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Handbook For A Teenage Antichrist
Handbook for a Teenage Antichrist - the first book in the armageddon series.
When high school senior Balthazar Video enters his last semester, he meets transfer student Lucie Milton, a girl who is beautiful, quirky, and intimidating. Bal finds himself drawn to Lucie like a moth to a flame, ignoring all the warning signs that she’s keeping something from him.
Bal is keeping his own secret from Lucie though. He’s facing the biggest challenge of his life as his body begins to twist and fill with a new, dark power he was unaware he possessed.
Can Bal trust Lucie to help him through these horrific changes? Or is Lucie playing her own game, a game he doesn’t know the rules to?
Thrilling, heartbreaking, and terrifying, Handbook for a Teenage Antichrist will take you to the dark places you never knew existed, and never wanted to.
When high school senior Balthazar Video enters his last semester, he meets transfer student Lucie Milton, a girl who is beautiful, quirky, and intimidating. Bal finds himself drawn to Lucie like a moth to a flame, ignoring all the warning signs that she’s keeping something from him.
Bal is keeping his own secret from Lucie though. He’s facing the biggest challenge of his life as his body begins to twist and fill with a new, dark power he was unaware he possessed.
Can Bal trust Lucie to help him through these horrific changes? Or is Lucie playing her own game, a game he doesn’t know the rules to?
Thrilling, heartbreaking, and terrifying, Handbook for a Teenage Antichrist will take you to the dark places you never knew existed, and never wanted to.
336 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 12, 2012
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January 4, 2013
Amazing! Excellent writing, not too bleak, characters that get you to feel for them in an instant and has a lot of funny moments too with quirky, smart and sometimes even cute humor! At the same time it can also be horrifying, not sparing any graphic details about the suffering some characters go through and giving us a very very descriptive, grotesque and chilling vision of the place we fear most; Hell itself. Definitely a good read. Highly recommended!
December 31, 2019
I Wish There Was More
I've been a fan since the /r/nosleep days, I stumbled over them looking for something that was ACTUALLY scary. I bought the book ages ago, not long after it first came out, with every intention of devouring it. It didn't happen and when I saw the title again on my Kindle I decided to finally finish it. I restarted from page one, and spent most of my free time in the days since christmas tearing through it with the kind of attention I haven't paid a book in a long while. The imagery within Handbook blew me away, there's something about the way scenes are written that pulled me in and left me with goosebumps more than once. Scenes that leave your stomach twisted with hate for school bullies and uncaring staff. It's a story that we can all relate to on the surface. The characters are relatable and grounded in reality. Their emotions and reactions are believable. Even Murmur, our resident demon who gives Vald the Impaler a run for his money, has a depth to him that makes us want to know more even while he scares the shit out of our protag.
In conclusion: I love it and I'm going to go read more because.... who needs sleep, right?
I've been a fan since the /r/nosleep days, I stumbled over them looking for something that was ACTUALLY scary. I bought the book ages ago, not long after it first came out, with every intention of devouring it. It didn't happen and when I saw the title again on my Kindle I decided to finally finish it. I restarted from page one, and spent most of my free time in the days since christmas tearing through it with the kind of attention I haven't paid a book in a long while. The imagery within Handbook blew me away, there's something about the way scenes are written that pulled me in and left me with goosebumps more than once. Scenes that leave your stomach twisted with hate for school bullies and uncaring staff. It's a story that we can all relate to on the surface. The characters are relatable and grounded in reality. Their emotions and reactions are believable. Even Murmur, our resident demon who gives Vald the Impaler a run for his money, has a depth to him that makes us want to know more even while he scares the shit out of our protag.
In conclusion: I love it and I'm going to go read more because.... who needs sleep, right?
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 10, 2018
Yes, at times I found the writing confusing, and i'm not sure I fully understood the ending or the significance of certain events, in fact its quite a roller-coaster ride of WTF - but having said all this, there is no doubt the author has captured some incredible dark imagery here which will stay with me for some time. He makes you care for the characters, and he is able to draw you into the story. You can picture it in you mind. You can feel it. There is an uncomfortable foreboding as events play out. It is very original. Impressive.
February 8, 2016
Christopher Bloodworth has a very captivating writing style. I first found his stories on Reddit: NoSleep, and I can't say I wasn't excited to find some of his books outside of it on site's like Amazon. I've always had a penchant for Horror as a genre, and NoSleep is usually my escape for that, because of the intense originality of the stories. Christopher Bloodworth is one of my more favoured authors there.
This book I had a tendency to read at night, and on a few of them, I had to stop reading for a while, (and was tempted to read manga to offset it) because it actually started to make me feel that suffocating, irrational thrill of fright. It doesn't help, I'm sure, that my room seems to have the most ability to echo sounds from outside louder than anywhere else in the house. Not to mention there is a window beside my bed that overlooks our porch. It takes a great deal to truly frighten me, and Christopher Bloodworth's creation has done it.
As for the characters, I do see some pattern arising as to a plot twist I believe is coming. With the name of his love being what it was, I wouldn't be surprised if I was right, especially with her revelations. However, she vexes me so, when it comes to her reactions and such, and it makes me wonder about her real intentions (especially if I am correct in my possible assumptions.) I love how you get to see the inner turmoil of the main character Balthazar, and you get to see his good intentions in many ways, which end up shaping his behaviour. You know what they say, though, "The road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions."
This book is really graphic, so I don't suggest it for the faint of heart, however, in this case, you need that visceral edge to make it more real and terrifying. Christopher Bloodworth is great at giving up that most visceral edge to his audience. This is more graphic in the area of gore, however, and it is also emotionally a roller coaster. I loved it. I can't wait for the next one.
This book I had a tendency to read at night, and on a few of them, I had to stop reading for a while, (and was tempted to read manga to offset it) because it actually started to make me feel that suffocating, irrational thrill of fright. It doesn't help, I'm sure, that my room seems to have the most ability to echo sounds from outside louder than anywhere else in the house. Not to mention there is a window beside my bed that overlooks our porch. It takes a great deal to truly frighten me, and Christopher Bloodworth's creation has done it.
As for the characters, I do see some pattern arising as to a plot twist I believe is coming. With the name of his love being what it was, I wouldn't be surprised if I was right, especially with her revelations. However, she vexes me so, when it comes to her reactions and such, and it makes me wonder about her real intentions (especially if I am correct in my possible assumptions.) I love how you get to see the inner turmoil of the main character Balthazar, and you get to see his good intentions in many ways, which end up shaping his behaviour. You know what they say, though, "The road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions."
This book is really graphic, so I don't suggest it for the faint of heart, however, in this case, you need that visceral edge to make it more real and terrifying. Christopher Bloodworth is great at giving up that most visceral edge to his audience. This is more graphic in the area of gore, however, and it is also emotionally a roller coaster. I loved it. I can't wait for the next one.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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