{"id":10334,"date":"2024-07-31T21:38:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T01:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=10334"},"modified":"2024-07-31T21:38:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T01:38:48","slug":"book-review-lgbt-lust-gore-bloodshed-terror-by-wol-vriey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/book-review-lgbt-lust-gore-bloodshed-terror-by-wol-vriey\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: LGBT: Lust, Gore, Bloodshed & Terror by Wol-vriey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LGBT: Lust, Gore, Bloodshed & Terror<\/em> by Wol-vriey<\/p>\n

Burning Bulb Publishing, 2024<\/p>\n

ISBN: 9781964172002<\/p>\n

Available: Paperback, Kindle edition<\/p>\n

Buy:\u00a0 Bookshop.org<\/a>\u00a0| Amazon.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The author himself has referred to his writing as \u2018bizarro fiction,\u2019 and this story certainly qualifies.\u00a0 It also qualifies as a good improvement over his last two novels.\u00a0 The book feels like a Greek tragicomedy of errors, with a lot of raunch, blood, and hilarious irony mixed in.\u00a0 Oh, and a vampire, too.\u00a0 And a witch.\u00a0 And a crazed scientist\/artist.\u00a0 It\u2019s a good read, for the excitement as well as the laughs, and it keeps you guessing all the way.<\/p>\n

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This is a \u2018character web\u2019 story, with four disparate main characters who barely know each other, and a host of secondary characters that slowly tie their fates together.\u00a0 The main players are: Lavelle, a sex-crazed lesbian porn actress who is hounded by a lovestruck ghost; Greg, the elderly gay man cuckolded by his young trophy husband; Bryn, a lovelorn bisexual vampire eternally searching for her soulmate; and Tammi, a trans woman short on cash for gender affirmation surgery. It’s certainly an eclectic crew!\u00a0 \u00a0The four of them all plan on doing not-so-nice things to others to improve their lives, but\u2026things just never seem to quite<\/em> work out according to plan.\u00a0 What makes the story fun, is all the unexpected ways things just go to hell in a handbasket.\u00a0 Just when it seems that it might get predictable, the story swings off in an unexpected fashion.<\/p>\n

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The story does an excellent job pulling all the plot threads together a little at a time, and heaping delicious irony at every turn.\u00a0 The characters are great fun, often due to their deadpan way of looking at things.\u00a0 My personal favorite: one character\u2019s initial response to winding up in everlasting Purgatory is, “this sucks already.”\u00a0 None of the four main characters are particularly nice or sympathetic (well, maybe Greg, but only at first) and that works very well for the plot.\u00a0 It makes it more fun when each of them reaps what they sow.\u00a0 The whole story is completely over the top. The entire thing is a puzzle, guessing who is going to get killed, condemned, or cursed next, and it usually doesn\u2019t happen the way you would expect it to.\u00a0 The unpredictability of the story is one of its big selling points, and that alone makes it worth the read.<\/p>\n

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Bottom line time: it\u2019s a good book from an author with a pretty large catalogue of stories to his credit This certainly ranks in the upper echelon of his works.\u00a0 Just remember, this is ADULTS ONLY material, it\u2019s not for your kids!<\/p>\n

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Reviewed by Murray Samuelson<\/p>\n

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