BOOK REVIEW: ​LIMBS BY TIM MEYER

Ray Bridges works at an electronic store, which anyone who has ever worked retail will testify-working with the public sucks. I mean, people are assholes. All of them.  but our Ray is a friendly guy. He's smart and considerate and caring and juts looking for love and a happy future which would be quite easy to attain were it not for his little quirk:  He's only sexually attracted to women who are missing limbs. A foot , a finger, an arm...doesn't matter as long as they are not whole, he's ready to get down to business.

Then things happen to further complicated Ray's already crowded plate of deception and secrecy-there is a serial maimer on the loose. A person who is not killing women but mutilating them and leaving them amputees.  On top of that, Ray finally finds the girl of his dreams. She makes his heart go pitter-pat...but he can't get intimate with her because she still has all of her factory original parts.  Maybe he'll luck out and she'll cross paths with the stranger who's hacking up women in the night? And just who is the Hackettsville Hacker anyway?

Limbs is over-the-top and riddled with dark humor. It's a nod to 90's horror movies with it's genre-bending blend of buddy/romantic comedy with serial mutilation and sexual strangeness.  While it did seem a little long for the subject, but over all it was a lot of fun and I enjoyed my time with these oddball characters.

A fun and slightly sick romp of a novella. 
 
Limbs is available from Grindhouse Press

LIMBS BY TIM MEYER

I am not a monster.

Ray Bridges, a professional electronics salesman, is looking for love in all the strange places. He spends most nights sneaking into support group meetings for the disabled in order to satisfy his deepest, darkest desires—to hook up with unfortunate, down-on-their-luck women who’ve recently lost a limb. There's a name for Ray’s preference; it’s called acrotomophilia, a paraphilia involving amputees.

Conflicted, Ray wishes he could change. But he can’t. His body won’t let him. Nor will his mind. He’s destined to live this life, forever. That is . . . until he meets the perfect girl. Falls in love with her. Only problem: her arms and legs are attached.

Unable to find her attractive, Ray embarks on a dark, twisted journey of self-discovery, one that will force him to make an impossible choice: abandon his pursuit of true love or find a way to make it work, even if that means getting the girl of his dreams to shed an appendage.

Weird, comedic, and often raunchy, Limbs is the craziest love story ever told.

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