{"id":6764,"date":"2019-09-16T09:09:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T13:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=6764"},"modified":"2019-09-16T09:09:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T13:09:42","slug":"book-review-a-love-not-deceased-by-eric-kapitan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/book-review-a-love-not-deceased-by-eric-kapitan\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: A Love Not Deceased by Eric Kapitan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Love Not Deceased\u00a0<\/em>by Eric Kapitan<\/p>\n

Self published, expected February 2020<\/p>\n

ISBN: 978-1-082219-35-1<\/p>\n

Available: paperback<\/p>\n

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Eric Kapitan’s A Love Not Deceased <\/em>is an eclectic mix of romance, sex, murder, and overall weirdness.\u00a0 The story has a bit of everything, done to the right amount.\u00a0 The sex isn’t too graphic, the gore isn’t over the top, every part fits together.\u00a0 It’s a strange romance that will appeal to a non-romantic horror fan.\u00a0 The only real drawback is the ending: it came too soon.\u00a0 This story had more room to run: it’s a shame it didn’t.<\/p>\n

Maggie, the story’s protagonist, is a wonderful study in contrast.\u00a0 She’s 31, looking for True Romance, and saving herself for Mr. Right.\u00a0 Casual sex and one night flings are NOT her thing.\u00a0 Her current means of supporting herself, oddly enough, consists of customer service over the phone for a national sex toys company, and self-publishing erotica novels for “lonely and horny soccer moms”.\u00a0 She has a deep-seated fear of losing those she loves, since she lost both her parents at an early age.\u00a0 She finally meets her Mr. Right: Mike, a nice, stable, self-supporting fellow, who introduces Maggie to the world of sub\/dom relationships… and she finds herself loving it.\u00a0 Minor spoiler ahead: tragedy strikes when Mike unexpectedly is murdered, and Maggie begins her descent into madness,\u00a0 with her actions getting\u00a0 increasingly crazy and bloody.<\/p>\n

The writing is a nice balance of exposition and dialogue, with a slightly dark overall tone.\u00a0 The author shows he can write all situations equally well: the part describing Maggie losing her dad is genuinely touching, and will yank on your heartstrings.\u00a0 There’s also some unexpected humor to lighten the mood.\u00a0\u00a0 The dialogue of some of Maggie’s conversations with her sex toy customers was hilarious, and the parts where Maggie and Mike act like excited kids over tattoos and rock concert tickets help to make them genuinely likable characters.\u00a0 The first 50 pages of the story are strictly the background scenery for setting up the characters for the actual plot. However, it’s written well, and will hold your interest.\u00a0 The last 40 pages are where the story cuts loose, with Maggie losing Mike, then going nuts.\u00a0 Kapitan adds in a nice touch here, since a couple of the chapters are still written from Mike’s point of view, even though he’s dead\u2026 or is he?<\/p>\n

It’s a quick story, and at 91 pages double-spaced, it’s a breeze to get through.\u00a0 This brings up the only negative: the story ends just when it kicks into high gear.\u00a0 Most of it is a slow buildup to\u00a0 Maggie’s spiral into insanity.\u00a0 Just when it hits the overload point, and it feels like the story is about take off at a breakneck pace for the finish line, it ends.\u00a0 It would have been nice to see it keep going– there was a lot of potential left on the table.<\/p>\n

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Contains: violence, profanity, sex<\/p>\n

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Reviewed by Murray Samuelson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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