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The Night It Got Out
During a blustery winter night, two retired Navy Seals transporting a top secret cargo to NORAD are besieged by an unexpected blizzard. A terrible car accident unleashes a creature with unparalleled killing capacity. Within hours dozens of people are carved up and dismembered in the town of Mangas Pass, Colorado with no end in sight to the carnage. Police Chief, Don Girard pairs up with retired Green Beret Colonel, Elliot Harmon to try to stop the creature from decimating the entire town. Harmon will be forced to face the sins of his past, while Girard helplessly agonizes over every death in an effort to protect the town and his own family. As the bloody body count rises, both men become consumed by a horrifying sequence of events that will forever change their lives The Night It Got Out! From the author of the popular short story collection, Blood Verse, comes a horrifying novel of suspense and terror that you won't be able to put down!
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220 pages, Paperback
First published May 21, 2013
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Patrick James Ryan
9 books75 followersPatrick Ryan is from Columbus, Ohio and started dabbling in writing after college. After marrying Molly and living through the sports and activities of their children for several years he reignited his passion for writing with the publication of the popular short story collection, "Blood Verse" in less than a year. He is known for writing riveting action scenes. He followed up Blood Verse with the number one best seller at Black Bed Sheet Books, "The Night It Got Out," the 70's period novella, "The Maggots Underneath the Porch," a poetry collection titled, "Blood Prose," a sequel to The Night It Got Out: "The Night They Got Out," and a second short story collection, "Out of The Shadows." Most recently, he launched a multi-series collection of novels with the inaugural book: "Demon's Wrath ~ Death in Caguas, A Michael Moretti novel." He plans to write at least 10 books on Michael Moretti and his cohorts as they fight evil across the globe. He is currently working on over a dozen projects, including a Martial Arts Biography, a mainstream detective thriller many think will be movie worthy when published, several novellas, and some horror/sci-fi novels. Patrick enjoys sports, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and most hard rock, and reading great authors. A practitioner of martial arts for over 30 years, he holds a second-degree black belt and is a huge fan of Bruce Lee.
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July 8, 2023
This was a bloody romping read!
A little backstory:
A government vehicle is transporting a secret shipment when it becomes involves in a car accident in Colorado. When the accident happens the "shipment" breaks free releasing a destructive creature that sets its sights on the town of Mangas Pass.
When the creature gets to the town it leaves a bloody visceral trail of limbs and gore in its wake. Police Chief Don Girard goes head to head with the government officials as he tries to not only save his town but to hunt down and kill the creature.
What kind of creature is it? Why is the government protecting it? Is Chief Girard able to save the town? No spoilers here as you will just have to read the book.
Thoughts:
This book was very fast paced as soon as the creature is free and roaming the town ripping up bodies.
I thought I would just read a couple of chapters, but then time got away from me as the next thing I know I am ten chapters into the book as the when the creature goes on a rampage it was hard to break free from the story as I wanted to see what was going to happen next!
I really loved the character Chief Girard as when he wasn't getting the answers to his questions from the government officials I could feel the anger and frustration radiating off the pages as he wants to "serve and protect" the people of his town. What he goes through to get things done with hunting and killing the creature reminds me of how a police chief would act in the time of crisis to protect the town citizens. Giving this book five "Bloody Rampage" stars!
Highly Recommend!
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A little backstory:
A government vehicle is transporting a secret shipment when it becomes involves in a car accident in Colorado. When the accident happens the "shipment" breaks free releasing a destructive creature that sets its sights on the town of Mangas Pass.
When the creature gets to the town it leaves a bloody visceral trail of limbs and gore in its wake. Police Chief Don Girard goes head to head with the government officials as he tries to not only save his town but to hunt down and kill the creature.
What kind of creature is it? Why is the government protecting it? Is Chief Girard able to save the town? No spoilers here as you will just have to read the book.
Thoughts:
This book was very fast paced as soon as the creature is free and roaming the town ripping up bodies.
I thought I would just read a couple of chapters, but then time got away from me as the next thing I know I am ten chapters into the book as the when the creature goes on a rampage it was hard to break free from the story as I wanted to see what was going to happen next!
