Happy Ever After

The Peter Chronicles #1

by Matt Shaw

If it's just you and me, together, for the rest of our lives - no-one else to mess things up... could you ever love me?

Peter loves Vanessa. He loves her a lot and is looking forward to starting a nice life with her, and only her. No one else to get in the way and mess up their beautiful relationship. He'll do anything for her. Absolutely anything to make her happy. Anything to see that beautiful smile of hers. Anything to live happily ever after with her.
The only problem is - Vanessa doesn't know Peter and, more importantly, understand why she is cuffed to the dining room table.

Told through the eyes of the two people living the story, follow Peter as he keeps Vanessa prisoner hoping that she will fall in love with him and follow Vanessa as she desperately looks for a way out of this hell.

***NEW TO KINDLE IN 2011 - THE PREQUEL TO "HAPPY EVER AFTER" - 'G.S.O.H ESSENTIAL' - LEARN WHERE THE STORY STARTED***

Genres: Horror, Dark, Fiction, Adult, Splatterpunk, Serial Killer, Thriller

100 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2008

About the author

Biography

MATT SHAW was born, quite by accident (his mother tripped, he shot out) September 30th 1980 in Winchester hospital where he was immediately placed on the baby ward and EBay. Some twelve years later (wandering the corridors of the hospital and playing with road kill when he was on day release), the listing closed and he remained unsold, he was booted out of the hospital to start his life as a writer and hobbit – beginning with writing screenplays and short stories for his own amusement before finally getting published when he was twenty-seven years and forty-five seconds old.


Once Published weekly in a lad's magazine with his photography work, Matt Shaw is also a published author and cartoonist. Has to be said, can be a bit of a flirt and definitely, without a shadow of a doubt, somewhat of a klutz.

Favourite books
"Roald Dahl's Collection of Short Stories"
Tim Burton's Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
Anything, really, written by himself. Because he is that good.

Reviews

[AleJandra · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 Amor incomprendido STARS

Todos los libros de Matt Shaw me tienen así:


Sus historias son tan refrescantes, por lo fuckin locas que son, cero clichés, cero predecibles, siempre me enganchan y esta historia en especial me tenia un lio de emociones.

Esta es la historia de Peter, un dulce y amable psicópata (o sociopata) que esta buscando al amor de su vida.

"That's all I've ever wanted from the firs day a knew 'love' existed. I've only ever wanted a women to love me. I've only wanted to find a women I could give 'love' to -someone to care for and lo0k after."

Un final de shock, inimaginable, me voy directo a buscar la continuación.

[Carol (StarAngel's Reviews) Allen · Rating 5 out of 5]

4 1/2 FXXX ME!!! Stars

LOVE THAT ENDING!!!

Buuuuuttttttt....poor Peter (in more ways than one) *wink

And here is another psychopath that I fell in love with and want to have his babies!

[JaHy☝Hold the Fairy Dust · Rating 4 out of 5]

****4 "STAY WRONG AND TEAM PETER"STARS****

Peter was undoubtedly the sweetest, most considerate and humorous kidnapper, EVER.

I was actually crushing on him, until........


..... Sorry, I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you... JUST KIDDING! ...

If your looking for a few laughs while visiting the dark side, this is the book for you.

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[Pat · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this novella (100 pages) yesterday while letting another book percolate in my mind.

This was horror but it had its comedic moments. Actually you end up feeling almost sorry for the bad guy, Peter! Peter’s mind is a little muddled. All he wants is a woman to love him and to be with forever. Since he can’t get a girlfriend the normal way because he’s not boyfriend material in the looks department and his social skills are immature and he is a little creepy, he just grabs his new girlfriends off the street! Surely when they see the love nest he’s created for them they’ll fall in love with him - that always works - right?

He got more than he bargained for with Vanessa. And then Vanessa got ... that ending! I’m a bit confused about the order of the books but I’d like to find out more about these guys. It was a fun and funny story in a yucky way but I enjoyed it anyway!

