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Shit Luck
"One of the most exciting new voices to emerge in years. A deft, masterful mix of both bizarro and horror."--Brian Keene, author of The Rising and Ghoul "Dark and grim and surreal." --Electric Literature Mondays suck. You get mugged, your car won't start, you miss the bus, and your stylist burns a bald spot into your head. Suddenly you're single and unemployed, and the only friend you have left is a cat. By Tuesday, you've been murdered. But death isn't the end. You find yourself on an odyssey between weird worlds, reborn each time you die, stalked obsessively by the man who killed you. Even in death, you just can't seem to catch a break. Call it Mercury in retrograde, call it Murphy's law, call it . . . SHIT LUCK
94 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 18, 2016
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September 20, 2017
Where's Fuckface?
You are having The. Worst. Week. Ever. You've been fired from your job, your rental car caught on fire, and when your best friend convinced you to go to a party, you died. You wake up next to an overweight baby-man who tells you that you will keep on dying until you are finally dust. But wait, there's more. You are also being chased through your death cycles by a maniac who cannot speak. He grunts at you with murder in his eyes. Who is that coming around the corner? Another you? Well, as they say, death goes on. This book has the best closing line ever (no, don't read it first). I had great fun traversing this twilight zone of the afterlife. Even if the moon did look like a butthole.
You are having The. Worst. Week. Ever. You've been fired from your job, your rental car caught on fire, and when your best friend convinced you to go to a party, you died. You wake up next to an overweight baby-man who tells you that you will keep on dying until you are finally dust. But wait, there's more. You are also being chased through your death cycles by a maniac who cannot speak. He grunts at you with murder in his eyes. Who is that coming around the corner? Another you? Well, as they say, death goes on. This book has the best closing line ever (no, don't read it first). I had great fun traversing this twilight zone of the afterlife. Even if the moon did look like a butthole.
January 3, 2017
Read 12/30/16
4 Stars - Strongly Recommended, esp for those who are looking to get into the Bizarro genre
Pages: 141
Publisher: Eraserhead Press
Released: November 2016
When I was younger, much much younger, I had a recurring dream in which I would awaken early in the morning, flat on my back in bed. When I opened my eyes, I noticed that the bedroom ceiling had dropped, so low that if I had attempted to sit up, I would bash my head against it. But as my eyes began to adjust to the grey morning light, I realized that it wasn't the ceiling. It was a huge spider's web. And as I peered more closely into it, and to my left and right, I could see things suspended in the webbing. Arms. Ankles and feet. Thighs. All oozing blood down the various strands that held them in place. Was that my sister up there? My parents?
At this point in my dream, I would start to panic and then I would hear a scuttling sound from further down the wall, towards what was the corner of my room. I knew it was a giant spider and I knew once it sensed I was awake, it would come for me. So, gathering all of my courage, I would roll myself towards the end of my bed, and softly lower myself to the ground, where I would crawl my ass across the floor and start to slide down the stairs to the living room. I could barely breathe, and I was constantly looking over my shoulder to see if the spider was coming, always hearing that strange clicking and tapping noise that I imaged was coming from its forelegs and monstrous, salivating mouth.
The spider would never get me - some times it would give chase and I would wake up before I got downstairs. Other times, I made it all the way down the stairs, through the living room, and into my parents room before I could hear it approach.
You need to understand that I am fucking terrified of spiders. This dream was hell to me. And when I would wake up from it, I remember wondering what would happen if I died in the dream, what if that spider finally caught me? What if there was no heaven, what if I got trapped in this dream, in this terrifying, panicky escape from becoming some giant spider's dinner, that just kept playing on a continuous loop, until I finally lost the will to fight it and just let the damn thing get me?
Tiffany Scandal's SHIT LUCK brought this dream right the fuck back to mind. Her nameless protagonist is having the shittest shit day ever. Her boyfriend dumps her in a text, her car breaks down, the rental she picks up is vandalized and set on fire, and when she gets to work, her boss fires her. When her bff hears the news the next day, she drags our girl out to a frat party in an effort to cheer her up. But all it does is depress her more, until she notices a strange, older man wallflowering it up and attempts to strike up a conversation. A few drinks later, she's laying on the dance floor, dying.
