Bleed More, Bodymore

By: Ian Kirkpatrick

Narrated by: Kieran Regan

Joey’s a mechanic. One night, she receives a call from her best friend, asking for his car to be picked up from the infamous body dumping grounds of Baltimore: Leakin' Park.

When she arrives, there’s little more around than a stalled-out car and a couple of ravens, so she leaves only with the car. Back at the body shop, it doesn’t take long for the smell of rot to permeate the trunk. Inside? A corpse. The cops say her friend did it. His absence is his guilt, but Joey knows better. She will find her missing friend, and she will prove his innocence.

But, something isn’t right in Baltimore. It’s not just the feeling that someone is always watching from the city’s abandoned buildings...her search for her friend reveals something much worse hiding under the city; a ghost town, a reaper, and regret. Suddenly, the city’s rage and the stink rising out of the dirt make much more sense.

©2021 Ian Kirkpatrick (P)2024 Ian Kirkpatrick

Great performance on good book

I follow Ian on YouTube and while I’ll say she has a way with words and visuals, it got a little repetitive and even though the performance of the reader is amazing, I tuned out sometimes and had to go skip back to see what I missed. I think I’ll look into more of Ian’s work and see how much it would cost to hire Keirnan. Overall I enjoyed this, the repetition is my only gripe. Well, that and Ian has Tolkien disorder. The pacing kinda slows when we get to a pivotal moment to reminisce on the past. I’m weird, I’d rather hear or read the backstory at the beginning and see a character go from there than find out later that she and Wayland were closer than just some guy.