Bill Floyd
Author of The Killer's Wife: A Novel
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J'ai épousé un Serial Killer 2 copies
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- Floyd, Bill
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- USA
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- Morrisville, North Carolina, USA
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- Appalachian State University
- Awards and honors
- Prix Edgar-Allan-Poe
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TW FOR MENTIONS OF POSSIBLE INCEST
I have no idea if the author, at times, intended the following of his Supremely Amazing Mother Goddess character. Nina Mosley is so boring, flat, and lacking in agency that I really don't know. Her sole characterization is serial killer's wife, such that it's this book's title. But she also...has a weird fixation on her son. Like almost romantic. She frames him in terms that are used to describe partners a lot, and she compares her son to her ex--notice I didn't use the phrase "his father"--in ways that are increasingly uncomfortable. Her son is eight, and his father much older. Even for a single mother who's traumatized, the amount and -ways- she pays attention is bizarre. In the chapter transitions between five and six of the edition I read, she blabs and blathers about her son with some deeply unfortunate implications. The very next sentence that begins a new chapter is a sexual reference to her ex-husband, and the paragraph itself is about sex. There is -no- transition or indication that it's an ADULT MAN she's talking about because the last paragraph of the last chapter? was about her young son. AUTHOR, YOU ARE GROSS. I firmly believe someone pointed out the implication to the author before the book was published and he probably hollered that the person was a pervert, not his beloved, bland, boring (haha alliteration) poorly-defined creation.
TRIGGER WARNING OVER
So the book goes on like this for three hundred pages. The supposed action-packed final chapter was BORING. The villains are cardboard cutouts and provide heaps of exposition. A review I read stated that this book was boring and offered nothing new. The author tried for "wife knew and was too shocked and horrified to do anything," and did not succeed. Don't waste your time with this pointless drivel.… (more)