What follows is pure fever dream perfection.
Our now-dead protagonist is met by a doughy dude who is also dead, and he proceeds to school her on the rules of the after life. There is no heaven. There is no reunion with her loved ones. There is no haunting or spooking of the living. Only an infinite series of increasingly bizarre worlds in which she will randomly "spawn" into each time she dies. Like in a video game. With unlimited "lives". She will remain in her current body, and that body will continue to age. Until she turns to dust and disappears forever.
And oh yeah, that strange, older man who she tried chatting up at the party? He appears to be chasing her from world to world, where she continues to die at his hands. Over. and. Over. and. Over again.
It's like my spider dream, only much more gory and glorious. And try as she might, there is no escaping the brutal deaths her pursuer has planned for her. It's perfectly told and it's fabulously fast paced. I read the entire book in one sitting.
It's quite the departure from her previous novel JIGSAW YOUTH, though I get the feeling Tiffany has sprinkled some of her own experiences into this character's backstory.
It's also quite the little mindfuck and I highly recommend it as a gateway book into the bizarro genre. There is gore and bodily fluids and lots of cursing, without all the gross hardcore body horror shit.
Tiffany's one badass book writing bitch. And I can't wait to see what she comes up with next!
4 Stars - Strongly Recommended, esp for those who are looking to get into the Bizarro genre
Pages: 141
Publisher: Eraserhead Press
Released: November 2016
When I was younger, much much younger, I had a recurring dream in which I would awaken early in the morning, flat on my back in bed. When I opened my eyes, I noticed that the bedroom ceiling had dropped, so low that if I had attempted to sit up, I would bash my head against it. But as my eyes began to adjust to the grey morning light, I realized that it wasn't the ceiling. It was a huge spider's web. And as I peered more closely into it, and to my left and right, I could see things suspended in the webbing. Arms. Ankles and feet. Thighs. All oozing blood down the various strands that held them in place. Was that my sister up there? My parents?
At this point in my dream, I would start to panic and then I would hear a scuttling sound from further down the wall, towards what was the corner of my room. I knew it was a giant spider and I knew once it sensed I was awake, it would come for me. So, gathering all of my courage, I would roll myself towards the end of my bed, and softly lower myself to the ground, where I would crawl my ass across the floor and start to slide down the stairs to the living room. I could barely breathe, and I was constantly looking over my shoulder to see if the spider was coming, always hearing that strange clicking and tapping noise that I imaged was coming from its forelegs and monstrous, salivating mouth.
The spider would never get me - some times it would give chase and I would wake up before I got downstairs. Other times, I made it all the way down the stairs, through the living room, and into my parents room before I could hear it approach.
You need to understand that I am fucking terrified of spiders. This dream was hell to me. And when I would wake up from it, I remember wondering what would happen if I died in the dream, what if that spider finally caught me? What if there was no heaven, what if I got trapped in this dream, in this terrifying, panicky escape from becoming some giant spider's dinner, that just kept playing on a continuous loop, until I finally lost the will to fight it and just let the damn thing get me?
Tiffany Scandal's SHIT LUCK brought this dream right the fuck back to mind. Her nameless protagonist is having the shittest shit day ever. Her boyfriend dumps her in a text, her car breaks down, the rental she picks up is vandalized and set on fire, and when she gets to work, her boss fires her. When her bff hears the news the next day, she drags our girl out to a frat party in an effort to cheer her up. But all it does is depress her more, until she notices a strange, older man wallflowering it up and attempts to strike up a conversation. A few drinks later, she's laying on the dance floor, dying.
What follows is pure fever dream perfection.
Our now-dead protagonist is met by a doughy dude who is also dead, and he proceeds to school her on the rules of the after life. There is no heaven. There is no reunion with her loved ones. There is no haunting or spooking of the living. Only an infinite series of increasingly bizarre worlds in which she will randomly "spawn" into each time she dies. Like in a video game. With unlimited "lives". She will remain in her current body, and that body will continue to age. Until she turns to dust and disappears forever.
