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lior34's review
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Death, Torture, Suicide, Child abuse, Violence, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Pregnancy, and Gun violence
Moderate: Death of parent, Excrement, and Sexual content
Minor: Addiction and Infidelity
made_in_dna's review
4.0
Enter a young couple trying to have a child; a hidden, dark past; and psychological trauma that one cannot run from -- combine it all for a creepy, on-the-edge-of-your-seat read.
I'm a not a fan of psychological-trauma horror to honest. It sits on that level that disturbs and makes me uncomfortable. That, however, is the power of Shane McKenzie's writing. It is what also kept me turning page after page, reading to an inevitable ending that I knew I could not escape with this short story.
Dark, haunting and not for the faint of heart.
I'm a not a fan of psychological-trauma horror to honest. It sits on that level that disturbs and makes me uncomfortable. That, however, is the power of Shane McKenzie's writing. It is what also kept me turning page after page, reading to an inevitable ending that I knew I could not escape with this short story.
Dark, haunting and not for the faint of heart.
stefanie_duncan's review
5.0
This book was recommended to me in a FB group. I was looking for something gut wrenching..
Well, this book is exactly that. Gut wrenching..
At the end it will punch you so hard that you will gasp for air and might even cry a little.
This story is effin' brilliant! Trigger warning for people that are pregnant, plan on getting pregnant, had a miscarriage...
5 Stork's - I mean stars lol
Well, this book is exactly that. Gut wrenching..
At the end it will punch you so hard that you will gasp for air and might even cry a little.
This story is effin' brilliant! Trigger warning for people that are pregnant, plan on getting pregnant, had a miscarriage...
5 Stork's - I mean stars lol
mrfrank's review
5.0
Holy Crap.
I would leave my review at those two words, but I feel the desperate need to cannonize Shane McKenzie into the grand hall of great horror writers. Having penned my favorite read of 2013, MUERTE CON CARNE, I followed up with McKenzie's novella, STORK. I am prepared to announce him as my current favorite horror writer based on those two works alone.
That's right Brian Keene, have a seat, Shane McKenzie is the new king. His writing leaves stone cold ice in my blood. My stomach churning and quesy. Every ounce of me begging for more. Never have I read horror so real. So little, if any, supernatural forces drive the terror. In the twisted mind of Shane McKenzie, we, the everyday Dick and Jane, are the real terror.
Read Shane McKenzie. Every last blood dripping, bone cracking, bile inducing ounce of his writing. All hail the new king. I stick by what I said before...
Holy crap.
I would leave my review at those two words, but I feel the desperate need to cannonize Shane McKenzie into the grand hall of great horror writers. Having penned my favorite read of 2013, MUERTE CON CARNE, I followed up with McKenzie's novella, STORK. I am prepared to announce him as my current favorite horror writer based on those two works alone.
That's right Brian Keene, have a seat, Shane McKenzie is the new king. His writing leaves stone cold ice in my blood. My stomach churning and quesy. Every ounce of me begging for more. Never have I read horror so real. So little, if any, supernatural forces drive the terror. In the twisted mind of Shane McKenzie, we, the everyday Dick and Jane, are the real terror.
Read Shane McKenzie. Every last blood dripping, bone cracking, bile inducing ounce of his writing. All hail the new king. I stick by what I said before...
Holy crap.
nikkijames611's review
5.0
Well Crap, I wasn’t expecting that ending, but a great read nonetheless.
bayoumuddah's review
5.0
Damn
This one was bleak and screwed up but very good. Disturbing and shocking ending. I thought I saw where this was going but wow lol
This one was bleak and screwed up but very good. Disturbing and shocking ending. I thought I saw where this was going but wow lol
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