I really loved the character Chief Girard as when he wasn't getting the answers to his questions from the government officials I could feel the anger and frustration radiating off the pages as he wants to "serve and protect" the people of his town. What he goes through to get things done with hunting and killing the creature reminds me of how a police chief would act in the time of crisis to protect the town citizens. Giving this book five "Bloody Rampage" stars!
Highly Recommend!
For digital artwork images, please see my blog:
https://booknookretreat.blogspot.com/...
November 7, 2016
The Night It Got Out was a fun creature feature.
The story is fairly standard as far as these types of stories go. This one has a military slant and I liked that portion of the story the most. I liked the imagination of the author as to how the creature was created and implemented. (That's as much as I can say without spoilers.)
Once the creature does get out, (as you might suspect from the title), lots of gory action ensues. These sections were fun, but got rather tiresome after a while. Lots of killing is pretty standard for these types of tales, but there was no real connection for me to most of the characters in this book, so I wasn't pulling for them and I really couldn't care less.
I thought the end of the story was well done, but The Night It Got Out didn't add anything new to creature features or the horror genre, in general, and for that reason I gave it 3 stars.
It was fun and fast paced, with a good ending so your mileage may vary.
You can buy your copy here: The Night It Got Out
*I received a free e-copy of this book from the author, in exchange for my honest review. This is it.*
The story is fairly standard as far as these types of stories go. This one has a military slant and I liked that portion of the story the most. I liked the imagination of the author as to how the creature was created and implemented. (That's as much as I can say without spoilers.)
Once the creature does get out, (as you might suspect from the title), lots of gory action ensues. These sections were fun, but got rather tiresome after a while. Lots of killing is pretty standard for these types of tales, but there was no real connection for me to most of the characters in this book, so I wasn't pulling for them and I really couldn't care less.
I thought the end of the story was well done, but The Night It Got Out didn't add anything new to creature features or the horror genre, in general, and for that reason I gave it 3 stars.
It was fun and fast paced, with a good ending so your mileage may vary.
You can buy your copy here: The Night It Got Out
*I received a free e-copy of this book from the author, in exchange for my honest review. This is it.*
February 25, 2017
Wow
What a ride. This book is awesome. I would like to see it as a movie. Try it if you dare.
What a ride. This book is awesome. I would like to see it as a movie. Try it if you dare.
August 15, 2015
A top secret government project is being transported across country. During a heavy snowstorm in Colorado, a traffic accident involving the transport truck causes the release of a monster. Immediately, carnage ensues. The National Guard and FBI arrive on the scene along with local law enforcement. Unfortunately, the beast has escaped near the small town of Mangas Pass. The townsfolk are unprepared for what arrives.
It’s the age old tale of man messing with nature and paying the price. Rare creatures were bred in military captivity and enhanced for the purpose of hunting Viet Cong in Cambodian tunnels during the Vietnam war. This is the last surviving creature from that program. The recounting of the program, the training, and the early exploits before the creature went missing are some of the best parts of the story.
We follow a small town cop, Police Chief Girard, and Colonel Harmon who is charged with fixing the mess from the government’s standpoint. Harmon has overseen the creature program from the start and the creature’s relationship with him has an interesting dynamic. The beauty of such a small town is that everyone knows everyone, but that takes on a different feeling when all that is left of people you’ve known all your life is dismembered body parts.
As for the creature itself, it is intelligent, reasons and plans, and is a purebred killer. In Mangas Pass it just goes for it on a rampage. It doesn’t hide, it doesn’t stick to the shadows, it kills and eviscerates with aplomb. There are plenty of grisly deaths to enjoy in this book as its powerful body, claws, and teeth are put to good use. As the story progresses a Delta team is brought in to try to stop the creature. The story is pretty straightforward and as such there aren’t too many surprises. There’s a bit of a Predator feel to things and a shopping mall provides a great urban jungle for a big face off.
There are plenty of positives about this book, but it didn’t quite work for me. The themes of a government that can’t be trusted and has ulterior motives is too expected. I felt like the story needed to be longer with more incidents and what I’d call set pieces, to show off the creature. The residents of Mangas Pass, aside from Girard, are little more than creature fodder, so I’d like to have had them more fleshed out, prior to them being literally fleshed out by the creature.
It’s the age old tale of man messing with nature and paying the price. Rare creatures were bred in military captivity and enhanced for the purpose of hunting Viet Cong in Cambodian tunnels during the Vietnam war. This is the last surviving creature from that program. The recounting of the program, the training, and the early exploits before the creature went missing are some of the best parts of the story.
