character emotional growth” also goes to Bruiser the Pomeranian.
The plot is pretty straight forward. Hunter enjoys hacking and trolling, and when he stumbles upon some alt-Right psychos planning a Pride Day massacre, he passes the tip on to the FBI. The FBI, having all their resources allocated to important things; requires Hunter’s ongoing hacking assistance. Cal and Hunter are forced into close proximity and opposites attract with a surprising level of emotional development. There’s some miscommunication and misunderstandings and past experiences and inherent personality traits mucking things up; but shockingly they end up talking to each other. There’s no relationship drama, a little bit of a Daddy-vibe that apparently gets highlighted later in the serious, some hurt-comfort caretaking and a kickass little dog. TPK is sweet and cute and a little funny.
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