{"id":8594,"date":"2016-07-27T09:45:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T13:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cemeterydanceonline.com\/?p=8301"},"modified":"2016-07-27T09:45:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T13:45:18","slug":"review-floaters-by-kelli-owen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-floaters-by-kelli-owen\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: &#8216;Floaters&#8217; by Kelli Owen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Floaters-Kelli-Owen\/dp\/1535077441\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1469411980&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=floaters+kelli+owen\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8302\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Floaters-188x300.jpg?resize=188%2C300\" alt=\"Floaters\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" \/>Floaters\u00a0<\/em>by Kelli Owen<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>CreateSpace\u00a0(July 2016)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>270\u00a0pages; $10.99\u00a0paperback; $4.99 e-book<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrankMErrington\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Michaels Errington<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two quotes at the start of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Floaters<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> set the tone perfectly for the story which follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil. Before the settlers, before the Indians&#8230;The evil was there&#8230;Waiting.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 William S. Burroughs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014 Mary Shelly, <em>Frankenstein<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kelli Owen&#8217;s new book starts out looking like a police procedural involving flood waters causing a riverside graveyard to lose a number of its residents, including several Native Americans. It&#8217;s all fairly straightforward, until BAM&#8230;tentacles.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the words of Detective Carly Greene, &#8220;Old Indian legends and myths and monsters and&#8212;oh my god, I need a drink.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They say the devil is in the details, and Kelli has provided plenty to chew on in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Floaters<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. There&#8217;s the strained relationship between Detective Greene and Parker, a reporter for the <em>Evening Telegraph<\/em>, masterfully addressed, not forced, but allowed to come through naturally in Kelli&#8217;s writing. Another gem of a character in the story is Granny Two Fingers, the matriarchal leader Detective Greene is working with to decide what to do with the bodies belonging to the tribe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In her post-story notes, Kelli Owen mentions that much of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Floaters<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is based on facts. Floaters are real, as is the story of the graveyard releasing a number of bodies when flood waters rose, but the rest is the work of an overactive imagination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Floaters<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is available in both paperback and e-book formats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recommended.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floaters\u00a0by Kelli Owen CreateSpace\u00a0(July 2016) 270\u00a0pages; $10.99\u00a0paperback; $4.99 e-book Reviewed by\u00a0Frank Michaels Errington Two quotes at the start of Floaters set the tone perfectly for the story which follows: America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil. Before the settlers, before the Indians&#8230;The evil was there&#8230;Waiting. \u2014 William S. 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