A Little Leg Work edition by Royce Leville Literature Fiction eBooks
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An Italian restaurant turns to a new food source, with surprising and sickening results. A plate of meatballs will never be the same again.
When you order a meal in a restaurant, how can you be sure you get what you asked for? Isn't that meat a little pale to be beef? And what tastes like chicken doesn't mean it's actually chicken. The thing is, most diners are completely oblivious as to what goes on in a restaurant's kitchen. They order, eat and pay, with no clue as to where the food has come from.
Take the Alfresco Paradiso in A Little Leg Work. When this renowned Italian restaurant turns to a new food source, with surprising and sickening results, it means a plate of meatballs will never be the same again. And while no one knows what the Alfresco's chefs are up to, the public loves it and gobbles it up. A local detective (and weekend gourmet chef) tries to find out just what it is that makes the meatballs so good, while his brother-in-law, a journalist, smells a page one story. Meanwhile, the Alfresco owner becomes a celebrity and all those involved in the restaurant start rolling in the cash, including a butcher, an adventurer and a morgue manager. They all get to tell their own story and have their say because the book is told from numerous points of view.
Royce Leville's debut novel pushes the boundaries of taste and the limits of traditional narrative style. Replete with footnotes, multiple narrators, gristly scenes and thousands of satisfied eaters, A Little Leg Work will disgust, intrigue, amuse and offend, and leave you salivating for more.
A Little Leg Work edition by Royce Leville Literature Fiction eBooks
This was a really fun book to read, and an innovative premise, too.Just one comment for the Kindle version - the footnotes were hard to follow sometimes, but I'm sure the print version would be easier. I'd be tempted to reformat the Kindle version and put the footnotes right in the text, perhaps in parenthesis where necessary.
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A Little Leg Work edition by Royce Leville Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I received this book as a Member Giveaway from LibraryThing. It came in the mail right after Christmas and it was wrapped in Christmas paper, which was a simple and kind gesture that made my day.
Since I am not opposed to cannibalism, I found this book to be more humorous than horrifying (as others might cringe). I may have even gotten a little hungry here and there if I actually liked meatballs. ;)
But really, the book was written in a very unique and creative manner. Royce Leville had everyone's perspective going around in the book and I loved hearing the very real-like and entertaining variety of everyone's point of view. In that, I was impressed at how there were so many perspectives without being confusing. I knew exactly who was expressing when they were expressing.
The story makes you think about what you could be eating when you go out to restaurants. It opens your eyes to the way people can sometimes just stumble upon something that causes them to commit an act they generally wouldn't commit. At the end of this book, you could say that what goes around comes around and it tied up nicely. I really enjoyed reading this.
I also want to add this link that a friend happened to share with me right as I was finishing the book up. It's interesting that this article is very similar to this book
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I won a print copy of A Little Leg Work by Royce Leville in a Goodreads Giveaway.
I have to first give credit to author Royce Leville for having the ability to take a topic (cannibalism) that most people (myself included) find abhorrent and turning it into a humorous story. A Little Leg Work is a very funny story.
Although there is no indication noted in the book, it is pretty clear to me that Royce Leville is British. We find many words with the British spelling, but then again, the publisher is identified as being in Hamburg, Germany, so who can say for sure. I only mention this at all because a character in the book drives a Mercedes and the author shortens this to "Merc". Which, any American car guy knows means Mercury (both fine cars, but hardly interchangeable). This is the only language difference that is seriously noticeable.
Leville keeps the story light by not focusing too much on how the "humce" (read the book) is acquired, but on the goings on of all the characters, and how easily they slid down that slippery slope into gruesome activities.
A Little Leg Work is not graphic, even the sex. In fact, for me, one of the funniest parts of the book is how a fetus (foetus, as the author spells it) experiences sexual activity by its host.
Author Leville uses footnotes to provide snide asides about various characters and situations. I found this a very funny way of keeping the story light.
For a short time I actually worried about what it says about me that I could find such a topic funny (but I did, call me a ghoul if you want, but it was funny). I got over it, but it may be that I won't go out for Italian for a while.
The other thing that struck me was the presence of a "Travel Page" at the front and again at the back of the book. It is a place to document the travels of the book through different readers. Kind of a neat idea until two pages later when we find the admonishment "that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated..." (??).
The real lesson to be taken away from A Little Leg Work by Royce Leville is Never trust a vegetarian! Enjoy!
Mike
As is very often always the case, I received this book free in exchange for a review. Despite the kindness of receiving a free book I'm absolutely candid about the book because I want everyone to know what they're getting as much as I hope to when I'm shopping.
The plot summary on this one is delicious! Essentially it's a Sweeney Todd or Delicatessen but in the modern day. What do you do when a big restaurant critic has come for a meal and you're out of meat? Well you improvise of course!
To the positive, this book is delightfully entertaining, assuming your stomach isn't turned. The descriptions of the "meals" aren't terribly graphic but if the idea is enough to make you turn a bit green then you might want to give this a miss because there are a LOT of meals. Also, the characterizations in this book are sharp and diverse and give the novel a lot of color and panache. Lastly, the book has an unusual feature for a work of fiction, over 200 footnotes. These are not, strictly speaking, required reading but they add a lot of back story to the novel and they're often quite dryly hilarious.
To the negative, the plot is a bit wobbly at times in that the characters get away with a lot for a long time that wouldn't really have worked out. It fails slightly in realism but that's all very easily ignored. Also the book suffers from some rather mysterious textual errors confusing your/you're and there/their. This is unusual because the rest of the production is so crisp. Still it's only a minor distraction.
In summary, if you like a dark tale and don't mind a lot of cannibalism, then I can't recommend this one highly enough. You won't be able to resist eating it up; assuming it doesn't eat you first.
This was a really fun book to read, and an innovative premise, too.
Just one comment for the version - the footnotes were hard to follow sometimes, but I'm sure the print version would be easier. I'd be tempted to reformat the version and put the footnotes right in the text, perhaps in parenthesis where necessary.
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