*This book is intended for mature readers only.
At 30 years old, Bart is looking for his perfect woman, a match for him in every way, and is obsessed with the statistics around what women want. But with a dead-end job, rotund bod,y and suspect habits, how would he find such a woman?
The horror comes from Bart’s proclivity for contaminating customers’ food at his fast food job and murder. My first complaint is the physical book:
This story was originally part of an anthology, and as you can see in comparison to my hand, it’s really small. I am shocked I was able to get this, as in my professional librarian’s opinion, books like this are a shelving nightmare. I expect them to vanish either by being stolen or lost among the regular-sized materials. What does this have to do with the content? Nothing, I walk about what I want. Deal with it. If the author wanted this as a physical copy on its own, I don’t see any better way of doing it other than a pamphlet or holding on to it until you write a bunch of other stories to pad things out to a regular-ish sized book. This is a very mild complaint, and I don’t hold it against the story itself.
Reading this gave me the same sort of feeling I had when I watched August Underground, only this was significantly less boring. The same casual tone used when speaking of his normal actions, Bart uses with the obscene acts he commits. It’s not poorly written, and the twist ending gave me a chuckle, but overall, this was just an okay read. 2.5 out of 5.
