Summary:
Art comes in many forms.
A disturbed undertaker.
Famous pornographers from the Golden Age of adult films.
And a couple of high school graduates looking for a good time.
Brought together by a mysterious red dust, these unique artists will collaborate on the most terrifying work of art known to man...
My Thoughts:
The story is slow at first, and I almost put it down completely, but then I just couldn't stop reading it.
Harold is an undertaker, in the business with his sister, but he doesn't like her interfering in his part of the job. It's work as normal until the next few bodies that he must prepare are former lovers of his. Something takes over him, and he keeps certain parts of each body, eventually stitching them together to make them into one body. Though I am still confused about how his part in the ending happens. He's definitely my favorite character here.
Kandi is an older porn star who ends up with her old film director, Rutger, on a secret project. She's basically the voice of reason in this book, along with Toby. Rutger just wants to film the project and then leave the industry.
Toby and Jessica are the graduates on vacation for the summer. They coincidentally end up in the next house over to the filming, and go to investigate. They get invited to join, but only Jessica agrees. The more Jessica films scenes, the more bloodthirsty she gets, and becomes a sort of conduit for the weird thing that's lingering around.
The whole supernatural aspect was very poorly constructed, which made it hard to understand.
You can definitely tell that this was written by a man, the way that the female characters are described.
It is a pretty disturbing book (in terms of like violence and gore). I doubt that this was intentional, but it could be read as the dark side of pornography and maybe an argument as to why it's bad.
I'm glad that I read it, but I doubt that I'll pick it up again.
My Rating: 3 stars
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