Borrasca V

by C.K. Walker

Genres: Horror, Audiobook, Horror Thriller, Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Short Stories

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About the author

C.K. Walker has been published by Jitter Press, The Altar Collective, and Thought Catalog. Her stories have been adapted for audio by Chilling Tales for Dark Nights and the NoSleep Podcast.

Reviews

[Benzo Wilson · Rating 2 out of 5]

I want that whole mf town dead

[Maleika · Rating 2 out of 5]

I want to burn that town to the ground (and this ending to the story with it). This feels like an action film inspired fanfiction of the actual story, rather then a realistic ending. Don’t get me wrong, I wish something like Borrasca V could feasibly happen in the Borrasca-setting, but I don’t think it could.

[Taylor Seiverd · Rating 2 out of 5]

ugh.. this started off SO GOOD. but that ending? rough to get through

i listened to this through the CreepCast Podcast with Wendigoon & Papa Meat.

the first story was incredible. i did not need a sequel at all. the ending of the first story was so impactful. i just feel this takes all of that away. Borrasca 1 was so realistic, the hopelessness, the brutality, the possibility that this is some people’s reality via sex trafficking. this… the writing here just wasn’t great. the resolution wasn’t good. i, so much prefer the original ending.

i am so disappointed in this. the dialogue is what really destroyed this. chapter 15 on was really hard to listen to. the beginning was a hot start, but the ending plummeted.

although, i do miss Kyle☹️

[Audrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sequel to Borrasca set a decade later.
Ties everything up nicely and worth a read.

[Aim Clark · Rating 1 out of 5]

Thanks, I absolutely hated it. Horrible.

[Olivia · Rating 1 out of 5]

girl… what happened?

[Toby · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think the podcast was great. It was greatly directed and the acting was pretty good too, looking at the actors. Obviously, they had to come up with a lot of the filler lines and the therapist scenes for the first book in order to make it into the podcast.

The podcast was set up in a way where it was like you were listening to a movie without the sound, which I am aware is the gist, but there was no set narrator and just felt different to me.

The Narrator was Sam[Cole Sprouse] of course, but he was telling it through a backstory instead. I don't know, it's just different to me with the small middle scenes with him in the future with his roommate.

The book obviously had a different feel to it. It's not all dialog, it's descriptive, and there is someone completely different telling the story.

To some people, I can see the disappointment of the ending if they were looking for the more spooky and supernatural stuff but I found it... nice. It was a really good book! [both 1 and 2]

Don't really know how to put my thoughts on this into words but it was a nice read/listen. I would recommend it to someone who likes horror/thriller mystery, is bored, or both.

I'm iffy on my rating but I'll give it 5 cause I did enjoy my time spent on this.

[Tristan · Rating 4 out of 5]

kimber is the literal embodiment of girl boss and she couldn’t stop serving even if she wanted to. girl got her masters in cuntology from the university of penSERVEania and ate that whole town up and managed to leave absolutely zero crumbs

[Paulina · Rating 2 out of 5]

ck Walker stop writing sequels challenge

[Julian · Rating 1 out of 5]

it was so bad I stared laughing a few times

[Gideon Schwamb · Rating 1 out of 5]

Great characters, atrocious ending. Walker can set up great and meaningful connections between her protagonists, but the villain of this story is extremely one sided, which I wouldn't mind if he wasn't so cartoonish in his villainy. Considering the mature and dark subject matter, he feels like a slap in the face tonally, and is the only thing holding this story back.
Read if you want to, but I'd recommend finding a read-aloud video to make the ending more enjoyable.

[Clarissa · Rating 2 out of 5]

What the

[Krys · Rating 2 out of 5]

what a disappointment omg 😭

[Liv · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nooooo! I’m so disappointed

[Jaidyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

It started off so good and then got so bad

[George Kostis · Rating 1 out of 5]

This almost derailed the entire Borasca story, so I'm choosing to view it in isolation.