[Silvana · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is....





I have to admit I laughed so hard at the beginning, till things started getting really weird and I felt so uncomfortable for most of it...

Did that make you me want to stop reading, hell no!!... Because I like Peter...




THANK YOU JAHY AGAIN!!

[Jamie ♡♡ submits to books ♡♡ · Rating 4 out of 5]

**** 4 Obsessed With Obsession Stars ****

I must say Matt Shaw has outdone himself with this little doozie of a read.
Be prepared for some raw details. I was not expecting these but it definitely fit right into Peter and his life!



I hope I never in my life have to deal with an obsessed person. The mindset is off the wall crazy, when in fact they think everything they are doing is normal.



Peter, my sweet and deranged Peter. I will admit, I like Peter. I like him a lot. Now the way he thinks, well, that is something of an intriguing mystery.

Peter just wants to be love. He just wants to be loved with no outside people getting in the way. Just him and his love forever, just the two of them. The only way to achieve this love is to abduct a woman he finds that he is attracted to and has a little connection with him.



Vanessa wakes up cuffed to a bed. She has no idea what is happening but she is about to live her worst nightmare. To survive she knows she has to convince Peter that she loves him. Gain his trust so she can escape. Her plan works until it doesn't and she caught trying to escape.

Peter doesn't understand why she can't love him. He has done everything for her. He has given her everything. She doesn't want for anything.

As Peter fights the inner voice telling him to make her pay, Vanessa knows she is in trouble. To keep her from running, Peter slams her ankle in a door and locks her up again.

Vanessa pleads with Peter that she does love him and she needs him. Her cries of love make Peter weak and he plays right into Vanessa's desperate hands.



You will not see her next move coming until it is too late. Holy damn, I didn't think she had this in her but a desperate woman must do desperate things to escape.

This ending....yeah just be prepared to be hanging!!

[Carla ☺Did I Say That☺ · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 solid Stars!!!
Damn...what a ending...I loved it!!

[Kat Desi · Rating 4 out of 5]

“She is the same as the other. They all go the same way starting with confusion, to the anger, to fear and finally begging me for their life.”

Ha! Gotta love Peter. I'm no stranger to kidnap-themed novels. Dare I say it? I even enjoy them. I love how twisted and sick these stories are. I read Happy Ever After in one sitting. It's that good. At first I thought it was a bit anticlimactic because I've read so much of these, but I was wrong. There's something about the way it was written that I found magnetic. I literally couldn't stop reading until I reached the end.

[Pamela · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh my Gosh this is the first book I read about a story of kidnapping and I really I have to say that the book was really fast read. I feel in a way like I was the character, Vanessa who was kidnapped by Peter.

The act of going through the process of kidnapping and feel inside me, what she went through make me feel almost sick in the sense that I feel the despair of what happened to Vanessa to get rid of her kidnapper.

It's a really heartbreaking story, because a young woman like me put in that position, and if I pass that to me, what would I do in that position. I can not imagine that something like this happens to me, well I can imagine, but it is very different to imagine and that you get to experience something like that in real.

The end of the book left me hopeless because I thought Vanessa would achieve its goal, but unfortunately could not.
Finally, regarding the book directly, I found it curious that Peter the kidnapper was a guy so thin, I also felt that his mental condition of a person who eats human flesh, was not very realistic, I believe that he should have being a character even more macabre than it was.
I feel sorry for Peter, because he just wanted to be loved and reciprocated in the same way, but unfortunately he could never be loved because itself inside he has not love.

My favorite quote:

"She is the same as the other. They all go the same way starting with confusion, to the anger, to fear and finally begging me for their life." Peter

This book really made me feel as I was Vanessa..

[Andbme · Rating 4 out of 5]

Peter is a complete nut job but I feel for him...maybe I need therapy ;-P
Loving everything this author writes...



On to the next one...

