Lord of the Feast

by Tim Waggoner

Twenty years ago, a strange cult attempted to create their own god: The Lord of the Feast. But the god was a horrible, misbegotten thing, and the cultists destroyed the creature before it could come into its full power. The cultists went their separate ways, each carrying with them a piece of the Lord of the Feast so that no one person could ever recreate him.

Now Kate, one of the cultists’ children, seeks out her long-lost relatives, hoping to learn the truth of what really happened on that fateful night. Unknown to Kate, her cousin Ethan is following her, hoping she’ll lead him to the lost pieces of the Lord so he can bring him into existence at last. This time, Ethan plans to do the job right.

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

294 pages, Paperback

First published April 16, 2024

About the author

Tim Waggoner's first novel came out in 2001, and since then, he's published over sixty novels and eight collections of short stories. He writes original dark fantasy and horror, as well as media tie-ins. He's written tie-in fiction based on Supernatural, The X-Files, Alien, Doctor Who, Conan the Barbarian, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Grimm, and Transformers, among others, and he's written novelizations for films such as Ti West’s X-Trilogy, Halloween Kills, Terrifier 2 and 3, and Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. He’s also the author of the award-winning guide to horror Writing in the Dark. He’s a four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award, a one-time winner of the Scribe Award, and he’s been a two-time finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and a one-time finalist for the Splatterpunk Award. He’s also a full-time tenured professor who teaches creative writing and composition at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio.

Reviews

[Leo · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was very entertaining in a horror book way and liked how much was packed in to it. Strange in some ways and a bit gory. Didn't expect it to end that way.

[Thomas Hobbs · Rating 5 out of 5]

A bizarre book. A family (of witches) tried to summon a god and failed. Fast forward 10 years and there is another try but with some opposition, its harder to resurrect the lord of the feast.

[Mel Bell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Let me compose myself and attempt to write a coherent review because WHERE DA FUQ do I begin???

First: Damn, this book is a lot of fun! And, y'all better check those trigger warnings 👀

Tim Waggoner is giving hard Clive Barker vibes in Lord of the Feast, but, like, if Clive Barker had watched all the Hostel movies whilst on a meth bender and then said "F it, we're gonna John Wick it".

Ethan and Kate are both on a mission to right a family mistake, they just might have to kill each other to succeed. The story is fast paced, quirky, and downright 'wrong' in all the right ways. Each chapter introduces a new element that pushes the reader further and further out of reality but without pulling us out of the story completely. Waggoner creates characters that have not one redeeming quality yet somehow are kinda lovable - looking at you Haksaw.

Great read for those who aren't squeamish or uptight :)

[Horror Reads · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a horror novel that works in so many ways. End of the world scenario, disturbing evil characters, secret arcane rituals, and enough disgusting bloody scenes to fill your soul with dread!

Think Hostel meets one of the most messed up families you'll read about and then mix in some truly horrific characters and that's what you'll get with this book.

After a failed attempt to create a God from mismatched body parts, the various body parts are distributed among the members of an apocalyptic cult for safekeeping until they can try again. The failed result caused the deaths of some family members but, for others, it changed them in some very disturbing ways.

Now it's up to Kate, a relative who grew up in this cult but abandoned its teachings, to gather all the body parts so they don't fall into the hands of her great aunt who has spent years killing people to trap their souls in order to bring this God to life to hasten the end of the universe.

Along the way, we're going to meet characters that will chill you to the bone. A serial killer with a torso fetish, a couple who murder together with absolutely no conscience, and Kate's cousin who kills people for fun in the great aunt's murder house (again,think Hostel).

In this pulse pounding, thrilling, terrifying ride, it's a race against time (and death) to stop the end of the universe.

This is a delightfully gruesome, Ooze filled novel with a new gory twist around every corner. I highly recommend it!

I received an ARC of this book through Netgalley with no consideration. This review is voluntary and is my own personal opinion.

[Jesse · Rating 2 out of 5]

As a lifelong horror fan I was intrigued by the premise. It sounded fun and vaguely original. However, in execution, the book felt kind of conventional and predictable from the offset. But I’m also not big into slashers; that’s not to say there’s anything wrong with them, just that they’re not something I enjoy.

The writing throughout the book felt borderline immature (e.g., “he did feel a distant sadness at the thought of the man, though, as if there was an empty place inside him that could never be filled”). As someone who genuinely believes that original concepts are difficult, if not impossible, to come up with, I don’t mind a cliche once in awhile. But that was just awful.

