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Jacked
Crow, a massive musclebound beast of a man, has been banned from the All Day Fitness because he was caught selling steroids in the locker room. But he won't stop coming back. There are rumors that he spent time in prison and that he is borderline insane. Sid and Gabe are working the graveyard shift and were told to call the police if Crow showed...but the phones are dead. Even their cell phones won't work. Then they notice the slime in the street, running through it like a green, bubbling river. They go outside to investigate, see first hand what the slime does to the people it touches...what it turns them into. Trapped inside of the gym with Crow and with countless slimy, bloated zombies pressed up against the glass and the river steadily rising, they begin to wonder if they would be safer outside than in.
- GenresHorrorBizarro Fiction
94 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 13, 2012
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April 15, 2020
The Synopsis:
Crow, a massive musclebound beast of a man, has been banned from the All Day Fitness because he was caught selling steroids in the locker room. But he won't stop coming back. There are rumors that he spent time in prison and that he is borderline insane. Sid and Gabe are working the graveyard shift and were told to call the police if Crow showed...but the phones are dead. Even their cell phones won't work. Then they notice the slime in the street, running through it like a green, bubbling river. They go outside to investigate, see first hand what the slime does to the people it touches...what it turns them into. Trapped inside of the gym with Crow and with countless slimy, bloated zombies pressed up against the glass and the river steadily rising, they begin to wonder if they would be safer outside than in.
So what did I think of Shane Mckenzie’s story? I thought it was fabulous! I loved the twist on the monsters, the monsters being a zombie/the blob type being and burned you just from contact! And the fact they spewed bile slime out their orifices was just fantastic!
So Crow is this crazy musclehead that believes Hell has come to Earth and this is redemption time! He makes the main character Sid and his friend Gabe hella uncomfortable his whole visit at the gym.
I enjoyed every sentence in this book and couldn’t get enough of it! Honestly, my only complaint is that the sucker is too short! Like, I wish i got more back and forth’s between Crow and Sid, because I just loved the interactions between the two.
And Mckenzie’s take on The Blob Zombies was awesome! A fresh take on zombies, that’s for sure, and it’s about a crazy body builder, which made it that much more awesome!
All around, this was a great little Novella! I highly recommend it to anyone that’s a fan of zombie fiction, a from of good story telling, and a fan of oddball characters! Overall, I give this book five stars! Seriously, if you can find this book anywhere, I’d highly recommend reading this little book! It was so much fun and I’m glad I decided to give Mckenzie a chance! I’m definitely looking up more stuff by him and hoping to find the same joy in his other stuff like I did with this book! It was a lot of fun guys!
Crow, a massive musclebound beast of a man, has been banned from the All Day Fitness because he was caught selling steroids in the locker room. But he won't stop coming back. There are rumors that he spent time in prison and that he is borderline insane. Sid and Gabe are working the graveyard shift and were told to call the police if Crow showed...but the phones are dead. Even their cell phones won't work. Then they notice the slime in the street, running through it like a green, bubbling river. They go outside to investigate, see first hand what the slime does to the people it touches...what it turns them into. Trapped inside of the gym with Crow and with countless slimy, bloated zombies pressed up against the glass and the river steadily rising, they begin to wonder if they would be safer outside than in.
So what did I think of Shane Mckenzie’s story? I thought it was fabulous! I loved the twist on the monsters, the monsters being a zombie/the blob type being and burned you just from contact! And the fact they spewed bile slime out their orifices was just fantastic!
So Crow is this crazy musclehead that believes Hell has come to Earth and this is redemption time! He makes the main character Sid and his friend Gabe hella uncomfortable his whole visit at the gym.
I enjoyed every sentence in this book and couldn’t get enough of it! Honestly, my only complaint is that the sucker is too short! Like, I wish i got more back and forth’s between Crow and Sid, because I just loved the interactions between the two.
And Mckenzie’s take on The Blob Zombies was awesome! A fresh take on zombies, that’s for sure, and it’s about a crazy body builder, which made it that much more awesome!