We follow a small town cop, Police Chief Girard, and Colonel Harmon who is charged with fixing the mess from the government’s standpoint. Harmon has overseen the creature program from the start and the creature’s relationship with him has an interesting dynamic. The beauty of such a small town is that everyone knows everyone, but that takes on a different feeling when all that is left of people you’ve known all your life is dismembered body parts.
As for the creature itself, it is intelligent, reasons and plans, and is a purebred killer. In Mangas Pass it just goes for it on a rampage. It doesn’t hide, it doesn’t stick to the shadows, it kills and eviscerates with aplomb. There are plenty of grisly deaths to enjoy in this book as its powerful body, claws, and teeth are put to good use. As the story progresses a Delta team is brought in to try to stop the creature. The story is pretty straightforward and as such there aren’t too many surprises. There’s a bit of a Predator feel to things and a shopping mall provides a great urban jungle for a big face off.
There are plenty of positives about this book, but it didn’t quite work for me. The themes of a government that can’t be trusted and has ulterior motives is too expected. I felt like the story needed to be longer with more incidents and what I’d call set pieces, to show off the creature. The residents of Mangas Pass, aside from Girard, are little more than creature fodder, so I’d like to have had them more fleshed out, prior to them being literally fleshed out by the creature.
June 20, 2015
The Night It Got Out is the first full length tale from author Patrick James Ryan, who previously wrote Blood Verse, a compendium of horror influenced short stories and poems. He dives into the equivalent of the classic B-Grade monster movie here with zeal, telling parallel accounts of a virtually unstoppable creature whose only purpose is to kill anyone and everyone who stands in its way.
Don Girard is the police chief of Magnus Pass, the town where a cargo truck carrying the imprisoned beast crashes, freeing it to go on a rampage of blood, guts, and utter chaos. Once the beast is freed, the government rushes in, with retired Green Beret Colonel Elliot Harmon leading the charge to kill or capture the beast.
Through flashback, we learn of Harmon’s unique relationship with the beast and the covert operations that created this genetically mutated killing machine. Though the police chief and Green Beret combine forces in an effort to stop the monster, it’s clear that neither trusts the other, and the motivations of each might be at crossed purposes.
This book moves quickly, shifting from one killing field to the next. From the cover of the book, the beast looks almost like a werewolf or something similar, but the way it’s described makes it more of an amalgam of various predators, including man, with razor sharp claws and teeth, plus incredible strength and speed. It is intelligent, cunning, and hunts humans out of hatred as well as a food source. Though there may have been some possibility of sympathy for this beast that has been manipulated and imprisoned by men its entire life, it was hard for me, as a reader, to see past its desire for unlimited slaughter to perhaps try and understand what it has been forced to become.
Since things move at such a rapid pace with this fairly short book, the reader’s relationships with both Girard and Harmon are rather clipped and terse, much like the relationship these two men share with one another. The bulk of the other characters and what we get to know about them serve only to migrate us from one scene of blood drenched death to another, just like classic monster movies do. We are given very brief glimpses into the lives of the creature’s victims, typically just before they are gone in a blink of an eye; eviscerated, decapitated, and devoured.
Of course, with the government involved, there is a subplot of secret government experiments and diabolical plots revolving the use of such an ultimate killing machine, but it is heavily overshadowed by the gore splattered action that crosses almost every page.
Overall, this is a fun, over the top gore fest. Readers looking for more subtle horror would probably be more inclined to read the author’s other book. Because The Night It Got Out splashes you in the face with buckets of blood, meat, and bones from start to finish.
The author continues to hone his craft with his second book and has done a bang up job with vivid descriptions with this story. I did, however, find it hard to make an emotional investment in either main character, Girard or Harmon. Perhaps it was the quick pace of the story and the limited time to get to know either of them, but I wasn’t drawn to either and found it hard to care what fate had in store for them. With that said, that isn’t a major stumbling block with this type of fast paced, vicious horror tale. Instead, just prepare to strap in and ride this gnarly carnage coaster until the end.
Don Girard is the police chief of Magnus Pass, the town where a cargo truck carrying the imprisoned beast crashes, freeing it to go on a rampage of blood, guts, and utter chaos. Once the beast is freed, the government rushes in, with retired Green Beret Colonel Elliot Harmon leading the charge to kill or capture the beast.
