Victorio A. Velasquez has potential but needs some honing.  He needs to work on the clear storyline of this adult novel Fantastica.  His character development and use of past and present tense can be confusing to the reader.  Victorio starts out with the two main characters, Shit and Dope.  I believe that their names are representative of what their personalities are like.  There are simple character names throughout the novel which was confusing because only the first two characters were somewhat developed. 

The story is about two characters who leave town for an illegal festival.  Dope’s parental figures come and shut it down and drag him back to town to be punished.  Dope is severely punished and sentenced to become a slave.  Shit, who was not captured, reconnects with Kit who is his love interest.  The two of them together are killing machines.  Two trolls give Shit and Kit a compass.  A rat helps Dope escape from slavery.  Dope falls in love with a girl that he tries to rescue while the evil cat emperor Louie is making life hell for people.  I was confused about what happened to Dope because the character disappeared from the story about half way through.

Shit and Kit along with some other characters start to make their way back to the city.  Shit seems to have some strange powers that are developing along the way.  They meet their old friend Sambo.  He seems to be a mentor to Shit and Kit.  There are lots of graphic fights and the ending leaves it open to the next story.

I give the author credit that he wrote a short novel and he can tell a story, it just needs refining.  He has good imagination and the novel reads almost like a video game.  The novel needs to be edited by a professional before going to print.