All around, this was a great little Novella! I highly recommend it to anyone that’s a fan of zombie fiction, a from of good story telling, and a fan of oddball characters! Overall, I give this book five stars! Seriously, if you can find this book anywhere, I’d highly recommend reading this little book! It was so much fun and I’m glad I decided to give Mckenzie a chance! I’m definitely looking up more stuff by him and hoping to find the same joy in his other stuff like I did with this book! It was a lot of fun guys!
September 16, 2025
In this story we follow Sid and Gabe and they work at the gym. There is a guy there obviously hyped up on steroids named Crow. When a horde of slime filled zombies fill the streets, they are forced to stay all in the gym together until the slime makes its way into the building.
This was a fun story, I didn’t really care for any of the characters tho so it wasn’t a big blow for me for what had happened, I wish the end of the story was more detailed and dived into because the ending was super cool but felt rushed and cut short sadly, but other than that it was a really fun read!
This was a fun story, I didn’t really care for any of the characters tho so it wasn’t a big blow for me for what had happened, I wish the end of the story was more detailed and dived into because the ending was super cool but felt rushed and cut short sadly, but other than that it was a really fun read!
February 6, 2021
Bastante más corto que el libro que leí antes de Shane McKenzie (Muerte con Carne) pero debo decir que me entretuvo más, a pesar que la trama de Jacked es bastante absurda y por la longitud de la novela no se puede esperar gran explicación. Gran parte de la calificación se debe a que me pareció original.
June 2, 2023
Meatheads going ham on melty slime zombies with plates and barbells? Hell yeah, sign me up dawg.
4.5/5 maybe cause it felt a bit incomplete w/o some origin story, but still awesome overall.
4.5/5 maybe cause it felt a bit incomplete w/o some origin story, but still awesome overall.
February 9, 2013
Jacked by Shane McKenzie
Crow has been banned from the All Day Fitness gym for selling his drug of choice to other patrons. The steroid using hulk of a man, whose prison time has blurred the lines of sanity, showed up at midnight for a lengthy workout. The only other occupants are Sid and Gabe. The two friends soon realize the danger Crow represents and call the police to have him removed. Finding the phone lines dead and no cell reception, they head outside and notice slow-moving green ooze flowing down the street. The green stuff instantly consumes and dissolves everything in its path including humans which it turns into slushy forms. As their numbers grow, these sluggish zombie-like creatures soon ascend on the gym. The three men trapped inside together soon shift their minds to the fact of survival becoming imminent. Hungry to share their goo, the living things try to force their way in. Crow has an agenda of his own, believing Hell has been unleashed upon humankind; he plans to stop at nothing to destroy what has been created. Sid and Gabe find themselves the focal point of a battle between insane and horrific
Shane McKenzie’s Jacked drags readers by the shirt collar and lunges them into an insane scenario of a lumbering madman and green oozed creatures. With reality discarded, the abstract doors inside Shane's head are fully propped open for this story. His descriptive talents cause an unnerving sense of sight, smell, sound, and taste that surround each terrifying moment. Shane crosses every line drawn before him. This causes an emotion of being uncomfortable and unaware of what's lurking around the next corner in McKenzie’s self made fun house. Jacked reads like an early Peter Jackson horror flick. The reader will never know from which direction the next bucket of green slime will be heaved upon them. The confinement of the setting along with a heavy dose of twisted rampage and grotesque creatures makes this a midnight reading one will not soon forget.