Through flashback, we learn of Harmon’s unique relationship with the beast and the covert operations that created this genetically mutated killing machine. Though the police chief and Green Beret combine forces in an effort to stop the monster, it’s clear that neither trusts the other, and the motivations of each might be at crossed purposes.
This book moves quickly, shifting from one killing field to the next. From the cover of the book, the beast looks almost like a werewolf or something similar, but the way it’s described makes it more of an amalgam of various predators, including man, with razor sharp claws and teeth, plus incredible strength and speed. It is intelligent, cunning, and hunts humans out of hatred as well as a food source. Though there may have been some possibility of sympathy for this beast that has been manipulated and imprisoned by men its entire life, it was hard for me, as a reader, to see past its desire for unlimited slaughter to perhaps try and understand what it has been forced to become.
Since things move at such a rapid pace with this fairly short book, the reader’s relationships with both Girard and Harmon are rather clipped and terse, much like the relationship these two men share with one another. The bulk of the other characters and what we get to know about them serve only to migrate us from one scene of blood drenched death to another, just like classic monster movies do. We are given very brief glimpses into the lives of the creature’s victims, typically just before they are gone in a blink of an eye; eviscerated, decapitated, and devoured.
Of course, with the government involved, there is a subplot of secret government experiments and diabolical plots revolving the use of such an ultimate killing machine, but it is heavily overshadowed by the gore splattered action that crosses almost every page.
Overall, this is a fun, over the top gore fest. Readers looking for more subtle horror would probably be more inclined to read the author’s other book. Because The Night It Got Out splashes you in the face with buckets of blood, meat, and bones from start to finish.
The author continues to hone his craft with his second book and has done a bang up job with vivid descriptions with this story. I did, however, find it hard to make an emotional investment in either main character, Girard or Harmon. Perhaps it was the quick pace of the story and the limited time to get to know either of them, but I wasn’t drawn to either and found it hard to care what fate had in store for them. With that said, that isn’t a major stumbling block with this type of fast paced, vicious horror tale. Instead, just prepare to strap in and ride this gnarly carnage coaster until the end.
October 23, 2015
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This is in no way reflected in my opinion of this novel.
The Night It Got Out is a tale of man's hubris and the inevitable results of messing around with mother nature. While this was an entertaining story it could have been better executed. For me the parts of the story that are 'real' have to be realistic so that I can suspend disbelief during the parts that are not. The majority of the characters were two dimensional and just used as fodder for the creature. The two main characters were written a little better but were very stereotypical as the secretive government agent, Colonel Harmon, and small town Police Chief Girard go about the business of trying to save the people of Mangas Pass. The creature was interesting and bloodthirsty giving the book some high points. The whole thing reminded me of a late, late B-movie, predictable and cheesy but you want to know what happens anyway. This is a fun 3 star tale of science gone wrong.
January 17, 2016
This Science Fiction read was a bit much for me. I struggled with this tale of a beast that gets lose and the people who try to capture it. You throw in government cover ups and it many people may enjoy this story.
June 25, 2015
WOW. what a rollercoaster ride. An awesome book by someone new to me. I highly recommend to anyonewho likes horror. Plus the concept was so amazing and realistic.
August 1, 2024
This one had potential but it feels like it's unnecessarily descriptive of a lot of things, do I need excessively descriptive parts referencing the location the characters spend time in for about a paragraph then leave? Just feels overly wordy, with events in it feeling like an account of them, but with very stale characters surrounding it. Disappointing.
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June 11, 2017I highly recommend this author and this book! You my have nightmares, but the read is worth it! You won't regret it!
September 9, 2017
Patrick writes a hell of a vicious critter story and these little guys are particularly nasty. Don’t let the cover mislead you, this book has neither werewolves nor other creatures of were variety. The hybrid “monsters” in this chilling, gore packed novel are weapons research at its worst, the subjects of cross gene splicing (given a heavy cocktail of pills to increase their intelligence) spoon fed hate and then unleashed into the savage rain forests of Nam to “clean out” VC tunnels during the Vietnam War.
Fast forward some 50 years later and the government has recovered its last remaining prize, last seen in those rain forests, and is quietly transporting it when disaster strikes and the transport wrecks and all hell (literally) breaks loose outside of a small town. Let the chaos and death count begin.