And oh yeah, that strange, older man who she tried chatting up at the party? He appears to be chasing her from world to world, where she continues to die at his hands. Over. and. Over. and. Over again.
It's like my spider dream, only much more gory and glorious. And try as she might, there is no escaping the brutal deaths her pursuer has planned for her. It's perfectly told and it's fabulously fast paced. I read the entire book in one sitting.
It's quite the departure from her previous novel JIGSAW YOUTH, though I get the feeling Tiffany has sprinkled some of her own experiences into this character's backstory.
It's also quite the little mindfuck and I highly recommend it as a gateway book into the bizarro genre. There is gore and bodily fluids and lots of cursing, without all the gross hardcore body horror shit.
Tiffany's one badass book writing bitch. And I can't wait to see what she comes up with next!
February 6, 2017
Shit Luck is a darkly humorous and ultraviolent Quantum Leap-style tale, taking place across multiple universes in which dying is just the beginning. The voice employed in this (2nd person and very casual) are a BIG PART of what makes this weird little novel read even weirder. And believe me, once it gets weird, Ms. Scandal doesn’t pump the brakes. Each successive vignette - and each world the nameless protagonist must suffer through - gives us slightly more insight into her character while (more often than not) heaping on the slapstick. I mean, the main character literally slips on a banana peel at one point - ya know, right before she gets murdered for the 12th time. Enjoyable and fast-paced, this book never takes itself too seriously, and that’s what I loved about it. Bravo!
December 15, 2016
By far Tiffany Scandal's most bizzaroesque effort to date. Think of SHIT LUCK as Dario Argento's sci-fi movie that never happened. Scandal explores the concepts of victimhood and fate in this little tome in this unique, intense and lively voice of hers. There's a LOT of experimentation in there: a second person narrative, a comedic angle, a bizarre, loopy narrative, it's a demanding, but engaging and original reading experience.
I gotta say I'm still a little befuddled by it. There were a lot of variables in SHIT LUCK that I have trouble wrapping my mind around, but I know I enjoyed the hell out of it the same way I enjoy performance art. It dragged me into uncharted territory.
I gotta say I'm still a little befuddled by it. There were a lot of variables in SHIT LUCK that I have trouble wrapping my mind around, but I know I enjoyed the hell out of it the same way I enjoy performance art. It dragged me into uncharted territory.
January 15, 2025
I liked the style and tone and was hooked from the first page. The novella is restless and without a time out. However, I got lost at one point and struggled to get back on track. Minus one star for that.
February 9, 2017
An interdimensional somewhat-serial-killer slasher romp, filled with luck so shit you'll wonder why you ever laid claim to shit luck yourself.
Reminded me of a quote I liked from Ottessa Moshfegh's recent KCRW interview, when speaking of her novel Eileen: something like, "She doesn't get what she wants, but she doesn't get what she doesn't want. And that's kind of like life." Scandal's tale deliberately doesn't offer that balance, but I think the message is similar, and just as reassuring.
Highly recommended!
Reminded me of a quote I liked from Ottessa Moshfegh's recent KCRW interview, when speaking of her novel Eileen: something like, "She doesn't get what she wants, but she doesn't get what she doesn't want. And that's kind of like life." Scandal's tale deliberately doesn't offer that balance, but I think the message is similar, and just as reassuring.
Highly recommended!
January 12, 2024
I read this book way back in 2017 or something, and I still think about it damn near 7 years later, on occasion. Not sure why I didn't write a review for it back then, but trust me now when I say that it sticks with you.
December 2, 2016
Here we have a book that is fresh and different. Tiffany Scandal shows both her depth as a writer as well as the depth that can be found in the Bizarro Fiction movement. Not only is this story told in the second person, which is unique in any genre, but it gives us a different type of surrealist expression that is not as common as one might expect. Those new to Bizarro or those who merely dabble may be used to such commonalities as mutant tentacle limbs, talking genitals, pizza feet and the like. While those things are always a good time (as far as this reviewer is concerned), Scandal gives us a more frightening dose of the surreal that falls into the realm of the cerebral and psychological.
