Hot Singles in Your Area
by Jordan Shiveley
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Pub Date 7 Nov 2024 | Archive Date 7 Dec 2024
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Description
A blistering body-horror following two imperfect strangers ensnared by a sinister media powerhouse.
Noah desperately needs a new job that involves less blood and piss than his current one. So, when he spots an ad for a newspaper with ‘No experience preferred’, he puts on his good shirt and marches down to their average-looking office to unknowingly sign his life away.
Malachia is the only human left in the City of Silence and she spends her time wandering its empty, bone-filled streets. Until one day she finds a lone figure hunched over a typewriter, his fingers enmeshed with the keys. Could he be the answer to finding her lost love?
Propelled by their pursuits for rent money and truth, Noah and Malachia are pushed to their limits in this tightly-plotted satire of occupational hazards and conglomerate powers.
'Devastating in its bottom-of-the-grave black humour' Jen Vaughn, author of Goosebumps: Download and Die!
'Jordan's writing is the sharpest and leaves the deepest marks.' John Wiswell, author of Someone You Can Build a Nest In
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
'Will leave you laughing, shuddering and looking over your shoulder.'
David Demchuk, author of The Bone Mother
'Devastating in its bottom-of-the-grave black humour'
Jen Vaughn, author of Goosebumps: Download and Die!
'Jordan's writing is the sharpest and leaves the deepest marks.'
John Wiswell, author of Someone You Can Build a Nest In
'I cannot physically put this book down'
Joshua Mendenhall, Co-Director of Islands of Sina Una
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781800183414 |
| PRICE | £9.99 (GBP) |
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Featured Reviews
Reviewer 1453589
This was a really cool book. I couldn’t put it down once I started it. It was a five star read! I think others will enjoy it as much as I did.
David R, Reviewer
I didn't know what to expect going in to this book but it was different than anything I could have thought and that's a very good thing.
This horror/comedy is weird, satirical, and has everything you'd want in horror including tentacle plant ladies, demons, alternate worlds, and other creatures which you just have to read about to grasp their full scope.
Told from two perspectives, one in our world and one in another, they both collide in sometimes goopy and humorous ways. One of our main characters just wanted a job that didn't require him to clean up urine and blood. When he gets hired with no resistance as a salesman for advertising from a newspaper of some kind, he might just wish he didn't apply.
In another existence, our other main character is wondering why the magical and very eccentric city she lives in is empty, leaving her all alone with things she doesn't want to imagine.
These two arcs will come together in this blend of horror and hilarity with a great satirical twisty narrative that can sometimes be puzzling but still very entertaining.
I recommend this novel if you're looking for something weird and oddly different.
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