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A review by lauriereadslohf
Go Down Hard by Ali Seay
adventurous
dark
funny
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This is a brutal and gleefully fun novella! I highly recommend it if you’re up for something like that.
Things start off when a man named Jack spies a beautiful woman moving in next door - through his binoculars. Ugh, yes. He’s a perv and he has some mommy issues. But it’s worse than that, actually, as we find out soon enough. I felt so bad for his dog. Evil men do not deserve the love of a dog, never mind one as devoted and sweet as a labrador. Nope. Dogs and their innocent ears should not be subjected to such deviant goings-on. Anyhow, this dude is a genuine creeper doing what creepers do while his unsuspecting new neighbor sets up house not realizing she’s being seen as prey.
Or not.
Meg is nobody's victim and she has moved out to the boonies for a damn good reason. She <i>feels</i> those creeper eyes on her immediately and she’s prepared to deal with them when the time comes.
“The thing about predatory men was they hardly ever entertained the thought of predatory women.”
And then one dastardly turn of events happens followed by a whole helluva lot of action, adventure, gruesomeness and some perfectly placed black humor. I thought it was all delightful but be warned the flashbacks to a traumatizing life altering event in Meg’s past are painful to read.
These people are all kinds of messed up so you’ve been warned but if you’re the kind of person who laughed like a maniac at the scene in Clive Barker’s Hellbound Heart where Julia is chasing a naked man around an empty room, sticking him with a knife as he flails away, just flat out refusing to keel over quickly, this book was made for you as well as for me!
CW:A 12 year old is gang raped by a bunch of boys and then relentlessly harassed and bullied by this same pack of wolves.
Things start off when a man named Jack spies a beautiful woman moving in next door - through his binoculars. Ugh, yes. He’s a perv and he has some mommy issues. But it’s worse than that, actually, as we find out soon enough. I felt so bad for his dog. Evil men do not deserve the love of a dog, never mind one as devoted and sweet as a labrador. Nope. Dogs and their innocent ears should not be subjected to such deviant goings-on. Anyhow, this dude is a genuine creeper doing what creepers do while his unsuspecting new neighbor sets up house not realizing she’s being seen as prey.
Or not.
Meg is nobody's victim and she has moved out to the boonies for a damn good reason. She <i>feels</i> those creeper eyes on her immediately and she’s prepared to deal with them when the time comes.
“The thing about predatory men was they hardly ever entertained the thought of predatory women.”
And then one dastardly turn of events happens followed by a whole helluva lot of action, adventure, gruesomeness and some perfectly placed black humor. I thought it was all delightful but be warned the flashbacks to a traumatizing life altering event in Meg’s past are painful to read.
These people are all kinds of messed up so you’ve been warned but if you’re the kind of person who laughed like a maniac at the scene in Clive Barker’s Hellbound Heart where Julia is chasing a naked man around an empty room, sticking him with a knife as he flails away, just flat out refusing to keel over quickly, this book was made for you as well as for me!
CW:
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Murder, and Rape