Dead Size (Sawney Hatton)


So.. Dead Size..

People's heads are exploding. Across town there are reports of corpses who are missing material above the neck, the heads having been effectively turned to a fine mist with bone fragment accents. The police are investigating and turning up interesting an inexplicable results. With all the gore, who could consider dating?

Gulliver Huggins could.
Gulliver, the semi-neurotic local fix-it man is giddily mooning over local barista, Kat. His bland and reserved public appearance is in direct opposition of Kat's long legs, black silky hair, varied tattoos, and a fiery personality. 

Even if he could land Kat, Gulliver cannot take her home. His house is a mess, cluttered and filled with belongings of his dead parents and brother. There are also the micronians, the inches tall race of creatures who speak to him with small text and scrabble boards. His house is their house and they are very protective of it.

Then there would be the increasing threats from the giants, who are susceptible to a deadly virus only carried by the Micronians.

There is a healthy Gulliver's Travels throwback throughout this novel, but don't expect a cookie cutter plot from author Sawney Hatton. The ties to GT are typically cursory, leaving the main story very fresh.

I have no clue what the title means. Dead Size? If you have read this, perhaps you can explain it to me.. It is an awesome title, but unless I missed something (always possible), it seems more like it was a convenience title than actually tied to the story. The cover art is stellar.

Favorite character? Sheriff Boone- no matter how much I wanted to like Gulliver, Kat, or any other face presented.. Boone was solid and bad ass for an old man.

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RawBlurb description redux:
Not needed. The publishers description of this book has no need for change, it is fairly spot on. 
Kudos!

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Publisher's Description:
This is no fairy tale. 
Gulliver Huggens has issues-- He watched his family perish in a tragic car accident as a child. He doesn't know how to win the heart of the girl at the coffee shop. And he shares his home with a clan of mischievous tiny people.  
Yet these all turn out to be the least of his troubles. 
A secret race of Giants dwelling in the neighboring mountains wants Gulliver to exterminate all the Little People... or else. 
When folks in his hometown begin brutally dying, Gulliver must make a hard choice. But choices have consequences. And consequences, he'll learn, come in all terrible sizes. 
With larger-than-life characters, edge-of-your-seat suspense, and a bit of quirky kinkiness, Dead Size is a comical psychological fantasy mystery thriller for fans of Christopher Moore, Chuck Palahniuk, and Terry Gilliam.

  • Print Length: 310 pages
  • Publisher: Mega Thump Publishing (2013)
  • ASIN: B00AWWN5DU
  • ISBN-10: 0988644436
  • ISBN-13: 978-0988644434
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This review is based on a book kindly provided for free by the publisher or author. Please check my FTC Douche-claimer for details regarding this disclaimer’s existence.

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