This one pleased the body horror fanatic in me, the situation for the siblings only getting more shocking as they tried to get a handle on it.Ĥ8 To Go – He was fast running out of time.ĭace has forty-eight hours to pay up the sixty grand he lost, so he targets a house that he believes will solve his problems, yet what he finds inside will complicate what’s supposed to be a simple robbery. Desperate.Īfter discovering their mother has passed away in her bed, Maddy and Zack attempt to keep her death a secret and continue life as normal, but before they can properly dispose of her, her corpse goes through some unexpected changes. Mother in Bloom – His mother’s voice was insistent. There wasn’t a single dud, but I did have my favourites. That’s not to say they were all the same, each standing respectively on its own while building upon the town’s lore – for being the very first glimpse of what I assume is going to be expanded on over time, it succeeded in getting my attention. Being interconnected as they were, each story featured cross-over details, be it characters or venues, suggesting an overarching narrative that became more apparent by the end. It’s not just the crime that’s a problem, but the horrors that run deep, Baxter excelling in building an air of mystery and creeping dread – I was sucked in, and couldn’t help but try to figure out what was happening.
( From the publisher.With five novellas in one volume, The Gulp introduces the Australian town of Gulpepper and the strange phenomenon that affect not only its locals, but those that pass through. Like all of Roach’s books, Gulp is as much about human beings as it is about human bodies. With Roach at our side, we travel the world, meeting murderers and mad scientists, Eskimos and exorcists (who have occasionally administered holy water rectally), rabbis and terrorists-who, it turns out, for practical reasons do not conceal bombs in their digestive tracts. We go on location to a pet-food taste-test lab, a fecal transplant, and into a live stomach to observe the fate of a meal.
Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn’t the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach bursts? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis? In Gulp we meet scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks of-or has the courage to ask. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. “America’s funniest science writer” ( Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside.
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