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Us is the story of Eddie Schumbert, a ruthless serial killer who is afflicted with something much darker than even his murderous lust for blood: multiple personalities.
Led by the base Person, known as The Counselor, Eddie constantly teeters back and forth between self-discovery and self-destruction, for the past ten years being able to subdue his more wicked incarnations and live a life of peace and non-violence in his hometown of Brenton, Pennsylvania.
However, things are not always what they seem, and The Counselor realizes she been fooling herself this entire time, as one by one the Persons of Eddie’s Upper End are being killed off and replaced by the sadistic undesirables from the Lower End. In a frantic race against time, can The Counselor find the means to save herself and the unsuspecting victims on the Outside, or will she discover a secret much more gruesome and terrifying: That sometimes, “all it takes is a lil’ poison to ruin the whole pot”?
Led by the base Person, known as The Counselor, Eddie constantly teeters back and forth between self-discovery and self-destruction, for the past ten years being able to subdue his more wicked incarnations and live a life of peace and non-violence in his hometown of Brenton, Pennsylvania.
However, things are not always what they seem, and The Counselor realizes she been fooling herself this entire time, as one by one the Persons of Eddie’s Upper End are being killed off and replaced by the sadistic undesirables from the Lower End. In a frantic race against time, can The Counselor find the means to save herself and the unsuspecting victims on the Outside, or will she discover a secret much more gruesome and terrifying: That sometimes, “all it takes is a lil’ poison to ruin the whole pot”?
182 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 20, 2019
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July 10, 2019
Multiple personalities fighting for control. Hmmmmm. Different. Some what gruesome.
August 5, 2019
Well-written, but extremely violent. If you're queasy, you might skip this one.
September 18, 2026
Trigger warnings needed
This was a tough one for me as I have known quite a few people with multiple personality disorders and none of them had anything like what is portrayed here or in other media. These tend to be ordinary people who have suffered some sort of childhood trauma and it becomes their coping mechanism. These stories tend to cause more harm than good. Even a well written story like this one gives the general public the wrong ideas and more often than not they become the violent ones. We fear things we don't truly understand.
Objectively I found this to be a fairly well written written story in the horror genre. The alters were fairly well defined even though they were all evil in one way or another. This is a book that I caution people of reading except from a fictitious standpoint. Don't assume it could have any basis in reality.
This was a tough one for me as I have known quite a few people with multiple personality disorders and none of them had anything like what is portrayed here or in other media. These tend to be ordinary people who have suffered some sort of childhood trauma and it becomes their coping mechanism. These stories tend to cause more harm than good. Even a well written story like this one gives the general public the wrong ideas and more often than not they become the violent ones. We fear things we don't truly understand.
Objectively I found this to be a fairly well written written story in the horror genre. The alters were fairly well defined even though they were all evil in one way or another. This is a book that I caution people of reading except from a fictitious standpoint. Don't assume it could have any basis in reality.
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