Blog Tour – Tales From the Coffee Pot

Title: Tales From the Coffee Pot

Author: Jim Ody

Genre: Thriller/ Horror

My Rating:

Source: ARC

Synopsis:

For the first time, the best of Jim Ody’s published short-stories are together in one anthology, including four previously unreleased.
Twelve twisted tales that touch on psychological/thriller, horror and YA, including:
A detective sent to a travelling circus to find a missing boy; A guy with a mysterious trunk must meet a stranger at a motel to survive; A doll turns up and becomes a little girl’s best friend. Then things turn strange; A surprise birthday party is memorable, if only the birthday boy survives; and a group of orphans find the world is about to end…

1 The Reveal
2 A Moth in The Jar
3 The I-Scream Van
4 Teaching Tom
5 Boat Trip
6 The Trunk
7 The Day
8 A Doll Named Sasha
9 Surprise Party
10 The Orphans
11 Hide & Seek
12 Virgin Women From Outta Space

My Review:

I’d like to thank Zoe from Zooloo’s Book Tours for arranging this tour and inviting me to take part. With Jim Ody being a fellow Swindonian how could I not take part in his blog tour and help promote a local book?

It is safe to say that this collection of short stories was dark and twisted. As I embarked on each one I never knew what I was going to get and even whilst reading I couldn’t quite work out where each story would lead. Jim Ody’s dark sense of humour and clever wit was sprinkled throughout the book, often leaving me with chills.

What I love about short stories is you can pick them up when you have a spare 20 minutes without losing track of where you are in the story. Each tale was unique and very different from the others but all had clever twists and moments of surprise.

Some of the stories were longer than the others but I still found myself flying through them. Some of my favourites were; The Reveal, Boat Trip, The Trunk and Surprise Party. These tales in particular shocked me with their revelations and characters.

A brilliant, disturbing collection of stories that will leave readers shocked and completely absorbed!

Author Info:

Jim writes dark psychological/thrillers, Horror and YA books that have endings you won’t see coming, and favours stories packed with wit. He has written over a dozen novels and many more short-stories spanning many genres.

Jim has a very strange sense of humour and is often considered a little odd. When not writing he will be found playing the drums, watching football and eating chocolate. He lives with his long-suffering wife, three beautiful children and two indignant cats in Swindon, Wiltshire UK.

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Facebook: www.facebook.com/JimOdyAuthor

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jimodyauthor/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jim_Ody_Author

Purchase Links

Amazon UK : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tales-Coffee-Pot-Jim-Ody-ebook/dp/B0927KV4VK

Amazon US : https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Coffee-Pot-Jim-Ody-ebook/dp/B0927KV4VK