Crow has been banned from the All Day Fitness gym for selling his drug of choice to other patrons. The steroid using hulk of a man, whose prison time has blurred the lines of sanity, showed up at midnight for a lengthy workout. The only other occupants are Sid and Gabe. The two friends soon realize the danger Crow represents and call the police to have him removed. Finding the phone lines dead and no cell reception, they head outside and notice slow-moving green ooze flowing down the street. The green stuff instantly consumes and dissolves everything in its path including humans which it turns into slushy forms. As their numbers grow, these sluggish zombie-like creatures soon ascend on the gym. The three men trapped inside together soon shift their minds to the fact of survival becoming imminent. Hungry to share their goo, the living things try to force their way in. Crow has an agenda of his own, believing Hell has been unleashed upon humankind; he plans to stop at nothing to destroy what has been created. Sid and Gabe find themselves the focal point of a battle between insane and horrific
Shane McKenzie’s Jacked drags readers by the shirt collar and lunges them into an insane scenario of a lumbering madman and green oozed creatures. With reality discarded, the abstract doors inside Shane's head are fully propped open for this story. His descriptive talents cause an unnerving sense of sight, smell, sound, and taste that surround each terrifying moment. Shane crosses every line drawn before him. This causes an emotion of being uncomfortable and unaware of what's lurking around the next corner in McKenzie’s self made fun house. Jacked reads like an early Peter Jackson horror flick. The reader will never know from which direction the next bucket of green slime will be heaved upon them. The confinement of the setting along with a heavy dose of twisted rampage and grotesque creatures makes this a midnight reading one will not soon forget.
April 20, 2013
The title, Jacked, might not be the most fitting for this story, but it sure was a fun read. Gory, shocking, and filled with gut-wrenching violence, author Shane McKenzie puts his spin to the classic Blob story. Solid writing and characters will keep you reading straight though to the end. While a few character traits are not quite explained and a few descriptions feel repetitive, the location and claustrophobic scenario really worked and helped to increase the danger for the characters.
Some of the continuity on the weakening of the gym’s outside glass was a little inconsistent, but for an easy, violent and gory read, fans of Edward Lee type of horror should be pleased. My only technical complaint is with Severed Press, who either forgot or decided not to put the title and author on the spine of the book, making it virtually impossible to locate on a shelf with hundreds of other books. The book is thin, sure, but clearly thick enough to print the title and author. I’ve seen thinner books with text on the spine, so I know it can be done. Other than that, this was a satisfying purchase, but nothing groundbreaking.
Some of the continuity on the weakening of the gym’s outside glass was a little inconsistent, but for an easy, violent and gory read, fans of Edward Lee type of horror should be pleased. My only technical complaint is with Severed Press, who either forgot or decided not to put the title and author on the spine of the book, making it virtually impossible to locate on a shelf with hundreds of other books. The book is thin, sure, but clearly thick enough to print the title and author. I’ve seen thinner books with text on the spine, so I know it can be done. Other than that, this was a satisfying purchase, but nothing groundbreaking.
January 7, 2013
So Much Green Slime!
I love slime and I love lifting weights, so a book that somehow manages to combine the two is a must-have for me. While this isn't really a zombie story, it does what so many good zombie stories do and focuses on the conflicts between the human characters trying to survive the outside threat. Since one of the characters is a steroid-injecting lunatic, these conflicts are just as entertaining as those with the horror lurking outside of the gym. Recommended for anyone who likes fun and slime.
I love slime and I love lifting weights, so a book that somehow manages to combine the two is a must-have for me. While this isn't really a zombie story, it does what so many good zombie stories do and focuses on the conflicts between the human characters trying to survive the outside threat. Since one of the characters is a steroid-injecting lunatic, these conflicts are just as entertaining as those with the horror lurking outside of the gym. Recommended for anyone who likes fun and slime.
July 15, 2014
I would watch this book in movie form in an instant. It was fast paced action and disgusting descriptions that the author made it so you could see clearly everything that was happening, even the stuff you might not have wanted to see. Unfortunately the thing that keeps it from getting 5 stars is I felt that the ending was the weakest point, even if the end result would be the same I felt that there could've been a stronger way to get there. Still highly recommended for a short read with a lot of punch.
December 31, 2014
A fun story but it didn't really have much going on, only three characters and one setting for the entire book. Still though it was a quick read. The ending was flawed but It didn't bother me to much since I envisioned the entire book playing out as a cartoon (as per the cover) anyway.
February 12, 2013
Full review to come at The Bag And The Crow!
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