The Insides, Jeremy P. Bushnell
The Insides, Jeremy P. Bushnell
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The Insides

Author: Jeremy P. Bushnell

Narrator: R. C. Bray

Unabridged: 6 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/07/2016


Synopsis

Ollie Krueger's days as a punk kid practicing street magic are mostly behind her. Now she's a butcher at Carnage, a high end restaurant offering deconstructed takes on meat, and on the busiest nights of the week she and her partner, Guychardson, race to see who can produce more finished cuts. Ollie's the better butcher, but somehow Guychardson almost always wins.  And Ollie thinks maybe it's because the mysterious knife he uses is magic.

Before she knows it, Ollie's interest in the knife has thrown her square in the path of a dangerous ex-marine called "Pig" and his hired psychic, Maja, who are on the hunt for the knife too—who want it so badly, in fact, that they might kill for it.

Now, magic is back in Ollie's life and she's being chased through New York City, with the fabric of space-time tattering around her and weird inter dimensional worms squirming their way into her kitchen.  And before all this is over she's going to need to face up to the possible consequences of some bad decisions, to look at the uncomfortable truths that she stuffed away long ago, deep down inside . . .

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessica on March 13, 2016

Bushnell's first novel, THE WEIRDNESS, was one of my favorites of 2014. It took me completely by surprise with its crazy story and gleeful style. So I knew I wanted to read THE INSIDES to go for another crazy unexpected romp. And it is, though it's certainly darker than WEIRDNESS. The body count cer......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on November 01, 2020

A very weird and unusual book but also very interesting and entertaining. I enjoyed it. And overall a book about regrets, a book about facing one’s mistakes, and about relationships. I’m sure it won’t be a book for everyone but if you’re looking for something different this might just be the one!......more

Goodreads review by Ali on January 12, 2018

2.5 stars. An imaginative concept, but hampered by underdeveloped and mostly unlikeable characters — especially the main character, which is never a good thing. It’s a pretty short, easy read that feels like it should have been a much longer novel: filled throughout with seeds to good ideas that nev......more

Goodreads review by Drew on March 08, 2020

Reminds me a bit of Warren Ellis' Crooked Little Vein, more spiritually than content-wise or tonally. A narrow-focus, high-stakes ripper of a yarn. A woman in her early 30s, having grown up on the streets of New York and having learned a bit of real magic there, finds herself in proximity to a very......more

Goodreads review by Elena on February 09, 2017

My original The Insides audiobook review and many others can be found at Audiobook Reviewer. Ollie Krueger discovers magic when she is eighteen, and she sees people using magic to go to a place called 'the Inside'. She was never able to go there because she was just learning, and only the ones openin......more