There was one section early on where the information straight up contradicts itself (pg. 62: “in the repository, when you were close to the lord’s head, you felt a jolt of pain, didn’t you? That’s because you can sense the lord’s pieces… And whenever you’re in close proximity to a piece you can feel it. The nearer you are to a part, the more your head will hurt” ; pg 71 “she’d told him that he’d be able to sense the parts of the lord’s body, but not that proximity to them would be so painful for him”). This is nine pages apart and honestly it’s just kind of sloppy.
On pg. 88 the same character passes another body part as he’s driving past a car and doesn’t recognize the sensation even though it’s the same day, writing the sensation off as “weird” but a paragraph later uses the phrase “entropy in action,” can’t maintain the sensations associated with these body parts he’s been trained to hunt down. Now that’s weird and kind of unbelievable.

I don’t know if this is supposed to represent the character not caring about who the artist actually is or of it’s a bad editor not correcting something glaringly obvious, but on pg 110 Ethan mentions “Black Oyster Cult’s ‘Don’t Fear the Reaper” playing on the radio. I’m not even a fan of the band and I know this. Maybe cultural osmosis isn’t in this editor’s lexicon.

Speaking of language, I can’t help but find the dialogue in the book trite and contrived. So much of it feels like Waggoner had a few cool ideas and then stitched the rest together kind of haphazardly. If this was a YA book I could forgive it, but the fact that this is supposed to be an adult horror book written by a creative writing professor leaves a lot to be desired in the actual writing department.

What I will grant this book is that the disturbing passages are disturbing. They’re gruesome and violent without question. I’m still not all that thrilled with the writing though.

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Something of a spoiler for the ending so read no further if you don’t want to be spoiled…

The speech patterns the god uses once it’s reborn are terrible. I don’t know if it’s because the brain was split between two humans and it was just taking what words it could find from their minds, but it’s speech patterns were vaguely dark and enigmatic before they were fused, but once it acquired the brain halves it’s first words are “now this is what I’m talking about… It tickles I guess I’ll have to find a scalp somewhere… maybe I’ll take Lee’s I really like their hair…”
While I appreciate the god being respectful of the non-binary homies, I had trouble believing this was the same god.

The final chapter of the book featured a ritual that was almost fun until this point. I’m no quitter and I will finish a book even if I don’t like it, just in case the final pages really tie together. But I kind of felt like it ruined its own pacing here instead.

The final complaint I have is the god is undone by insecurity due to having shared a brain with humans. There’s heavy-handed metaphor and then there’s being beaten over the head with one.

Honestly, this book was kind of a mess that had a few cool ideas. That said they weren’t enough to keep me interested. The writing wasn’t all that good for someone with as many accolades and awards as he’s got. Nevermind him being a creative writing professor. Between that and what I assume is a bad editor not pointing out the inconsistencies, and just straight up contradictions I don’t see how this book is well regarded.

2/5.

[Marcus · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very dark and unique. Really enjoyed this. Lots of action to move the plot along.

[Daniel R. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some time ago, a cult tried to bring their filthy god to life. They sought the destruction of the Omniverse, whatever that might mean, and through the gruesome grimoire Liber Pravitis Itineribus (The Book of Depravity), found a means of doing so. But when the god was nothing like what they thought it would be, was in fact a bloodthirsty infantile being intent on sowing destruction and bestowing no favors, they stopped it the one way they knew how. Dismembering the thing. The pieces proved impossible to destroy, so they were scattered among the survivors. This way they could prevent anyone from reassembling and trying the terrible ritual.

Now, however, at least one member of that cult is interested in doing just that. Caprice runs a brothel (The House of Red Tears) that offers select services to a special, limited, and homicidal clientele. It’s the easiest way she can think of to assemble the souls of sacrifices for what is to come. When she is ready, she dispatches her nephew Ethan to find the pieces for her … and kill any of the traitors who might be guarding them.

Ethan assumes he is up to the task. However, he may have met his match with his cousin Kate.

She is not interested in the cult’s activities. She was a child when they had their initial failure and has few memories of that night. Instead, she is a good kid who’s been tending to her grandmother and grandfather—the latter has been stricken by a supernatural plague, which has rendered him boneless, yearning for death, and possessed of spooky mental powers.

