I am really excited to be taking part in the blog tour for
Gavin and the Bodysnatchers by Michael A. Duffy today.
Gavin and the Bodysnatchers is set in Drabbleton, a town
that has seen better days. When we first meet Gavin his life is not going too
well, the joke shop that he runs is on its last legs and is about to be
repossessed and his marriage is falling apart. Marie, his long-suffering wife,
has had just about enough of his joke shop pranks and has left him for a local
footballer.
Then Bryce Brimstone, the latest generation of the Brimstone
dynasty who had led Drabbleton in its heyday as a buzzing industrial town returns
to the factory that his family built and wants to put the town on the map
again. This sounds great and Gavin soon finds a job there. However, it doesn’t
take long to find out that Bryce is a somewhat cruel and sinister character and
starts to make a lot of enemies very quickly.
I really loved the range of characters that we meet
and Gavin is someone that you can’t help feeling that is sometimes just in the
wrong place at the wrong time.
This is a fast paced and witty read and there are a lot of
surprises in store for the reader. It is funny, but with a dark and gruesome side
too – there were some moments where I wanted to shout ‘No don’t do it’ and
others that were laugh out loud.
This book is slightly different to my usual read, but I
thoroughly enjoyed it and will be looking out for what the author writes next.
Ad/PR: I received a digital copy of this book from the book
tour organiser.