[Ruth Turner · Rating 3 out of 5]

The whole thing was unbelievable, including the characters.

There was no tension, no anxiety and the ending was obvious early in the book, just not how it would be achieved.

Just an okay read for me.

[Glenn Conley · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book had an interesting idea. Kidnap a girl, and force her to love you. Just tie her up in your basement, until she loves you. That'd work, right? Sure it will. Then, when she comes around, and decides to finally love you, she totally won't chop your dick off and run for the hills. Right?

Fucking stupid. Of course she's going to try to escape. And she's not going to love you. She might pretend to love you, but she would never really love you. So what's the fuckin point? Wouldn't it make more sense to tie her up and just keep her as a sex slave? At least then you'd get laid, you stupid fuck.

But no. He's got her tied up in a bedroom all this time, and he doesn't fuck her until halfway through the goddamn book. And by then, it's not even rape, because she's pretending to love him. And it's not even gory details about how he slapped her around, or anything. It's just... Then he fucked her, and there was a wet spot on the bed. Ohhh, how enticing. Fucking bullshit.

It seems like this book is just an exercise in conflict. Sure, the entire book is filled with conflict. But unfortunately, it's just one conflict. How does this girl get away from this guy? That's it. Nothing else. So why bother reading it, if it's just the same struggle over and over? Once you've read a page of it, you've pretty much read the book. There's really no surprises.

There's not even any goddamn torture porn. It's nothing you can jack off too, that's for sure. So, what's the fucking point? It's just the same stupid shit over and over for 400 some pages.

So fuck off, Matt Shaw. Eat my motherfucking ass. Have some variety next time. Or at least rape the bitch over and over. Give me something. Damn.

[Ken B · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Happy Ever After" is an interesting novella told in two points of view, from the point of view of an abductor, who wants nothing more than to have a girlfriend, and from the point of view of his abductee.

The novella is listed as the first of three in a series plus two additional books, an epilogue and a finale. Part of me likes where "Happy Ever After" ended. Another part of me wants "the further adventures of...".


4 STARS

[Kittykorn · Rating 4 out of 5]

not a bad book, flew through it, now starting sequel

[Mort · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great story. Superb ending!

[Quentin Wallace · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was my first book by Matt Shaw. Honestly, I wasn't blown away by it. I liked it, but I think I'd heard so much about Matt Shaw my expectations were high, and this just didn't quite meet them. I'm not a huge fan of "extreme horror" anyway because I think too much time is spent on the "shock" and not enough time on the "story." Now, to clarify, the writing itself is good, and Shaw's prose is exceptional, but this story itself just didn't do it for me.

I will be reading more by Shaw, because I have a feeling he has other books I may enjoy more than this one. I would still recommend this one if you like dark, somewhat extreme horror stories.

[Ilze · Rating 2 out of 5]

Insane

[John Wiltshire · Rating 3 out of 5]

I quite enjoyed this short horror novel and read it in a sitting. There's nothing new in it that hasn't been done in many films and other books: guy takes girl and imprisons her to force her to be his "girlfriend", but it's just done well and to the point. Come to think of it, it's been done in real life too. There's a nice little twist in that Peter not only traps the girl in the house, he traps himself, as he bricks up the entire place and lays in supplies for life. Poor girl escapes his attentions (great scene) but still can't escape the house. Nice. Simple, true horror.
Coming to this after the total abortion of Stephen/Owen King's Sleeping Beauties, it was a depressingly ironic reminder about authors, fame and wealth. How many people have heard of and read King? How many have read Matt Shaw? Life, and writing, is not fair.

[Dez Nemec · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is only my second book by Matt Shaw, but it's exactly what I expected. Raw and brutal. I read it straight through. I'm looking forward to reading more of his works!

[Jeynna ( The Romance Junkie) · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 creepy stars!

