Faulty Bones
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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- $2.99
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- $2.99
Publisher Description
Destined love thwarted by a supernatural con game:
Two bankrupt card players, lured by black magic and a casino-chip counterfeiting scam, get lost within the folds of a world no longer true.
Faulty Bones follows the journey of Mike and Amy—a couple of restless drifters who misdirect their anchors to the wrong part of town. Can they overcome her gambling addiction and his tenuous grasp of reality to find their way back on the grid? A pair of scheming mobsters, a demonic con man, and a series of ripples in the sands of time won’t make the going easy.
Nothing in this novel proves to be as it seems. Are you a clever enough detective to guess the secrets before they're revealed?
“The affecting depiction of Amy’s struggle to right her life, along with the complex plot, give the novel depth and excitement.”—Kirkus Reviews
Customer Reviews
Couldn't put it down
What happened in New Orleans at Snake Eyes Casino the day before Memorial Day? A local card player named Mike had been living on the edge, to the point he’d been sleeping in the backseat of his car. But now he’s clearly fallen off, tumbling backward through time, encountering a chain-smoking metaphysical tour guide at every turn when he isn’t bumping heads with luckless Amy.
As for Amy, she’s living in an ordinary world, one with no hint of the supernatural other than the demons fueling her gambling addiction and reckless lifestyle. She falls hard for Mike, oblivious to his predicament, and he falls for her, desperate to claw himself forward in time to help get her out of the jam she’s gotten into.
Amy is passing counterfeit chips at casinos for a couple of Russian mobsters. She’s one misstep away from either prison time or the wrong end of a meat cleaver.
Faulty Bones is a hoot. The author has a way with words and plenty of humor to go along with them. I read an article likening this novel to a shaggy dog story, and I can see the resemblance to such classics as Alice’s Restaurant or any one of Garrison Keillor’s Lake Woebegone tales. Those stories, like this one, are all about the voice. All about the ride. I found elements of Rounders in the interesting, well-explained, and easy to understand poker hands, a dash of Memento in Mike’s backward descent through time, and even a bit of old-time detective novels in the seediness of the card-playing locales.
Both Mike and Amy present their sometimes intersecting and often worlds-apart stories in engaging first person present narratives that have me lingering on various passages before turning the page. The experience is like drinking two beers, the first for thirst and the second for taste.
Loved this story from start to finish