Tales from the Coffee Pot by Jim Ody @Jim_Ody_Author @QuestionPress @zooloo2008 #20booksofsummer21 (20/20) #QuestionMarkPress #ZooloosBookTours #BlogTour #TalesfromTheCoffeePot #Review

Thanks for stopping by! I’m delighted to be one of the stops on the blog tour for Tales from the Coffee Pot by Jim Ody and sharing my review today. This is also book twenty of my 20 books of summer challenge. With thanks to Zoé at Zooloo’s Book Tours for the invite to join the tour and to the author for my copy. First things first let’s take a look at the description for the book…

For the first time, the best of Jim Ody’s published short-stories are together in one anthology, including four previously unreleased.

Twelve twisted tales that touch on psychological/thriller, horror and YA, including:

A detective sent to a travelling circus to find a missing boy; A guy with a mysterious trunk must meet a stranger at a motel to survive; A doll turns up and becomes a little girl’s best friend. Then things turn strange; A surprise birthday party is memorable, if only the birthday boy survives; and a group of orphans find the world is about to end…

1 The Reveal
2 A Moth in The Jar
3 The I-Scream Van
4 Teaching Tom
5 Boat Trip
6 The Trunk
7 The Day
8 A Doll Named Sasha
9 Surprise Party
10 The Orphans
11 Hide & Seek
12 Virgin Women From Outta Space

Purchase Links

Amazon UK : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tales-Coffee-Pot-Jim-Ody-ebook/dp/B0927KV4VK

Amazon US : https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Coffee-Pot-Jim-Ody-ebook/dp/B0927KV4VK

MY REVIEW

There was a little bit of everything within this short story anthology. Although it’s safe to say that all of these stories had a decidedly dark edge. I really do love a sting in the tail and some of these stories provided that ending perfectly for me. Jim Ody definitely kept me on my toes with some unexpected conclusions. As with most collections I preferred some stories over others. But on the whole there was something intriguing about pretty much all of them. If I had to pick, the stand out stories for me were The Trunk, A Doll Named Sasha, Surprise Party and Hide & Seek. Each of these pulled me in and had me turning the pages as fast as I could.

There are quite a variety of tales within this anthology. Some had a definite creepy edge and others I found myself smiling at. Then there were tales with a quirky edge that equally entertained. I also love how flexible short story anthologies can be. Whether you have limited time and only have a spare ten minutes. At least you can still see a story through to the end. Or maybe you’re like me and prefer to read a few stories in one sitting. I guess the choice really is yours!

Tales from the Coffee Pot is a collection of dark, twisty and at times unexpected stories.