The cover jumps out at you and foreshadows the promise of gore dripping pages of terror. Patrick has written a novel that delivers on this promise and is fueled by copious shots of Nitro. The action is fast and visceral, like a roller coaster ride. He takes the reader on a bumpy ride, full of gore, claws, and bullets. The characters are believable. This reader really enjoyed Elliot Harmon, though a bit more back story would have been nice. The emotional bond he had with the creatures he had a large part in creating is the solid backbone that pushes this story forward and forward it goes, pushing unrelentlessly and unstoppable like a roller coaster with lightning speed and hairpin curves. It reads like a summer blockbuster on speed.
The other characters just didn’t have that same investment for me, but to each their own.
If you enjoy gore and things that go bump in the night, pick up this blazer of a title.
Fast forward some 50 years later and the government has recovered its last remaining prize, last seen in those rain forests, and is quietly transporting it when disaster strikes and the transport wrecks and all hell (literally) breaks loose outside of a small town. Let the chaos and death count begin.
The cover jumps out at you and foreshadows the promise of gore dripping pages of terror. Patrick has written a novel that delivers on this promise and is fueled by copious shots of Nitro. The action is fast and visceral, like a roller coaster ride. He takes the reader on a bumpy ride, full of gore, claws, and bullets. The characters are believable. This reader really enjoyed Elliot Harmon, though a bit more back story would have been nice. The emotional bond he had with the creatures he had a large part in creating is the solid backbone that pushes this story forward and forward it goes, pushing unrelentlessly and unstoppable like a roller coaster with lightning speed and hairpin curves. It reads like a summer blockbuster on speed.
The other characters just didn’t have that same investment for me, but to each their own.
If you enjoy gore and things that go bump in the night, pick up this blazer of a title.
January 24, 2016
I was provided a copy of the book by the author via Good Reads. This horror novel is fast paced and held my interest throughout. I actually felt empathy toward the creature in the story. Although he was brutal and violent, he was only doing what he had been bred/trained to do. A good old fashioned pulp horror read.
July 7, 2015
Good premise poor editing and writing.
Sounded interesting but the use of !!!!!!!! & sloppy research made this a waste of money. Wish I had skipped this one.
Sounded interesting but the use of !!!!!!!! & sloppy research made this a waste of money. Wish I had skipped this one.
February 24, 2016
I won this book through Goodreads. I really liked this book. It was scary & made me think. I couldn't put the book down so I finished it very quickly. Really enjoyable.
October 8, 2021
I received a copy of this Ebook from the author, Patrick James Ryan, in exchange for an honest review. This is in no way reflected in my opinion of this novel; my review may contain spoilers. The Night It Got Out is a fun, fast-paced creature-feature that combines sci-fi and horror, taking the reader through the nightmare that ravages the city of Mangus Pass, Colorado.
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What begins as a government funded scientific expedition into the Congo River Basin to study the Bonobo Chimpanzee, wrought with accidents and an unsanctioned breeding program, eventually leads the United States government to create a classified military weapon to aid in the destruction of the Viet Cong. Like most genetically enhanced creatures, this beast evolves at unexpected rates, intellectual capacity, with far more savage and lethal instincts than predicted. And, of course, this creature eventually gets away from his creators. The Creature lives in hiding for 38 years, feeding off the Hmong people, eventually being recaptured by the United States Government and brought stateside, where he once again has the strength and intelligence to set himself free to terrorize and destroy. Patrick James Ryan creates fear in the reader at the start of the book by describing The Creature in detail, allowing us to visualize both the physical horror and the basal terror experienced upon encountering The Creature. “…his scrotum involuntarily ascending to his pelvic cavity in mortal fear…” “…his bladder releasing urine, fear and adrenaline coursing through his body in morbid anticipation…” Throughout this book, Ryan paints horrific scenes of violence in the city’s shopping centers and homes, while government entities and local police chase The Creature. The book is action driven with the characters as the background story; it is a gory nightmare that we cannot look away from, leaving us with a shocking ending. Dare I say two shocking endings. Patrick James Ryan gives us a new horrifying spin on a classic tale. While reading this book I cringed in pain, gasped in horror, sat gaping at, and cheered for both The Creature and for the local police chief. If you are a fan of creature-feature and gory horror, then I highly recommend this book to you; it was a 5 star read for me.
