Breath

by Jackson Creed

Taking a much needed vacation, Avram encounters a lost child in the ruins. She disappears like a breath of desert wind, starting a descent into evil.
The child reached up and grasped three of his fingers; it was all that her tiny hand could encompass. She looked up at him, the long dark hair falling around her face, echoing the color of her eyes, and in those eyes, there was trust. No, not trust, but something else...

"Come with me," she said.

Taking a much needed vacation with a group of friends, Avram encounters the girl in the ruins of an ancient building. In the shadow haunted ruins, the girl disappears with a breath like desert wind, taking Avram's memories of the encounter with her. Thus begins a descent into madness, corruption, and death as a growing plague of evil hounds the companions' every step.

★★★★★ This is a very well crafted and unique story of the horrors of possession, that blends a terrifying story with an original plot and compelling characters. I listened to it straight through. Jackson Creed is definitely a writer to watch

227 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 8, 2017

About the author

Jackson Creed is a writer of generally dark fiction, based somewhere in the wilds of Europe. He rarely ventures out of his cave. His first novel, Breath, however, has done just that.

Reviews

[Constance · Rating 1 out of 5]

I liked the first scene of this book, with the mysterious child pulling the tourist into a spiraling abyss in a strange city of the middle East- but then it just got so boring. The same scene came over and over, the children staring, the girl saying vague things, and the man shopping for clothes, over and over. It comes close to being very iffy about child erotica, which disturbed me. The ending I was waiting for for many chapters, the protagonist obviously incredibly stupid and not understanding what we had got from the beginning, and taking many unnecessary chapters to act. Why doesn't the author realize that saying, over and over, the children stared with glazed expressions, is going to be boring? That the protagonist, over and over, losing the will to act, will be boring?
This started with a cool idea but didn't go anywhere. Also, where is the editor? Multiple mistakes, typos, etc. Repeated words in the same sentences- things that my beginning writer's group would have never let by. A big disappointment.

[Laura · Rating 2 out of 5]

A Strange Tale

I had come across this book as recommended to me by Amazon upon purchasing a different title. The novel is strangely paced and not perhaps the horror tale it is marketed as.

While not a bad book by any means I just couldn’t really find myself engrossed in the story. I would have liked some more historical context for the situation our protagonist finds himself caught up in, more so than the few paragraphs the author dedicated to it.

A decent beach read but not something to write home about

[Jay Caselberg · Rating 5 out of 5]

Intelligent horror, exploring the origins of the Lilith myth rather than traditional vampire stories. Pre-Christian horror meets Children of the Damned. Makes for a new and different take on an overly done familiar trope.

[Laurie Locke · Rating 2 out of 5]

10 Word Review: Book that looks like horror, but is more murder mystery.

Spoiler Free Review: While this book looks like it would be a horror book and has elements of horror, it definitely reads more like a murder mystery to me. I don’t know if my expectations not being met is what caused me to not really enjoy this book, but it was not my favorite.

I felt like the plot was a little confusing. The characters are supposedly all friends traveling together, but they it never really goes into how they know each other, and they honestly don’t seem that friendly with each other lol. I also have no clue what time period this book takes place in, and the plot just kind of slowly clunks along. The ending was a bit anticlimactic as well. Overall, it just wasn’t my cup of tea!

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[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic

I throughly enjoyed this book, I’m a huge Dean Knootz fan and this book goes right up there! Can’t wait to read more from this author