I sometimes think of what kind of hell a person who doesn't pick up their dog's bowel movements deserves. And on the few occasions that I've walked my dogs and forgotten to bring poop bags, I've wondered what would happen if I were to die before I could go back home to get said bags and never be able to return to pick up the poop. Would my hell be what I had wished upon so many less responsible dog owners? Shit Luck gave me all the motivation I need to never again forget to bring poop bags on my daily dog walks. I don't ever want to be the main character of this book, and trust me, neither do you.
I recommend Shit Luck not only because it was a fun, scary, thoughtful and satisfying read, but because it may just do your conscience good and remind you to live every day as though you could die any second and be plunged into a non-stop loop of your worst fears and insecurities biting you on your rear end for all of eternity.
I sometimes think of what kind of hell a person who doesn't pick up their dog's bowel movements deserves. And on the few occasions that I've walked my dogs and forgotten to bring poop bags, I've wondered what would happen if I were to die before I could go back home to get said bags and never be able to return to pick up the poop. Would my hell be what I had wished upon so many less responsible dog owners? Shit Luck gave me all the motivation I need to never again forget to bring poop bags on my daily dog walks. I don't ever want to be the main character of this book, and trust me, neither do you.
I recommend Shit Luck not only because it was a fun, scary, thoughtful and satisfying read, but because it may just do your conscience good and remind you to live every day as though you could die any second and be plunged into a non-stop loop of your worst fears and insecurities biting you on your rear end for all of eternity.
August 17, 2022
Scrandal's Shit Luck oddly reminds me of A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but if you stripped everything that makes A Hitchhiker's Guide from A Hitchhiker's Guide and replaced it with a no bullshit, vulgar, sometimes very bloody, crudely hilarious story of death and strange alternate realities.
June 20, 2017
And now for something completely different...
On a visit to Portland this past March I bought this at the fabled Powell's Books. I was so excited to actually be able to buy this in a store. Where we live in Georgia, no book with this kind of title would be seen in a store, much less on a shelf within the reach of children. (Oh, Portland, magical land!) :)
Also, I'd heard a lot about Tiffany Scandal so I was stoked to pick it up.
So, about the book. I really like the way the story is told, with the narrator using the word "you" in reference to herself in the present tense. ("You're walking down a dark hall...) The set-up is genius! There is a lot of dark humor and the book gets more and more strange and off beat until it just suddenly ends and you're like, "What just happened to my brain?" One chapter consists entirely of the word "no". Haha! That's awesome! I guess maybe this is a bit experimental? It kind of reminded me of handmade 'zines I read as a teenager in the early 1990's. Anyway... I really enjoyed this book and definitely recommend it if you're looking for something odd, fun, and totally out of the norm.
On a visit to Portland this past March I bought this at the fabled Powell's Books. I was so excited to actually be able to buy this in a store. Where we live in Georgia, no book with this kind of title would be seen in a store, much less on a shelf within the reach of children. (Oh, Portland, magical land!) :)
Also, I'd heard a lot about Tiffany Scandal so I was stoked to pick it up.
So, about the book. I really like the way the story is told, with the narrator using the word "you" in reference to herself in the present tense. ("You're walking down a dark hall...) The set-up is genius! There is a lot of dark humor and the book gets more and more strange and off beat until it just suddenly ends and you're like, "What just happened to my brain?" One chapter consists entirely of the word "no". Haha! That's awesome! I guess maybe this is a bit experimental? It kind of reminded me of handmade 'zines I read as a teenager in the early 1990's. Anyway... I really enjoyed this book and definitely recommend it if you're looking for something odd, fun, and totally out of the norm.
April 6, 2022
“If you drop dead today would it alter the dynamics of anyone else’s life? Would they notice?”
“Shit Luck” by Tiffany Scandal gets a 3.5 out of 5 stars.
Cindy Clawford! Literally the worst day ever. From the moment her cat, Cindy, woke up to work to the party from hell, your luck was definitely shit.