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What begins as a government funded scientific expedition into the Congo River Basin to study the Bonobo Chimpanzee, wrought with accidents and an unsanctioned breeding program, eventually leads the United States government to create a classified military weapon to aid in the destruction of the Viet Cong. Like most genetically enhanced creatures, this beast evolves at unexpected rates, intellectual capacity, with far more savage and lethal instincts than predicted. And, of course, this creature eventually gets away from his creators. The Creature lives in hiding for 38 years, feeding off the Hmong people, eventually being recaptured by the United States Government and brought stateside, where he once again has the strength and intelligence to set himself free to terrorize and destroy. Patrick James Ryan creates fear in the reader at the start of the book by describing The Creature in detail, allowing us to visualize both the physical horror and the basal terror experienced upon encountering The Creature. “…his scrotum involuntarily ascending to his pelvic cavity in mortal fear…” “…his bladder releasing urine, fear and adrenaline coursing through his body in morbid anticipation…” Throughout this book, Ryan paints horrific scenes of violence in the city’s shopping centers and homes, while government entities and local police chase The Creature. The book is action driven with the characters as the background story; it is a gory nightmare that we cannot look away from, leaving us with a shocking ending. Dare I say two shocking endings. Patrick James Ryan gives us a new horrifying spin on a classic tale. While reading this book I cringed in pain, gasped in horror, sat gaping at, and cheered for both The Creature and for the local police chief. If you are a fan of creature-feature and gory horror, then I highly recommend this book to you; it was a 5 star read for me.
September 15, 2024
I would've loved to rate this higher. Gory B-movie in book form? Yes please! I am nothing if not a devotee of the Roger Corman/Asylum school of filmmaking, and I love trashy 70s horror like Shaun Hutson, James Herbert, and Richard Laymon. This book seemed like it would be right up my alley!
Unfortunately, the typos and grammatical errors rendered it practically unreadable, especially as it reached the end (hard to really feel the emotional punch when a woman sobs that her dead husband "threw himself in front of the beast to safe us!") and there was a meanspirited thread of racism that I didn't appreciate in a book published so recently. Yes, the racist old army man being, well, racist was to be expected, but the creature used some of the same stereotypes in its thoughts, and the supposedly loving family man, our protagonist, listened tamely while said racist army man used slurs for Asian people such as his wife. These parts just weren't fun to read... which is the whole point of books like this!
On the upside, these problems are extremely fixable. If Black Sheets/Ryan himself were ever to release a new edition that had been properly edited and had the racism toned down and restricted to the characters that are actually supposed to be racist, I'd be the first in line to buy it. I mean,
Unfortunately, the typos and grammatical errors rendered it practically unreadable, especially as it reached the end (hard to really feel the emotional punch when a woman sobs that her dead husband "threw himself in front of the beast to safe us!") and there was a meanspirited thread of racism that I didn't appreciate in a book published so recently. Yes, the racist old army man being, well, racist was to be expected, but the creature used some of the same stereotypes in its thoughts, and the supposedly loving family man, our protagonist, listened tamely while said racist army man used slurs for Asian people such as his wife. These parts just weren't fun to read... which is the whole point of books like this!
On the upside, these problems are extremely fixable. If Black Sheets/Ryan himself were ever to release a new edition that had been properly edited and had the racism toned down and restricted to the characters that are actually supposed to be racist, I'd be the first in line to buy it. I mean,
December 28, 2022
Woo, that was a really fun creature feature! There was gore galore! This creature has absolutely no chill! A big bad monster thing (you'll have to read it to find out what kind of monster) escapes from it's military confinement to go absolutely bananas on an unsuspecting town. Police chief Girard is pissy because the military is not letting him investigate due highly confidential circumstances surrounding the creature.
This is a new creature for me and I found it crazy entertaining. It's way stronger than humans, bullets don't bother it much, and all it wants to do is kill. Intense beast versus humans scenes, lots of blood and decapitations, and just enough heart to make you feel good. This was my first book from this author and I can say with absolute certainty it won't be my last because I've already got the next book, The Night They Got Out, ready to start. Definitely recommend.