Soon enough, Kate will be pulled into the horrific events and serve as the one steward and guardian of the dead god’s body parts who never wants them to unite. With the help of beloved partner, Lee, and a torso-obsessed serial killer called Haksaw, she will have to stand against Ethan, his great aunt, and a collection of murderers and monsters who skulk just out of sight of the normal world.

The fate of the Omniverse is in their hands. If they triumph, then the god will never walk again. If Kate fails, however, it will destroy everything. No pressure.

I’ve been reading Tim Waggoner’s fiction off-and-on since his initial books for the Leisure Line of mass market paperback horrors hit stands back in the ‘00s. Like Death, Pandora Drive, Darkness Wakes, as well as the exemplary A Nightmare on Elm Street tie-in novel Protege (for the Black Flame imprint of the Black Library) are wonderful examples of surreal, gory, sexy horror. They are each explorations of the limits of dark fantasy fiction in the spirit of Clive Barker’s fantastique visions. While the author’s range of interests and novels have shifted over the years, moving into heroic fantasy, urban fantasy, media tie ins, Bram Stoker Award winning non-fiction, and even the occasional science fiction piece, a book like Lord of the Feast comes along every now and again to remind us of his roots in the fantastique.

This latest novel is a wonderfully gruesome read, a world built around the concept that a vast majority of the characters who have any inside knowledge of the dark powers at work are the most dangerous of outsiders. So, we get thrill killers aplenty, sexual adventurers who take their kinky fascinations into realms de Sade only dreamed about, and strange creatures who can exist in our world only because they wrap themselves in social invisibility. That said, there are a handful of characters who remain on the light side, whose bodies may be twisted by exposure or proximity to the hideous horrors at play, but who nevertheless do not indulge evil desires. And then there is Kate, our protagonist, a young woman who was accidentally born to cultists and who is taking care of her grandparents though relatively untouched and unaware of the specifics of their actions. She was alive at the time of the lord’s first manifestation, dubbed That Night because of its sinister significance, but she only understands things in a general way if at all. She is not a killer, she is an innocent, and yet she and her partner are the shining lights in this world of darkness. Sadly, she gathers stranger sorts around her, but that’s kind of to be expected.

One of the joyful touches in the book is the wonderful army of ideas for strange locations, beings, creatures to be found here. Many of the worst monsters are human, but there are also inhuman beings aplenty, including Ragmen and Dog Eaters, to keep readers on their toes. There is a bar whose patrons and employees are all Shadow touched (sometimes looking dead, sometimes alive, sometimes in states in between depending on the night), and one of the most intriguing book repositories I’ve encountered in genre fiction. Mundane horrors rub shoulders with mythic ones, and while there is a cosmic horror insignificance at play in the text, Waggoner has fashioned his own mythos instead of cribbing deities and ideas from the Lovecraftians. His is a unique spin on this stuff, the kind of book that bubbles over with horror and dark fantasy ideas the way Philip K. Dick’s sf overflows with cool speculations and quirky notions.

The gory horrors and depravities are as omnipresent as what we might expect from Edward Lee’s output around the era of Succubi or Creekers. Not that Waggoner is all that interested in observing sex acts or perversions. They are there, all right, because that is The House of Red Tears’ raison d’etre. The language brings up the sex and sleaze with very few actual scenes of kinky activity on the page. However, if the main storyline gets a little too gentle, Waggoner introduces one of the Interludes. These are quality views of the body parts Caprice and her people collected back Then, recounted as quality short stories, slices of life, death, and more from the world. They are more than capable of bringing little teases of monstrosity and personal horror along the way. So, Kate’s journey does not have to be an unrelenting excursion into Hell. She gets breathing time to catch up with her family, her partner, learn about the torso obsessed hobo she’s aligned with…

Some readers may find themselves unenthused with the idea of a novel built around this sort of quest pattern. Essentially, the protagonist and her cousin rival are seeking out body parts in much the same way Castlevania II sent Simon Belmont in search of the scattered pieces of Dracula. The book does not adhere to the macabre scavenger hunt antics with a video game’s unshaking focus, however. It’s a story first and foremost, giving us characters to like, those to hiss at, those to fear for, and those we want to see get their just desserts. The search for these components merely provides a frame work, a rationale for our characters to get involved and hustle. However, it’s pretty much a given from the get-go that the climactic action will include enough of the pieces coming together to give us a bloody glimpse of the monster god in action. It’s as grim and nasty a version of Chekov’s gun as we’re likely to see. Waggoner delivers to expectations while also throwing in some clever surprises and twists both along the way as well as in that final encounter.

