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Another long drive related to my day job gave me time to start on a new audiobook already in my library: They Ate The Waitress? by D.N. Schmidt. In a future America where absolute anarchy reigns, everything goes. Even an exclusive restaurant that caters to cannibals.
Let’s get something out of the way right away: This is gruesome and horrifying. It’s also hilarious!
I’ve never felt so divided by a book. This is far, far outside my comfort zone as a reader, but the jokes just keep on coming and I find myself laughing every time. It’s going to be an effort of will to finish this, because I just cringe at every description of what goes on in the restaurant. But on the other hand, it’s a joy to find a self-published writer whose “comedy” is actually funny. Plus, Montana is mentioned! Always a way to put a book into my good graces.
If you’ve got the stomach for the darkest of dark humor, you should check out They Ate the Waitress? by D.N. Schmidt.
And hey, the pig-human hybrids in my Exile War series are also cannibalistic, but I keep it mostly off-screen or fade to black. If you’re interested in military sci fi where the bad guys have this most evil of all evil traits, you can try Onslaught, the first book of the series, for free in the U.S. and 99 cents internationally.