WOW! okay, that was some serious horse sh1t! what a psycho! It creeps the hell outta me, but at the same time I was intrigued by the story:D
Anyway, this is a short story revolving around a psycho man who kidnapped a woman and think that he can develop a romantic relationship with them. He became obsessed and possessive of those women and start doing the unthinkable things. Unfortunately, he's doing it in a really sick kinda way.

This type of book is really out of my league, not my genre and honestly it is my first time reading this kind of story and it already caught my attention. So my feelings about this book? *drumrolls* I loved it! I really,really, reaaaaalllyyy.... loved it<3<3<3 But this is only the first book in the series and be warned that the ending was a cliffhanger, so don't read this unless you got all the trilogy. This book might have a below 4.00 ratings but trust me this is really good and is highly recommendable for those who are looking for some erotic, sick, dark kinda story. Matt Shaw did a really great job of pulling me into this. *thumbs up*

[Lacey · Rating 2 out of 5]

Way creepy, but not the reason for the two stars. It was interesting to read and get in Peter's head. I liked it. But Vanessa was not believable as a character at all. I understand the instinct to survive, and that you'd do anything...but she just seemed too in control. She didn't seem scared enough when reading from her POV....and the Stockholm thing at the end...way too sudden. She went from "Fuck you, you sick fuck" to "Good night Peter, I missed you too," and there was no gradual sympathy. I didn't believe her character. The downfall of a man writing from a woman's POV I guess. Also, both Peter and Vanessa switched verb tenses to the point of confusion and it was very distracting. Sometimes the verb tense would shift within even the same sentence. Also, my ebook version had many spelling errors, but that was fogivable since the book was free to download and it wasn't as distracting as the tense shifts. I did enjoy reading it in spite of all that, but it could have been better.

[Kim (Wistfulskimmies Book Reviews) · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the story of Pete and Vanessa. All Peter wants is for Vanessa to love him and for them to live happily ever after. All Vanessa wants is for Peter to un-cuff her and let her go.

This was very dark and quite graphic but was still thoroughly engrossing, and no less enjoyable for it. Told in alternate points of view from Vanessa and Peter, it is actually the second story in a series of three but still stands alone quite well. It was recommended to me by a friend and I am so glad she did! It is unrelenting but fantastic. Peter is slightly demented, no actually he's quite psychotic...and sees the world differently from most people. Vanessa is his hapless victim but she has an inner strength and refuses to give up. Great stuff! I am looking forward to the others now.

[Valerie Sparkle · Rating 5 out of 5]

WTF??? Ok so this book is about a crazy guy named Peter who thinks the only way he will ever have true love is if he he locks himself and a girl up alone in a house forever. Then there's Vanessa. She's the 15th girl he kidnaps and when he asks if she could love him eventually she says yes.

This book was insane. What she does....


Let's just say my mind was blown. I can't wait to read more of this series.

[Danielle Woodward · Rating 5 out of 5]

One weird twisting dark but extremely good book. Its interesting how well Matt writes the sickness inside the characters heads.

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I'd really like to know what happens to Vanessa as she descends into the madness in her own mind. Does she realize just exactly what Peter has done and had been feeding her? Leaves many questions and could easily be made into a second book.

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Creepy, creepy book. Not sure if this author with follow in the path of Stephen King or if the FBI should just add him to their watch list and start keeping tabs on him now.

And, yes...I have to go read the next and see what happens...and yes that's means skipping the prequel for now even though I know that's a reading sin. Can't help myself.

[Elizabeth · Rating 1 out of 5]

Utterly dreadful nonsense. Unoriginal idea - it's a shocking rip off of John Fowles' The Collector. Annoying and unengaging characters and outrageously implausible events.

I was looking for a new horror novelist. I'm still looking.

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[Beca]

I stopped reading because its content was too graphic for a little 18 year old girl like me lol

[Frankie Yates · Rating 5 out of 5]

Masterpiece of a story with an incredible ending!

[T.Ann Martin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Creepy head games

The story line flow ed well. The plot could have been a little more fleshed out. It was a quick read.