Lord of the Feast is an entertaining mix of bloody horror and honest emotion and a welcome return to the surreal, gruesome horror hijinks that Waggoner’s longtime fans know and love. With a strong main storyline as well as several clever, wonderfully constructed interludes, it brings some intriguing worldbuilding, some enjoyable characters, and plenty of creative mayhem. All told, this Feast is a bloody good time.

[Carson Buckingham · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tim Waggoner’s latest, Lord of the Feast, is a journey through hell not to be missed. Two families, related by marriage and intent, have decided that the world needs to end, and they want to create a god that can move the Earth into a state of disorder and chaos. Evidently, they view the current progression toward eventual entropy as moving far too slowly. With the god comes the Gyre, an enormous black hole-like thing descending from the sky, which will pull Earthly reality into it and extinguish the human race.

These are not people you want to invite to Christmas dinner.

The way the god is made is by collecting parts from black-souled humans and stitching them together, à la Frankenstein. They took a run at creating this god once before, and it ended in a disaster during which more than half the families were either killed outright or mutated in some horrific way.

But now, they’re ready to give it another shot, but they must first re-collect the body parts that were hidden with surviving family members who may not be too keen on trying for another resurrection anymore. The book becomes a macabre scavenger hunt between the faction that wants to give the Incarnation another try and the one that doesn’t.

Based on my description, you might think that this book is nothing more than pulp fiction, and how wrong you would be. The book is so elegantly written that the first page will remove all doubt and inform you of greatness.

As is usual with Mr. Waggoner, you will find that the book is not glued, but nailed to your hands. He juxtaposes humor and horror so deftly, it is like Lewis Black coming across a disembodied hand while out for a walk. The author also doesn’t include any more explanation than is absolutely necessary, which I love. I am capable of filling in the blanks with my own imagination, and it is to the author’s credit that he presumes that his readers are intelligent enough to do this. Over-explaining does nothing but create a doorstop book that few will read. This book’s pacing is perfect, and it moves the reader right along from horror to horror. What a great ride!

If you have a horror fan on your Christmas list, Lord of the Feast would make a superb gift. And grab one for yourself, while you’re at it!

5 out of 5 stars. Keep ‘em comin’, Mr. Waggoner!

[Daniel · Rating 4 out of 5]

This review originally published in Looking For a Good Book. Rated 4.5 0f 5

Kate is the daughter of a cultist, a part of a group who once tried to create their own god from mis-matched body parts. Things didn't go well and the body parts were distributed among the group until they might be ready to try again. Now, Kate, and her cousin Ethan, are ready to make that next attempt. But they'll have to journey through a bizarre, dark wonderland of odd and dangerous people to get there.

It can be next to impossible to sum up a Tim Waggoner book. He pushes boundaries (going beyond the 'acceptable') and ALWAYS brings us memorable characters. This novel is definitely no exception. The characters here are so much bloody fun. Mr Yes and Mrs No ... I don't think I'll ever forget them.

Combined with Waggoner's wit, wackiness, and wild storytelling, we're taken on truly horrific adventure. Waggoner, more than any horror writer that I've read, regularly takes the reader to a dark Wonderland, and I absolutely love the trip.

Waggoner manages to combine psychological horror with splatterpunk and he doesn't tread lightly. Gore can (and will) be direct and in-your-face. I generally don't like this style of horror, but Waggoner has been the one exception for me. And it isn't just the horror that builds through the course of the book, but the insanity (of the situation, the characters, the story) increases as well.

I first read Tim Waggoner ten years ago, with his Shadow Watch books (Night Terrors and Dream Stalkers) and I was instantly hooked and while I've enjoyed most of Waggoner's books I've read since then, this is the first one that really matches the originality in character and concept since those books a decade ago.

Looking for a good book? If you enjoy horror, dark and in your face, do yourself a favor and read Tim Waggoner's Lord of the Feast.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.

[Chiara Cooper · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is not my first book of this author and it's no wonder I keep jumping on every opportunity to read them.
Every book is a different journey into horror and Lord of the Feast doesn't fail to deliver! The story has a cult, a dysfunctional family and lots of weird characters, transporting the reader into a bizarre voyage through pain and death, the philosophical meaning of entropy and the pull towards oblivion.