This story is witty and comedic. A rollercoaster of bizarre versions of reincarnation and purgatory. It’s written as in 2nd person point of view and really allows the reader to be in their thoughts as the shitshow continually unfolds. As always, I always wish there’s more when I read a novella such as the controller and Lucien’s background. Overall, this is a fast-paced, fun read in bizarro horror.
Rating rounded up. Please visit my GoodReads or Instagram profile for more reviews. Thank you!
“Shit Luck” by Tiffany Scandal gets a 3.5 out of 5 stars.
Cindy Clawford! Literally the worst day ever. From the moment her cat, Cindy, woke up to work to the party from hell, your luck was definitely shit.
This story is witty and comedic. A rollercoaster of bizarre versions of reincarnation and purgatory. It’s written as in 2nd person point of view and really allows the reader to be in their thoughts as the shitshow continually unfolds. As always, I always wish there’s more when I read a novella such as the controller and Lucien’s background. Overall, this is a fast-paced, fun read in bizarro horror.
Rating rounded up. Please visit my GoodReads or Instagram profile for more reviews. Thank you!
November 23, 2016
Imagine a slasher movie where you're the final girl. And the first victim. And the second victim. Imagine that your killer only wants to kill you, and is willing to chase you through infinite lifetimes to end your life over and over again. Now imagine that every life you slip into has different rules, and moving sideways through doorways might just be the least of the complications you encounter. This is the slasher genre redefined for the bizarro crowd. This is crucial bizarro reading.
December 29, 2016
While probably best described as bizarro horror, a more playful side of Tiffany Scandal is showcased in Shit Luck. The worst day you can imagine just got even worse. Not only have you have been killed at the end of it, but the antagonist lives up to his name in the strongest sense of the word, continuing to find and kill you each time you are reborn into another world.
I fell for the protagonist immediately. The second person narrative is pulled off without a hiccup. Shit Luck is a potently surreal dark comedy that was a helluva a lot of fun to read, loaded with relevant, witty humor and vividly strange locales that never fail to surprise and captivate. Great stuff.
I fell for the protagonist immediately. The second person narrative is pulled off without a hiccup. Shit Luck is a potently surreal dark comedy that was a helluva a lot of fun to read, loaded with relevant, witty humor and vividly strange locales that never fail to surprise and captivate. Great stuff.
January 3, 2017
I really liked this concept, I really like where she went with it, I just felt that it wasn't complete. I think in an effort to get that dreamy abstract feel she opened up some plot holes that should have been filled. I understand leaving the story open ended but I really think there should have been some explanation of who or what or why Fuckhead was involved. I thought at the very least she would get to kill him at somepoint but the endless, answerless loop left something lacking. Maybe leaving something out would have had a better effect? If she had left out the blood circle with no explanation it would probably make me feel better about the story.
On the other hand, I loved Noprah. Loved.
On the other hand, I loved Noprah. Loved.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 1, 2018
In this book the main character is dying to get from one suck-as-all-hell scenario just to find herself landing in another shit-storm of a situation in continuum, never-ending. This book is a quick read but each world is so visual and meticulously crafted that it is easy to pick up, open, and get sucked right back into. The ending also contains a clever dismount that is fun to roll around the brain and giggle to on a shitty day.
November 13, 2017
Bonkers. Definitely my favorite thing I've read from Scandal.
September 10, 2021
I'm disappointed 😞
Wth happened? Why? How? I have so many questions. All grossly unanswered by this book. I want a refund... 😐
Wth happened? Why? How? I have so many questions. All grossly unanswered by this book. I want a refund... 😐
August 19, 2018
I really don’t know what the fuck I just read. It’s an incomplete thought. The concept is interesting but she didn’t do anything with it. It went nowhere. Just a pointless loop that ended in nothing with nothing. I mean if she’d at least explored a dynamic between Fuckhead and XXXXXX then maybe something? But it’s just some random dude she’s never met stalking her across dimensions and killing her with no purpose or emotion or anything. It’s not even about luck as an abstract concept like...??
