Braddock's Falls

by Jim Towns

All Tom Bosco wants to do is spend a relaxing summer at Braddock’s Falls Nudist Resort, where he can write his newest fantasy novel. But serial killer Winston Conroe has other plans.

Now, between running an ongoing role-playing campaign and erotic encounters with his beautiful new girlfriend Natalie, Tom must help protect his newfound nudist friends from a deranged killer hell-bent on punishing the wickedness he believes goes on at Braddock’s Falls.

Author and filmmaker Jim Towns takes you on a journey that could never be filmed a story of freedom, love, fantasy, sex and chainsaws set deep in the mountains of Western Pennsylvania.



“At times tongue in cheek and others edge of your seat - Towns delivers a marvelous Stephen King meets Dan Fante horror crime thriller that is essential summer reading for all freaky bibliophiles.”
— Stephen J. Golds, author of Always the Dead

187 pages, Paperback

Published April 12, 2023

Reviews

[Peter Topside · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a bit hard to get through. The biggest flaw for me was the total lack of pacing and flow throughout. We alternate between a first-person POV in our lead, Tom, a third-person POV in our antagonist, Winston, and even a few times, in that same POV, about Dungeons and Dragons. It made everything feel extremely choppy and hard to follow. Any flow that was created just kept getting interrupted by those aforementioned points, in addition to the beginning and ending feeling like glorified information dumps. The plots points, including the entire nudist experience and whether this was a character dive versus a serial killer-type premise, all lacked context and nothing felt like it organically blended together. I think there were a lot of easy ways to make this a more palatable read. Focusing on one character in a singular POV and not rushing through idea to idea, as a means to an end, would have resolved much of the issues I found here. This was my least favorite Jim Towns book and, if you wanted to get a better read from the author, I would recommend some of his other stories that I had much better experiences with, including Powdered Frankenstein, Bad Coffee and the Bomb, and Bloodsucker City.