# Motel Styx

**Author(s):** Michelle Von Eschen, Jonathan Butcher
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
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**Genres:** literary-fiction
**Publisher:** When the Dead Books
**Published:** Sat Jun 29 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9781737687566
**ISBN-10:** 1737687569
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/motel-styx

## Description

Tucked away in the Chihuahuan Desert lies a motel unlike any other... Fueled by online trends, a shift in the American zeitgeist has led to the instatement of the Lazarus Act, legalizing the 'recreational use' of human corpses. Ellis Mercer, recently bereaved, embarks on a secret mission to America's first 'necrotel' to recover his wife's remains, before her corpse and his memory of her are desecrated by the motel's twisted membership. As he uncovers the murky inner workings of Motel Styx, evading its suspicious staff and encountering a wild array of death-obsessed guests, he will be forced to face an unsettling truth: there is more than one way to define love. Motel Styx is a disturbingly witty tale about lust, loss, and the last taboo.

## SageChimp reader verdict

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