I love bizarro fiction and weird fiction but this was missing a point. Like a sentence without a verb.
I love bizarro fiction and weird fiction but this was missing a point. Like a sentence without a verb.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 18, 2017
One of my favorite episodes of Family Guy is one where Stewie builds a portal machine that can take you to different dimensions. Stewie and Brian are using it to see a dimension without Christianity when the machine breaks down and they are trapped being randomly shuffled through these bizarre dimensions until they are able to fix the machine. Shit Luck reminds me of this episode in some respects except you have to die to change dimensions and in this story and the main character's name is XXXXXXX. She is having a really shitty time at life in general.
The story starts off with XXXXXXX having a whole host of run-ins with really bad luck. She gets mugged, her stylist burns a bald spot into her scalp, and she loses her job all in one day! Some other bad shit happens too but Scandal does a much better and funnier job of telling the story. After coming home from this awful day she is convinced by a friend to hit up a frat party she is not really keen on. She is murdered at that party and learns that when you die all you really do is shift dimensions. This is where the book really takes a turn for the absurd and grotesque. Also, to make matters worse, her killer can cross dimensions and kill her over and over. The book is paced well and keeps you engaged as you cross dimensions with the main character as she tries to evade her killer. I also want to note how the book is formatted even helps with the pacing of the story, not to mention the beautiful cover. The story isn't the only cool thing about the book.
I am not an aficionado of Bizarro fiction but I do dabble my toes in it every now and then. I felt like Scandal was a safe bet since I really enjoyed her las book, Jigsaw Youth, a novella of contemporary punk rock beat generation style vignettes. Shit Luck definitely has the over the top absurdity commonly found in Bizarro books, which in the wrong hands can get on my nerves, but Shit Luck is funny and not exploitative in that way. It has an edge and satirical elements that make it relevant and keep it interesting without being corny. Overall I really enjoyed the book. I am learning as I read Scandal's work that she has some versatility in her arsenal. It makes me look forward to what she drops next.
The story starts off with XXXXXXX having a whole host of run-ins with really bad luck. She gets mugged, her stylist burns a bald spot into her scalp, and she loses her job all in one day! Some other bad shit happens too but Scandal does a much better and funnier job of telling the story. After coming home from this awful day she is convinced by a friend to hit up a frat party she is not really keen on. She is murdered at that party and learns that when you die all you really do is shift dimensions. This is where the book really takes a turn for the absurd and grotesque. Also, to make matters worse, her killer can cross dimensions and kill her over and over. The book is paced well and keeps you engaged as you cross dimensions with the main character as she tries to evade her killer. I also want to note how the book is formatted even helps with the pacing of the story, not to mention the beautiful cover. The story isn't the only cool thing about the book.
I am not an aficionado of Bizarro fiction but I do dabble my toes in it every now and then. I felt like Scandal was a safe bet since I really enjoyed her las book, Jigsaw Youth, a novella of contemporary punk rock beat generation style vignettes. Shit Luck definitely has the over the top absurdity commonly found in Bizarro books, which in the wrong hands can get on my nerves, but Shit Luck is funny and not exploitative in that way. It has an edge and satirical elements that make it relevant and keep it interesting without being corny. Overall I really enjoyed the book. I am learning as I read Scandal's work that she has some versatility in her arsenal. It makes me look forward to what she drops next.
September 18, 2025
Stream of thought which sometimes reminded me of a nightmare on elm street 5 and often reminded me of hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy. An overall jumbled effort, but at least it was short.
I think children or teens would enjoy more than a mature reader.
I think children or teens would enjoy more than a mature reader.
January 6, 2017
Review coming soon
December 11, 2016
I had a blast with S*** Luck. It was like a choose your own adventure where Tiffany Scandal picked out the most insane ride you could think of.
February 7, 2017
Best Scandal read to date. A fucked up multiverse of unfortunate events. A little Argento, a little Cronenberg, a whole lotta weird. Great stuff.
