SOMETHING UGLY’S WAITIN’ FOR YOU
Honey’s working weekends down at the Six Mile, trying to figure her life out. Her boyfriend’s about to leave the country, her college advisor hates her guts, her momma ain’t listening, and she’s got this cop breathing down her neck just about all the time.
She finds a friend in her new colleague Lisa, but when one of their regular customers turns up dead, everything goes sideways faster than a greased hog at the county fair…
What did I think?
Six Mile Store is a novella with 113 pages so it's a very quick read that I read in one sitting and I really enjoyed it.
The store is in the middle of nowhere but there's a lot going on with the characters to really draw the reader in. Through the eyes of Honey, who works at the store, we peek into her life and encounter a wealth of colourful characters. It reads like an episode of a bingeworthy TV series with vibes of Breaking Bad and Hillbilly Elegy.
It's very character driven and I was invested in Honey's story but also intrigued by the other quirky characters. I mean what does Billy Wayne do with all that toilet paper and who is this Lisa woman who seems to turn up out of the blue to start managing the store? There may not be many pages in the book but there's a lot going on and it is very addictive reading.
Atmospheric, gritty and dark, Six Mile Store is a compulsive and unusual book that shocked and entertained me. It's well worth a read if you're looking for something a bit different.
I chose to read an ARC and this is my honest and unbiased opinion.
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