This is a new creature for me and I found it crazy entertaining. It's way stronger than humans, bullets don't bother it much, and all it wants to do is kill. Intense beast versus humans scenes, lots of blood and decapitations, and just enough heart to make you feel good. This was my first book from this author and I can say with absolute certainty it won't be my last because I've already got the next book, The Night They Got Out, ready to start. Definitely recommend.
October 10, 2021
Government experiment… genetically engineered hybrid creature transported through Colorado by only two men, it’s cold… nothing can go wrong.
Except it does, then carnage ensues.
The hybrid leaves a trail of viscera for those lucky few that are charged to track it down… spoilers…. I won’t.
I didn’t expect to like it as much as I did, the armed forces/government aspects usually kill a book for me, but this one was done in a way that I didn’t mind it. There are a few moments where I was like ahh seen that coming, but the more in depth you get the more twisted things become. Definitely recommend it to the sci-fi horror crowd.
I give it five rockets… read the book and you’ll get it 😁
Except it does, then carnage ensues.
The hybrid leaves a trail of viscera for those lucky few that are charged to track it down… spoilers…. I won’t.
I didn’t expect to like it as much as I did, the armed forces/government aspects usually kill a book for me, but this one was done in a way that I didn’t mind it. There are a few moments where I was like ahh seen that coming, but the more in depth you get the more twisted things become. Definitely recommend it to the sci-fi horror crowd.
I give it five rockets… read the book and you’ll get it 😁
December 5, 2018
I'm on page 122, and there are alot of people in that mall, in for a big surprise. It can open doors. And I love how Patrick james ryan brought up his book blood verse, by someone in the mall shopping at Barnes and noble. I'm actually excited to finish this, I'll be back!!!@ well I finished it, and I loved the gut chewing horror, and the fact of its mating rituals totally shocked me. All in all, I give it 4 stars out of 5, very good read, and I recommend it to lovers of bone crunching, gut chewing, blood drinking throw back to the 80,s good time horror.
February 7, 2020
Very impressive creature but some scenes are a bit much for me
This book was a good book but the implications of it left me very disturbed. I am not a naive person and I realize our government has probably done things which would disturb me. The creatures in this book are terrifying but they were born to be terrifying. If you enjoy creature horror and you don't mind some really brutal scenes, then this will be a great book for you to enjoy.
This book was a good book but the implications of it left me very disturbed. I am not a naive person and I realize our government has probably done things which would disturb me. The creatures in this book are terrifying but they were born to be terrifying. If you enjoy creature horror and you don't mind some really brutal scenes, then this will be a great book for you to enjoy.
May 14, 2016
To be honest, it was very difficult paying attention to the story as it had spelling errors, punctuation mistakes, and other unforgiveable typos.
Story-wise, it is by no means original or even offered a fresh approach to the token 'government experiment runs amok, it's hushed up, government continues to keep the project active'.
Characters were one-dimensional, hollow, and I felt no sympathy for them. Most, if not all, were taken beyond bordering on military stereotyped and cliches.
Female characters were treated harshly, men were made out to be macho heroes when not as weaklings. Gender was made an issue in accordance with the plot, following good-old Hollywood B-movie laws that women are victims of rape (a subject either treated as taboo or as a poorly written 'biggest sin the villain can commit'), and nothing much else happens besides the usual cookie-cutter government's 'for the good of mankind we will continue playing God & committing atrocities'.
Real-life events such as Vietnam and 9/11 are used as crucial plot-points. I found that very disrespectful, if not, again, unoriginal and tactless.
Story-wise, it is by no means original or even offered a fresh approach to the token 'government experiment runs amok, it's hushed up, government continues to keep the project active'.
Characters were one-dimensional, hollow, and I felt no sympathy for them. Most, if not all, were taken beyond bordering on military stereotyped and cliches.
Female characters were treated harshly, men were made out to be macho heroes when not as weaklings. Gender was made an issue in accordance with the plot, following good-old Hollywood B-movie laws that women are victims of rape (a subject either treated as taboo or as a poorly written 'biggest sin the villain can commit'), and nothing much else happens besides the usual cookie-cutter government's 'for the good of mankind we will continue playing God & committing atrocities'.
Real-life events such as Vietnam and 9/11 are used as crucial plot-points. I found that very disrespectful, if not, again, unoriginal and tactless.
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July 17, 2016
A bit too scary for me, but if you like to be scared, read this book.
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