So I had to read this one for the Abe award and it reminded me a lot of So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld. I liked Westerfeld's novel, and this was okay, too. Jennifer works for the government, hence the name, and her archenemy is her ex-husband John Nike. Well, one of the John Nike's. I love the characters' names!
John Nike takes his marketing strategy a little too far and murders a bunch of teenagers as they buy the new Nike Mercury shoes. The marketing works, and sales skyrocket, but two weeks later the $3000 shoes are selling for $99 in the clearance bin. But, oh, the murders start quite the change of events. Jennifer gets a man, her cute little girl gets a soon-to-be step-dad, and John Nike (one of them) ends up impaled on the Nike Swoosh door handle of Nike Town. Ha! The government of this futuristic society doesn't get disbanded by US Alliance and TransAmerica, and Jennifer saves the day.
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