Blog Tour stop for this crazy, Tarantino feel novel
"Sometimes running a business can costs and arm and a leg. Literally."
Synopsis
Amber Hawthorne and Jolene Morris, roommates and business partners at the Hawthorne Funeral Home,are drowning in debt.
Because both young women have trouble keeping their partying habits in line, they start selling body parts on the black market to keep their business alive – and their new buyers seem friendly and trustworthy enough at first.
That is until the dead gangster they've recently parted up turns out to have been full of disease.
Now Amber and Jolene's buyers want something else to make up for lost profits, leaving the two undertakers to learn sometimes running your own business can cost you an arm and a leg. Literally.
My Review
WOW! I really don't even know where to start with this review! if you love a bit of old school Tarantino then this is the book for you!
This tale has it all, violence, gore, funny yet trashy characters, mobsters, drugs and over the top events that fit perfectly with this mad capped story.
I honestly felt like I had fallen in to the sopranos everyone was out for something!
Showing how life can go very very wrong with just a few bad choices, We have a Doctor now a back street surgeon and two girls who running a funeral home, now selling body parts.
When something goes wrong with the first delivery, they all end up in a mess with the only question been what will they do to survive?
Chop Shop was a crazy read some parts were violent and shocking but I did find myself smiling and even laughing at the dark parts!
Author Bio
Andrew Post was born in Erie, Pennsylvania (imagine Eraserhead but in color).
While he was honing his craft as a writer (those early stories were awful) he worked in a gift shop in one of the scuzziest hotels in the Midwest, he cleaned rental cars (also gross), he was a butcher (despite being a vegetarian),and in 2013 his first novel, the cyberpunk thriller, Knuckleduster, was published.
No one really seemed to care much but he kept at it and has since published a handful of other works to varying degrees of resulting public interest with a few seeing translations and one almost became a movie (that lit agent has since been fired).
For Chop Shop, Andrew was inspired by the (early) films of Quentin Tarantino, Guy Ritchie,and Martin Scorsese,as well as the deliberately over the-top horror films of the 80s like Peter Jackson's Braindead.
That was the goal with Chop Shop: a comedic crime caper with buckets of gore. Andrew lives in a sleepy river town in Minnesota where he may or may not be planning aquatic "accidents"to befall the many other authors who live in the area and he has been mistaken for Rob Zombie on no less than ten separate occasions.
Purchase Links
Fiction: Crime & mystery fiction
Product format: Paperback Price: £9.95; $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-78758-284-2
Pages: 256 pp
Publisher
FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launching in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners,and exciting, original voices.
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Thank you to the Publisher and Author for sending me an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) of this novel and for the opportunity to review these works.
All reviews are my own unbiased opinion.
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