The thread keeping all this together is family, albeit a very fucked up one... In pursuit of giving life once again to the Lord of the Feast, Ethan is tasked to find all its pieces, and so is Kate, but for a different purpose, trying to stop the cult from succeeding.
Throughout this sick and twisted hide and seek, we cleverly learn how the Lord pieces came to be in the first place, and we get a glimpse into the twisted minds of Kate's and Ethan's families, as well as learning of dark magic and other realities.

I loved this book and once again I wasn't disappointed by Tim Waggoner's inventive mind and clear writing. I liked all the bizarre characters, and some scenes and descriptions reminded me of Quentin Tarantino's and Tim Burton's characters or scenes. I also appreciated how much dark and perverse humour there is, lifting the reader's mood and allowing them to feel some attachment to even the most hideous characters.

This will appeal to any horror lover that like the twisted and the weird, that like a giggle amidst the dread and an unexpected ending.

Thanks to the author, Flame Tree Press and RandomThingsTours for a copy and this is my honest opinion.

[Vix · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thrown straight into in from the start, you really feel that it's going to be a dark, creepy, and corrupt story.

Grisly doesn't come close to describing the imagery in this book, it's messed up but enthralling. I loved the interlude chapters about the parts, it added an extra touch of darkness.

I thought Mr Yes and Mrs No were great characters, but I wouldn't want to ever meet them. I weirdly grew to like Haksaw... a serial killer with a torso fetish... Just shows how well the writing draws you in.

I felt like I needed more background about the families, and Kate in particular. I also wasn't expecting some of the sexual aspects to it. The ending fell a bit short for me given the build up was so great, there were a few reactions I wasn't expecting.

Overall, if you like your horror dark, and you aren't squeamish of gore, then this is a must read for you. It's brutal but beautiful at the same time.

*I received a complementary copy of the book from RandomThingsTours and am voluntarily leaving an honest review.

[April · Rating 5 out of 5]

As soon as you start reading, you can tell it isn't going to be a book for the faint of heart!

We have demons, we have cults, we have gruesome deaths, killing... it is one heck on a rollercoaster ride of gore and blood... and I love it!

I haven't read a good horror in a long time, so it was fantastic that my first book back into this genre did exactly what it said on the tin - horify me!

I loved Kate and how she was battling against the odds to essentially right the wrong that her family created all those years ago!

We are also introduced to various other mortally questionable characters and some downright evil characters!

The murder scenes early on in the book was the first big shock of many to come and I actually enjoyed the shock as I became invested in seeing the story through to the end - it hooked me as surely the bad guys wil get bad karma?... right???

You'll have to read be book to learn more....

If you love horror, then you really, REALLY need to read this book!

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was sick, twisted and complete insanity from start to finish.

Pretty much every character in this book is messed up in one way or another. And it was funny to see how these characters rated each other on a scale bad to worse (and above/below). I'm not sure how much logic there was in this when a murderer can find that someone is worse/lower than them, but sure bring it on I guess.

Enjoyed all of the action and chaos that happened. And loved that once the story took off it didn't slowdown until it ended. The characters (excluding Kate) were depraved and disgusting individuals who didn't seem to think the sick things the were doing were wrong. In fact some seemed to think they were doing the world a serve...oh, and they were having fun so all's good

The only issue I had with the book was the ending.. I just wanted more, so it was a bit of a let down.

[Karen Bullock · Rating 5 out of 5]

A dark reimagining of “Frankenstein” that leads the reader down a dark and twisty path at how deviant and macabre people can be when they are brainwashed into believing how powerful evil can be.
Under false pretenses cult members make horrendous mistakes that cost more lives in the end; with very few making their escape- it all comes rushing back as someone from the family has plans to right the wrongs and try again.
It is insanity wrapped in a blanket of soulless cult members-depraved; no scene of imagery, movement or thoughts spoken is light; instead it is a full on gut punch.
It is proof that the true monsters are humans, not the ones we try to create.
A shock to the system, this was, but overall one of THEE best horror books to grace my bookshelves.
Thank you Flame Tree Press for this arc and for the flavorful ride this story provided.

[Mauro Saracino · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lord of the Feast is a fast-paced dark urban fantasy that hooked me right from the start. The story leans more toward fantasy than traditional horror, and that works to its advantage—it reminded me of Clive Barker at his most imaginative, but with sharper, more polished prose.

