A Cold Retreat by Jim Ody

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I was asked to be part of the fabulous Blog Tour for this great book by Jim Ody.  He's an author you need to try out, original and unusual, well worth buying his books for the treat they will take you on. 

The Blurb

As a child, Penny dreams of being a princess. She knows life isn't exactly like fairytale,  but she hopes it can be similar. 

The future isn't so kind to Penny. The Princes in her reality turn out to be evil. Battered and Bruised she hits rock bottom. 

Years have passed but the past cannot be forgotten. Now someone is intent on making the men pay for what they have done.

This is a chilling tale of revenge that explores the impact of not being able to say no. 

My Blurb 

Thank you Jim for the chance to read and review this book. 

The book starts off with different people and they're lives, it changes between them and time differences, giving you, the reader a chance to get immersed into the story and why it carries onto what it does and why the characters react as they do. 

This kept me so involved and wanting to know why and where it was going to go next. 

You really have to follow until the end to find out. It's a well balanced web of who, what, where and is so good at digging into them all. 

Don't let that sound confusing, it isn't it's written so everything comes together and it's all there. 

Really worth the read. 

Jim Ody 

And now an introduction to Jim Ody the author

Jim was first published in an English School Textbook in 1987. He won a competition to draw a dog-walking machine. Having won an art competition the year before, he felt that at the age of eleven he had peaked and consequently retired from art. 

For 10 years Jim wrote for a number of websites reviewing and interviewing bands in his own unique way, as well as contributing dark poems and comedic features. 

Jim likes to write psychological/thrillers that have endings that you won’t see coming. He also favours stories packed with wit. 

Zombie Cupcake Press have published his two books 'Lost Connections' and 'The Place That Never Existed', and will release his third 'A Cold Retreat' in January 2018. He also has a short stories in a number of anthologies with Zombie Cupcake Press and Bloodhound Books. Next year will see the release of a haunting novella, another psychological thriller and the start of a comedy/crime series (Caper & Dice).

He has a very strange sense of humour and is often considered a little odd. When not writing he will be found playing the drums, watching football and eating chocolate. He lives with his long-suffering wife and three beautiful children in Swindon, Wiltshire.