Bizarro Fiction Month Day 15: Slime Night!

Ah, young love! It has inspired great works such as Romeo and Juliet, and it's inspired pieces of crap like Twilight. It is also the subject of  Slime Night!, by William Pauley III, which is  my review for day 15 of Bizarro Fiction Month.

This is a very short and strange tale of young love (or lust). It is the tale of two high school students who are in love with the class slut. They are the only two guys in the school, and possible the town, that she hasn't had sex with yet. They decide to play a strange game of competitive pinball for her "love," not that she knows anything about the game. The pinball machines the use are called Slime Night! and have an odd feature called "gushers," which when triggered cause the pinball machine to become covered in slime. That's pretty much the only really bizarro thing about the story. The rest of it can be attributed to standard adolescent male stupidity, and remember, I am speaking as a former adolescent male.

It's a good story, and well worth the low price for the ebook edition.

Bizarro Fiction Month Day 14: Muscle Memory

I'm now at day 14, of Bizarro Fiction Month and I've decided to review the other New Bizarro Authors Series book that I have scheduled.

Steve Lowe's Muscle Memory is a bizarro version of the fairly standard body swap story. I know I've seen the basic concept done before about one billion times.  This story puts an interesting bit of a bizarro spin on it.

In this version, the population  an entire town has its bodies switched with whatever being they were closest to when the switching occurred. There are a lot of husbands and wives switching places, a cat and a dog, and a man and a sheep (resulting in the inevitable bestiality jokes). There's even a scene with a husband who swapped bodies with a babysitter he was cheating on his wife with, and who is now being chased by both his angry wife and the girl's father.

The story is entertaining and funny, but way to short; I think I managed to finish it in about an hour. It just felt like the ending was really not much of an ending at all, and that there must be more story. While the ebook is very reasonably priced, this feels more like half a story than a whole story, so I really can't recommend it as highly as I'd like.

Bizarro Fiction Month Day 13: Shatnerquake

Well it's day 13 of Bizarro Fiction Month, and I have a very important question to ask:  Who doesn't like William Shatner? OK, I expect there are a few people who don't, but that was really a rhetorical question, because I'm about to review Shatnerquake by Jeff Burk.  This book is all about Shatner.

William Shatner goes to a Shatner convention, and some followers of Bruce Campbell set off a fiction bomb that somehow causes all of the characters played by Shatner to become real. The only goal of these characters is to kill the real Shatner. What follows is a lot of gore and humor and then some more more gore.

You get to see Shatner fighting Kirk and Shatner fighting animated Kirk. We see the Priceline Negotiator in action. We see Rescue 911 Shatner describing the various gruesome accidents that happen.There were just so many different versions of Shatner that I just wish more time had been spent with them.

That's really my only complaint; this book very short, even for a bizarro book. I really think it could have been expanded a bit and actually been improved. Even so, I really enjoyed this book. I thought it was funny, and I love funny books.