February 1, 2017
Good Book
March 19, 2018
This was a fun read, I couldnt help but feel sorry for the main character. The cover art is BEAUTIFUL!Very well written and i will for sure seek out more by Tiffany Sacandal in the future!
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October 17, 2020This book is like an exercise of “yes, and” with the best possible results. Lots of fun.
April 16, 2023
I don’t think I have ever read a book with so many typos in my life. How hard is it to proofread something? It had really great potential you could’ve just spent maybe 10 more minutes on it
March 30, 2017
It’s difficult to write a novel in second-person because the voice itself tends to distance the reader, combining that with the bizarro genre which tends to alienate some readers for its off the wall content and you have a recipe for disaster. Despite all of this SHIT LUCK happens to be inviting, warm, disgusting AND laugh out loud funny as hell. A fuck of a feat to pull off for any writer, but Tiffany Scandal nails it with aplomb.
Shit Luck follows the story of a nameless female protagonist having the worst couple days of her life: she burnt off a piece of her hair, she gets mugged, her car breaks down, she gets fired from her job of 6 years, and more. It follows Murphy’s Law: anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And this gets worse later on in the story when her friend invites her to a frat party to cheer her up after she lost her job, and she dies. No glitz or glamour, no crime. Frat Party. D E A D.
Unfortunately this isn’t the end of her luck, it’s just the start of a life after. Think of it like reincarnation, except you have no idea what life you’ll get, where you’ll be, or what year it is (a nice caveat is that you get to keep your own body). For instance, being reincarnated into a world where the only way you can go through any door successfully is by crab-walking. A little bit more into the narrative she dies. Again. Killed by a man she saw at the party. The exact same man.
And, so, a very strange and bloody cat and mouse chase begins with being killed and being sort of brought back to the life after time and time again.
Tiffany Scandal works magic into these strange scenarios and zany worlds. In between the wacky stuff going on in the narrative there are times where the character says something so deep and personal it harkens back one of the best things about this book: relatability. How we all deal with the bad, sometimes terrible things that life throws at it, the way life sucks ass and things don’t ever go right for you, how your love life is falling apart or not going at all, how you just wanna get laid, etc. It’s all in here.
This is one of the rare books that is just funny. No holds barred, laugh out loud funny with all the gruesome murder, period blood shooting out of you, a bitch of a mom, an actual baby-man. It’s a book that moves in breakneck speed that demands to be read in one sitting (I did).
Shit Luck follows the story of a nameless female protagonist having the worst couple days of her life: she burnt off a piece of her hair, she gets mugged, her car breaks down, she gets fired from her job of 6 years, and more. It follows Murphy’s Law: anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And this gets worse later on in the story when her friend invites her to a frat party to cheer her up after she lost her job, and she dies. No glitz or glamour, no crime. Frat Party. D E A D.
Unfortunately this isn’t the end of her luck, it’s just the start of a life after. Think of it like reincarnation, except you have no idea what life you’ll get, where you’ll be, or what year it is (a nice caveat is that you get to keep your own body). For instance, being reincarnated into a world where the only way you can go through any door successfully is by crab-walking. A little bit more into the narrative she dies. Again. Killed by a man she saw at the party. The exact same man.
And, so, a very strange and bloody cat and mouse chase begins with being killed and being sort of brought back to the life after time and time again.
Tiffany Scandal works magic into these strange scenarios and zany worlds. In between the wacky stuff going on in the narrative there are times where the character says something so deep and personal it harkens back one of the best things about this book: relatability. How we all deal with the bad, sometimes terrible things that life throws at it, the way life sucks ass and things don’t ever go right for you, how your love life is falling apart or not going at all, how you just wanna get laid, etc. It’s all in here.
This is one of the rare books that is just funny. No holds barred, laugh out loud funny with all the gruesome murder, period blood shooting out of you, a bitch of a mom, an actual baby-man. It’s a book that moves in breakneck speed that demands to be read in one sitting (I did).
March 28, 2017
Just when you think XXXXXXX's day can't get any worse, each world she enters through death is more insane than the last. Hilarious, gory, and bonkers Bizarro at its finest. A+
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