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Fresh Meat
It’s July 4, 2000, in Comer, Alabama.
Three individuals with ties to torture, murder, and slavery are about to come together in an unexpected way. Old Soj is an African-American woman with family roots to slavery. Supernatural powers emerge for the umpteenth time in her life, and most interestingly, she has a recurring vision of a white thirteen-year-old boy whom she’s never met, telling her to “save the boy.” Warden E.J. Jones is a sadistic, psychopathic man who cruelly reigns over Arm Liom Prison. He and every inmate become mesmerized by a new young arrival known as Punk.
On July 4, 2000, a powerful evil is awakening that cannot be stopped except by one force. Darkness and light are about to come face-to-face.
Three individuals with ties to torture, murder, and slavery are about to come together in an unexpected way. Old Soj is an African-American woman with family roots to slavery. Supernatural powers emerge for the umpteenth time in her life, and most interestingly, she has a recurring vision of a white thirteen-year-old boy whom she’s never met, telling her to “save the boy.” Warden E.J. Jones is a sadistic, psychopathic man who cruelly reigns over Arm Liom Prison. He and every inmate become mesmerized by a new young arrival known as Punk.
On July 4, 2000, a powerful evil is awakening that cannot be stopped except by one force. Darkness and light are about to come face-to-face.
378 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 6, 2015
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About the author
B. Bentley Summers
14 books135 followersBryce is professionally a psychologist who has worked mainly with veterans and provides LGBT consultation. He writes across multiple genres in both YA and Adult, his works including Sci-Fi, Dark Fantasy, Horror, and even Romance.. For those individuals seeking a niche with extra spice and erotica, Bryce also writes gay fiction romances that range in levels of darkness. His Wehr Wolff Castle: The Werhmacht's Mutante Wolf Project (Horror/Gay Romance/Spy Thriller) will be published by NineStar Press in 2017. His nonfiction book, Queer Sense—a work that describes how culture shapes attitudes towards LGBTQA+ individuals—is scheduled to be published in 2018. Bryce has self-published Rotville, The Zombie Squad, and The Flesh Stalker Series: Tales of Daemon the Demon Boy. His early works include Amen to Rot and Fresh Meat. Bryce was the winner of the 2015 Dan Poynter Global eBook Award for Gay Fiction for his novel Fresh Meat. His Sci-Fi novel, Rotville, was a 2015 U.S. Book News Finalist and took first place for best unpublished manuscript at the 2015 Hollywood Book Festival. Additionally, The Zombie Squad was a 2016 Readers Favorite finalist for YA Horror.
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August 17, 2015
I have a lot to say about this book so make sure you're comfortably seated.
Staring off by addressing what I considered to be the positive aspects of Fresh Meat, the wirting style is good good, very gripping, and the subject dealt with in the book was a great choice and I have to admit: it opened my eyes to some realities I wasn't aware of.
But then what were initially little problems became big ones during my reading experience with Fresh Meat.
It started as soon as the characters began being introduced: why the anagrams? I found them unnecessary and annoying since they made the names of most characters sound unrealistic.
Then a lot of scenes were repeated very often. I know they were repeated dreams or someone having the dream and thinking about the dream or the same scene viewed by different characters, but they were always told the same way. This made me want to skip a few pages many times and I would highly suggest shifting or mixing up things every time you repeat something because otherwise the reader will just find it a bit boring.
Then there is the main character Soj who is a 100% good woman and therefore 100% unrealistic too. I do believe it would have been so great it Soj could have a bit of bad or evil in herself and the book explored how she dealt with it!
And then there is E.J.'s redemption. He got to be redempted because he could have been a good man if not for the childhood traumatic experience he went through. But then so could have other inmates! Throughout the book we read everyone's story and all inmates had a traumatic childhood/juvenile experience that caused them to be the evil people they came to be. But if the waren can get redemption I think the other (or some of the other) inmates could have gotten it too, and not just be condemned like they were.
Overall I just believe Fresh Meat could have been a more interesting read if it had taken under consideratioj that every person has a bit of good and bad within themselves and we should be thaught how to deal with this, not aim to an unreachable ideal.
Staring off by addressing what I considered to be the positive aspects of Fresh Meat, the wirting style is good good, very gripping, and the subject dealt with in the book was a great choice and I have to admit: it opened my eyes to some realities I wasn't aware of.
But then what were initially little problems became big ones during my reading experience with Fresh Meat.
It started as soon as the characters began being introduced: why the anagrams? I found them unnecessary and annoying since they made the names of most characters sound unrealistic.
Then a lot of scenes were repeated very often. I know they were repeated dreams or someone having the dream and thinking about the dream or the same scene viewed by different characters, but they were always told the same way. This made me want to skip a few pages many times and I would highly suggest shifting or mixing up things every time you repeat something because otherwise the reader will just find it a bit boring.
Then there is the main character Soj who is a 100% good woman and therefore 100% unrealistic too. I do believe it would have been so great it Soj could have a bit of bad or evil in herself and the book explored how she dealt with it!
And then there is E.J.'s redemption. He got to be redempted because he could have been a good man if not for the childhood traumatic experience he went through. But then so could have other inmates! Throughout the book we read everyone's story and all inmates had a traumatic childhood/juvenile experience that caused them to be the evil people they came to be. But if the waren can get redemption I think the other (or some of the other) inmates could have gotten it too, and not just be condemned like they were.
Overall I just believe Fresh Meat could have been a more interesting read if it had taken under consideratioj that every person has a bit of good and bad within themselves and we should be thaught how to deal with this, not aim to an unreachable ideal.
February 6, 2016
Fun, speculative fiction regarding a 111 year old with magical powers. Prison fantasy--all very negative--Lots of LGBT content. Who are the prisoners of their fate--inmates or corrupt guards.
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