Odd Billy Todd

I have mixed feelings about this book. My Mom has the audiobook and told me to read it. On one hand I couldn't put it down. On the other I found it to be infuriatingly bad. So basically I've decided this book is a prepping right-winger's masturbatory fantasy. We learn everything about guns but we can't read the words pads/tampons. Those words are just too sensitive. Lots of killing and Jesus is totally cool with it. Rape is a major theme but of course the word rape isn't in the book at all. Again the word is too sensitive. But we get all the intricate details of the justified killing of rapists.

I'm also not a fan of the traditional gender roles. Women defer everything to the men folk. We keep getting told everyone has to work and learn new skills. If that's the case then I think the men need to learn how to cook, clean, care for the kids, do all of the domestic stuff they expect from the women. Throughout the story women are weak. I'm just not here for that BS. Several things that needed doing could have been done by women.

With all that said it was entertaining. It's not meant to be a comedy but I laughed at several points. I'm not ashamed to say I'll probably read Reed's other work. This is like the literary equivalent of a bad SyFy channel movie.