Shady Palms

De: Allen Dusk

Narrado por: Rose Caraway

A sleazy motel, burrowed on the edge of town, is haunted by rumors of dead hookers found between mattresses and peep holes drilled through walls. When Special Agent Daniels targets the motel during an investigation, the nefarious owner, Sanjay, must scramble to conceal evidence of his own dark deeds. Just when he believes things can't get any worse, motel guests begin to vanish without a trace.

Can Sanjay discover the truth behind the phenomena threatening his motel before the Feds get suspicious, or does he risk exposing his own sordid enterprises to seek help from the outside?

Why don't you book a room for the night and find out? At these bargain rates you'll be lucky if you only find dirty sheets and a few skeletons in the closet. Welcome to the Shady Palms Motel. Check out is at 11, if you live that long...

©2012 Carnal Morgue Press (P)2013 Allen Dusk

The silliest book I ever listened to.

Would you try another book from Allen Dusk and/or Rose Caraway?

Sure. This one served as comic relief if nothing else.

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

The most interesting part was how completely goofy the story was.

What three words best describe Rose Caraway’s performance?

Silly, silly, silly! Not funny silly, just enjoyably ridiculously silly. A real head shaker.

Was Shady Palms worth the listening time?

Actually it was worth the time. I listen to books while I work. At the end of each day I filled my wife in on what was going on with this one; something I rarely do. I just had to tell someone. :-)

Any additional comments?

If you're a little tired of the main stream good stuff, give this one a listen. Believe me, you won't believe what you're listening, but you will probably feel the time spent was worth it. I have never listened to anything like this one in my life.

Not for the innocent

This was a hard core book. The language and story where very explicit. And yet I had to listen to the end. Sorry that this is a very unhelpful review, but I'm NOT a writer.

A bit genre-confused, but fun listen!

As others have pointed out: this book is vulgar. We should get that out the way first. Sex, death, gore. All of it in vulgar detail. If you can't stand that, then I wouldn't buy this book.

That said, I enjoyed it. There were times I felt the vulgarities were unneeded and just in place to make things racier, but I accepted that that was the author's tone with this book, and went with it.

As for the story, I am unsure what genre this falls under. You've got a tiny bit of mystery (two, in a way), and you've got the usual "skin flick and gore" type of stuff. What's surprising though, is you get a bit of science fiction as well.

It's hard for me to delve deeper than that without spoiling things, and I suppose that's why the book's summary was equally vague. I can say this: It's a novel about a shady motel, told from many perspectives. The writing is very descriptive (even if vulgar) and each character (even short-lived ones) are well fleshed out. It'll make you cringe, laugh and shake your head, but you'll love every moment of the wild ride.

Is this narrator meant to be a joke?

How did the narrator detract from the book?

I can honestly say I've never been turned off from an audio book by the narrator choice. In this instance I could barely get past the first few chapters. The novel's content is brutal and raw, not meant to be read by someone who should be selling items on the home shopping network. The combination just didn't work and thus, the story suffered.

Si Fi Sex

Strange. Too much sex and bugs and not much story. Nothing much until the last few chapters.
I like mystery. Just made a bad choice.