Tantric Zoo: A Bud Warhol Mystery Review

Tantric Zoo: A Bud Warhol Mystery
By Rob Loughran

About the book:

Tantric Zoo begins at a tantric sex couples retreat in 1987. Amid the cavorting and indulging and groping and exploring one of the campers ends up dead. The surviving campers bury the body and return to their lives.

Until 2008 when the body is discovered and forensic anthropologist Bud Warhol tracks the campers down. Bud finds the murderer but also discovers how two decades of guilt has altered and affected the lives of everyone involved with the Tantric Zoo.

My Review:

Tantric Zoo begins in 1987 at Tantricity Hill with four very different couples in different stages of their lives.  Altair and his wife Apple run Tantricity Hill.  The other three couples are Arnold and Missy, Debra and Devon, and Helena and Blake.  Each couple has their own reason for visiting Tantricity Hill.  Tantricity Hill is a retreat, focusing on sex therapy and allowing campers to reconnect with themselves as well as their significant others.  During their time, they each explore their minds, bodies, and sexuality.  They are able to try new things without distractions.  The first half of the book, we get to know each character.  We find out who they are, why they are there and what they hope to find and explore. 

I liked that the campers all had different stories and backgrounds which made this book well rounded.  I enjoyed getting to know each character and I could picture what they looked like.  The author did a great job describing the atmosphere so I could picture the scene. 

During a drug filled orgy in the dark, one camper takes advantage and kills another.  Later in the book, it will be revealed as to why this person killed.  As a group, they decide to bury the body.  They dig the grave together, wrap the body, and bury it.  As you can imagine, they are left in shock and full of guilt.

About halfway through the book, we meet the main character, Bud Warhol.  It is now 2008, 21 years after they buried the body.  The body is discovered.  Bud is an anthropologist who works with the police to determine if it’s a murder or historical burial site.  We follow Bud on his quest to find the campers from that weekend. 

This book was an interesting read from start to finish, it was unlike any book I have ever read.  
Tantric Zoo was a great read.  Very different and very unique.

Rob Loughran
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