One aspect I didn’t enjoy was the use of non-binary pronouns for the character of Lee. While I understand the intention, referring to a single individual as "they" felt confusing in the flow of the narrative. Honestly, I think certain trends, like this one, should be kept out of literature—especially when they disrupt the reader's immersion.

That aside, the book is engaging, with great pacing and memorable characters. If you’re a fan of dark, fantastical storytelling, this one’s definitely worth your time. Waggoner continues to prove he’s a writer worth following!

[Hugo · Rating 1 out of 5]

Giving up on this halfway through. A wobbly mix of dark horror, urban fantasy, and paranormal romance, the writing is nondescript, full of characters talking and thinking in plot points and exposition, interlude flashbacks of incidental plot that has nothing to do with the actual narrative, most of which seem to be there for shock value, there's a plant character I know is just waiting to be revealed, and the entire conceit is nonsensical—if the heroes are preventing the villains from bringing about the apocalypse by collecting all of the magical items they need (basically, doing their job for them), rather than just hiding one of them to ruin the whole scheme (or just sinking it to the bottom of the ocean, dropping it into a volcano, etc), and the characters actually acknowledge this, and then just go about their day regardless, I call bullshit.

[Donna · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a book! Such a wild ride!

Kate's family were a cult who tried and failed to bring The Lord of the Feast to life, which would end the omniverse. When the ritual failed, the house burned to the ground and most of Kate's family were either dead or changed. Years later, one of the surviving member decides to try again and has to collect all the parts of the Lord. She sends Ethan, Kate's cousin out to get them. Kate is also trying to gather them to prevent this happening again. Thus ensues a race to see who gets them all. With plenty of gore, this is a fantastic horror. And the ending was perfect!

[Lauren Griffiths · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well this book was definitely twisted, gory and a bit disturbing! & I really enjoyed it for all of these reasons! The body part chapters were definitely my favourite and I thoroughly enjoyed reading where each part was taken from and the little snippet into that persons life. I enjoyed the pace of the story as Kate raced against Ethan to right the wrongs of the past and every chapter was jam packed full of action, gore and murder! The character descriptions were great and I really felt that I could picture these characters and even smell some of them… haha! Overall, This book had everything you could want in a great horror story!

[Ryan · Rating 1 out of 5]

Trite, pandering, ESG garbage...
I read horror/fantasy/surreal fiction to escape from the hellscape that is the modern world, not to be reminded of the madness.
Shame because the author clearly has an admirable imagination. Clearly he's sold his soul to Blackrock. Mai pen rai!

[Sophie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had so much fun with this! Cults are a particular interest of mine, and that combined with a black humour, gore, terrible people, and Lovecraftian horror made for a super entertaining read. The ending lost me a bit, it was too abrupt and anti climactic, but the build up was more than worth it

[Ross · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just finished reading this, and wow! Seriously loved it from beginning to end. The characters were so real, and the plot kept me guessing. Definitely going to recommend this one to my friends. Five stars!
Gives clive barker

[Josef Hernandez · Rating 4 out of 5]

One hell of a fun read

For a full review, please go to https://areviewerdarkly.blogspot.com/... and follow me on X @josenher

[Greggy · Rating 3 out of 5]

not really horror so much as dark fantasy YA stuff. just fine!

[Lauren Fitch · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.7 stars

[morgs 🪩 · Rating 5 out of 5]

all I can say was that this book was DARK, it was WILD, it was BLOODY, and it didn’t have too much fantasy in the storyline to be annoying. it was 💯

[Fatguyreading · Rating 5 out of 5]

First of all, let's talk about the the cover. It's striking, creepy and jumps out at you, as I'm sure it will on the shelves. And of course you have to go with red text to denote fear and horror.

This Is a horror novel not for the feint of heart, or the squeamish. It's full to the brim of evil characters, arcane fituals and blood, blood, blood. Oh, and gore, gore, gore.

A bit about the story. A cult attempts to create a God from body parts, but fail and the parts are distributed among the members. Our main Character, Kate, must now find all the body parts to ensure they don't fall into the wrong hands, and the stoty progresses from there. Along the way we meet various despicable murderers and read of some truly gruesome acts.

It's a terrifying read that will have your heart pounding.

The pace of the read is great and oozes around every corner. Characters were well developed with good depth and I read this in two sittings.

5 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 's from me.