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Parasite
The flock had run wild for over a thousand years, their numbers increasing with each generation. Racial memory only seeped out through the dreams of the disturbed, their true purpose forgotten.
His stirring body craved sustenance, his thoughts focussed on, once again, to quench his yearning for the sweet taste of hot human blood.
The time of the cull had arrived.
His stirring body craved sustenance, his thoughts focussed on, once again, to quench his yearning for the sweet taste of hot human blood.
The time of the cull had arrived.
128 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 8, 2013
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About the author
Ian Woodhead
127 books161 followersIan Woodhead is just past the age of forty. He lives in the north of England and is married to a wonderful woman. He has forgotten how many children he has. He had been writing for nearly twenty years but has only just gained the confidence to start showing his work. Ian finds it a little creepy writing about himself in the third person.
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February 19, 2021
You know it's going to be bad when it starts out "thank you so and so for finding my mistakes" and the first page, first paragraph there is a grammatical error. It continued throughout the book. "Her" instead of "his", "his" instead of "he", "at" instead of "on" and so on. There were sentences that made absolutely no sense. The story was all over the place. And the ending... "we're all gonna die! We're all gonna die! Oh, everything is fine now. End" Oh. Okay. What was understandable of the story, was good. Just too many jumps and errors. It was distracting.
November 27, 2020
Every thousand years a cull is undertaken in a little sleepy town. It only affects people born there, outsider's who have moved there aren't affected by the parasite who inhibits other peoples bodies to collect its meals for the next thousand years.
I am undecided about this book. The premise for this story is certainly interesting but I feel like it could have been better.
I am undecided about this book. The premise for this story is certainly interesting but I feel like it could have been better.
October 19, 2021
This is a quite entertaining horror story, exactly right for Halloween.
March 8, 2013
This is the story of Dan and Alison. One night they decide to to sneak into the caves where they work. Once there they stumble on some old bones. Bones with unusual teeth formations. Their boss, seeing pound signs flash in front of his eyes, calls some archaeologists. Unbeknownst to all of them a terrible horror has been unleashed on their village - and it is out for vengeance.
This was simply fantastic. It was a step backwards in a sense for Ian as it harks back to his writing before Zombie Armageddon, but much more polished and better written. It was a truly scary read and no punches were pulled. It belted along and the conclusion left me gasping for more. I understand there IS to be a sequel, and I certainly cannot wait!
This was simply fantastic. It was a step backwards in a sense for Ian as it harks back to his writing before Zombie Armageddon, but much more polished and better written. It was a truly scary read and no punches were pulled. It belted along and the conclusion left me gasping for more. I understand there IS to be a sequel, and I certainly cannot wait!
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November 11, 2015Zero stars. Hated this book so much. The worst written piece of junk I have ever read and I have read some crappy books.
Characters were terrible, the pacing awful, there were so many gaps in the narrative I couldn't keep up sometimes.
The last 5% of the book read like the author was running late for something and just wrote whatever to finish.
I paid 99 cents for the book and still feel tremendously ripped off. Is this the authors first work? How is he selling anything if his writing is this terrible?
Characters were terrible, the pacing awful, there were so many gaps in the narrative I couldn't keep up sometimes.
The last 5% of the book read like the author was running late for something and just wrote whatever to finish.
I paid 99 cents for the book and still feel tremendously ripped off. Is this the authors first work? How is he selling anything if his writing is this terrible?
March 11, 2015
Dan works at a cavern gift shop, hoping to spend some time with a girl he likes, he gets Allison to come down in the caves with him. Finding skeletal remains, Allison goes for help. Dan remains and slipping through a crack finds a ring that is the undoing of life as he knows it as the horror is unleashed. great story with action and adventure along with an amazing supernatural terror that readers are going to love.
December 28, 2015
Wow, everyone else seems to have loved this book, and I don't get it. To me it read like one of those $2 Amazon Kindle books. Fairly obvious plot, and then didn't even bother to end the book, just kind of stopped 3/4 of the way through. Characters not developed at all. Add to that: tons of spelling and grammar mistakes, typos throughout...just didn't do it for me at all.
April 17, 2016
2.5 stars. The book was alright. Quite a few mistakes and misspells. Those didn't bother me as much as the ending. I haven't looked, but I assume there is a second part. It felt so unfinished I'm a little disappointed with it.
November 27, 2014
gave up after two thirds through - awful.
January 20, 2017
same old recycled tosh ,painting by numbers for horror books.
l found the cover art more interesting than the book,perhaps that why the author has so many books to his name
l found the cover art more interesting than the book,perhaps that why the author has so many books to his name
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