Temper

A Novel

De: Nicky Drayden

Narrado por: Mirron Willis

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Frenetic, hilarious and poignant.

This book was absolutely wonderful. It was surprising and illuminating and engaged all of my senses. The narrator is absolutely fantastic and adds volumes.

Nicky Drayden -Weird,Twisted,Brilliant - I Love It

Nicky Drayden is Weird and Twisted and Brilliant and becoming one of my favorite authors!
I Love her stories and her characters!

What in the zagnut was that?!

“Should I call the sanitation department. Because it feels like you’re talking a load of s.”
This was not the gritty, sci-fi, supernatural horror story I was expecting. The beginning was especially high school, with yo mama jokes and animal sex euphemisms, and focusing on two twin teens doing the stupid things teens do.

“Is that a wax p in your pants or are you ready to get this exorcism started?”
Then it morphed into Goosebumps level horror … with weird sex focused … everything that reminded me of Benny Hill or any 70s sitcom with a laugh track. There’s a steady increase in death and comic level horror as things go Werewolf in London meets Kafka’s Metamorphosis … only in South Africa.

“You blackmailed her?”
“It’s the best kind of male.”
The humor was kinda dark but more Rocky Horror Picture Show warped- although I admit that my RHS vibes may have been from the Tim Curry-like narration that was smarmy and OTT and told the story with a wink and a nod.

“Science became something you did alone, in shame, under the covers of night- maybe with a few close and trusted partners if you yearned to share your titillating theories of chemistry, biology, astronomy … and if your were feeling particularly dirty, you might partake in mechanics as well.”
There were a lot of cool concepts that never quite came together for me, like the divide between the majority following a mythical vice/virtue religion and the minority practicing science in secret.

“We are more than the sum of our virtues and vices.”
The core mythology of a world of twins bearing inversely related numbers of vices versus virtues was enticing. But, apart from one tiny info dump in the second half, I had more questions than answers about the hows and the whys and the what in the zagnut did I just listen to?