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Title: Poison Shy
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Stacey Madden
Narrator: Roy Samuelson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-30-12
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Brandon Galloway, a 29-year-old nobody with a history of dead-end jobs, lands a position with a pest control company. When he meets 21-year-old wild child Melanie Blaxley while fumigating her apartment for bed bugs, her vulgar sensuality and reckless promiscuity both attract and repulse him. Before long her world of crazy sex and petty crime starts to take its toll on Brandons sanity, and he wonders how much more of her he can stand. Then she disappears, and Brandon must find out if it is all just a prank, or if Melanies wild ways finally led her into danger.
A hair-raising thrill ride through the bars and backstreets of a fictional small town, this fast-paced and darkly funny debut novel explores obsession, fear, and the threat of other people.
Editorial Reviews:
Brandon Galloways new post at a pest control company seems like just another aimless job in his young, directionless life. That is until he stumbles upon the reckless and wild Melanie Blaxley. Poison Shy, performed convincingly by the gritty veteran Roy Samuelson, is a fast-paced, oddly funny thrill of an audiobook that follows Brandon through a dark world of backstreets and deception. Brandon is both fascinated and repulsed by Melanie who, along with her unrepressed sexual ways, has a penchant for petty crime. Its a habit, however, that Brandon quickly learns might lead unthinkable danger.
Members Reviews:
A dark and bloody tale that sucked me in!
4 1/2 stars!!!
I was not sure what to expect when I started reading Poison Shy, but it had some amazing blurbs on the back of the book, and I was looking forward to seeing if they were true. I'm thrilled to say those blurbs are spot on, and I spent a thoroughly enjoyable four hours inhaling it on the drive back from my vacation a few days ago. Madden's writing is spare and to the point, and his dialog is snappy and realistic, and fits the tone of this all too brief story perfectly.
The story is told from Brandon Galloway's point of view, a twenty-nine year old unmotivated and directionless man who can't seem to escape the dreary small Canadian town of Fraynes. He's just started working for an extermination company called Kill `Em All and is simply happy to have a regular job. But one day his uneventful life comes unhinged when he and co-worker Chad get a call to rid an apartment of bed bugs. There he meets the beautiful but unsettling Melanie and her unstable roommate Darcy. Brandon is instantly attracted to the sexually alluring Melanie, but his low self-esteem prevents him from asking her out. So he does the next best thing: he begins to stalk her. After an "accidental" encounter at her college library, he snags a date with her, and that's when the real trouble starts.
As they begin an awkward relationship, the aggressively overprotective Darcy manages to thwart Brandon's every plan to spend time with Melanie, and with the help of lots of booze and just plain bad luck, Brandon's life is about to sink further into the toilet than it already is.
If you're looking for lovable characters, then Poison Shy probably isn't the book for you. Madden takes the idea of character flaws to a whole new level. Melanie in particular is brash and at times disgusting, and she tends to act like one of the boys whenever she's hanging out with Darcy. She sleeps around, drinks a lot, and is a truly annoying character.
