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A review by ashley_books_cats_judo
Bad Parts by Brandon McNulty
3.0
Thank you to Netgalley, Midnight Point Press and the author Brandon McNulty for allowing me to listen to this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.
I'm a recent convert to audiobooks and I don't know why it took me so long since I love podcasts! The narrator of Bad Parts - Ellie Gossage - had an enjoyable voice to listen to. I however wish they had allowed her to either just speak in one voice the entire time or had multiple readers. I was thrown off in the beginning when she was speaking in different voices for different characters.
Into the book, this was listed as a horror but it's fairly cheesy - maybe the extra voices the narrator was using added to this effect. This is also listed as book #1 but I don't see how there would be a follow up as I felt everything was wrapped by the end.
The story begins with Ash Hudson who is a 30 year old guitarist in a rock band called... you guessed it - Bad Parts. They're at a show and her hand gets mangled which would end her career. She needs to find a way to fix her hand and quickly before their next show. Which leads her to returning to her hometown of Hollow Hills, Pennsylvania. There's a demon called Snare that lives in the creek that will exchange "bad parts" for good ones. This involves a secret group of people referred to as Traders. Ash talks to Snare and gets offered a deal that sounds too good to be true but she wants to trust the demon. She has to convince estranged family members to help her if the deal with Snare is going to work.
I found parts of this like a murderous fog completely comical and not really a horror but overall it was an enjoyable listen.
I'm a recent convert to audiobooks and I don't know why it took me so long since I love podcasts! The narrator of Bad Parts - Ellie Gossage - had an enjoyable voice to listen to. I however wish they had allowed her to either just speak in one voice the entire time or had multiple readers. I was thrown off in the beginning when she was speaking in different voices for different characters.
Into the book, this was listed as a horror but it's fairly cheesy - maybe the extra voices the narrator was using added to this effect. This is also listed as book #1 but I don't see how there would be a follow up as I felt everything was wrapped by the end.
The story begins with Ash Hudson who is a 30 year old guitarist in a rock band called... you guessed it - Bad Parts. They're at a show and her hand gets mangled which would end her career. She needs to find a way to fix her hand and quickly before their next show. Which leads her to returning to her hometown of Hollow Hills, Pennsylvania. There's a demon called Snare that lives in the creek that will exchange "bad parts" for good ones. This involves a secret group of people referred to as Traders. Ash talks to Snare and gets offered a deal that sounds too good to be true but she wants to trust the demon. She has to convince estranged family members to help her if the deal with Snare is going to work.
I found parts of this like a murderous fog completely comical and not really a horror but overall it was an enjoyable listen.