[Ethan Capehart · Rating 1 out of 5]

I AM THE ALPHA SAM 👹

[ALemonYoYo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Better than the first in terms of writing. The twists are really good, still a bit iffy on the whole plot though.

[Amber Walker · Rating 1 out of 5]

why 😭

[Michelle · Rating 2 out of 5]

So, I listened to the podcast for the first parts & finished it up reading this. This whole part though just felt rushed & a bit sloppy. Kimber seemed like a bit of an ass the whole time too. I don't know if the issue is that I switched from podcast to reading it or what. I went back & read a little bit from the beginning & the podcast has a different feel to it. The podcast had no real conclusion, so I am at least glad to have it wrapped up.

Also I don't really buy into Sam's dad as being the bid baddie. He is very obsessed with his daughter but acts disgusted when Sam implies that he was raping her for years. So okay, you aren't raping her but you let a bunch of other guys rape her & let her live in filth & be taken in the first place? It just doesn't make any sense. Also it was mentioned that Graham Walker liked to mess with his kids, but we were never really given any real evidence of him just messing with Sam or Whitney in their daily lives. Idk, I was just very disappointed with this conclusion. The podcast was so good, but this was a huge letdown.

[Chris Drake-Killen · Rating 1 out of 5]

what in the sam hell

[Ruthie B · Rating 4 out of 5]

A perfect conclusion to a fantastic story. 10/10 would recommend!

[Miharu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Peak. Wish there was an epilogue though.

[Alicja Cienkowska · Rating 2 out of 5]

Kyle and Kimber ended up together?! 🤢

[hunter · Rating 1 out of 5]

this just pissed me off

[Jacob · Rating 2 out of 5]

The original Borrasca is probably the best creepypasta that has ever been created. The excellent and thorough world building combined with its bleak McCarthy esque themes make it such a harrowing tale that does so much more than just spook you a little. Also I should mention now there will be spoilers for both stories. Borrasca V, is not that. In fact, its almost the opposite. Of course, this was written more out of fan service. Though not in the sexual connotation the word has today. It gives the story a satisfying ending that you would read more out of catharsis than anything. In the beginning, it feels like that. It opens on a reintroduction to a world and characters that were incredibly endearing(the characters more than the world), and it feels like a nice return. Then it gets to the climax, where Sam confronts his father.

The top review of the original Borrasca is one star. I'm not going to complain about that, but I do find it interesting that the reviewer thought the female characters were just vehicles for the male characters. I wouldn't say that applies to the original four parts, but that applies here. Sam confronts the sheriff right outside the place where decades of soul crushing human trafficking took place, and they just never address that. In fact, I think the only moment they do is when the Sheriff offers Sam a role in the human Trafficking. I also just feel like this ending ruins the point of the original. The fact that Sam and his two friends were barely strong enough to save one person was part of what made the story so impactful. It isn't happy. It's incredibly depressing in fact, but it's the reality of the situation. This story is about Sam and Kimber ending the human trafficking by killing the Sheriff. Sure, that's satisfying. If I were to go back and read the original Borrasca agin I would probably find a thousand times more satisfying. But it kind of defeats the themes of the original. Like humanity is awful, and the best we can do is remove ourself form that. But we can't end the evil and we'll know its always out there, unless you keep reading and get a hacker friend.

[Shree Balasubramaniyan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was actually pretty engaged for the first half or so, but it really did start to go downhill afterwards. The very minor issues I had with the original Borrasca parts I-IV suddenly became one of the most prominent aspects of this story. I thought that, despite not loving some of the dialogue in the original story, the rest of it made up for that. Here, however, it's just a constant repetition of Sam and Kimber arguing about the same thing every single chapter and insanely cartoonish villainy from every single antagonistic character.

The same series that focused on the deep-rooted evil of this town and the abuse that these women and girls face due to these people has the main bad guy say stuff like "I am a sultan. These are my governors and that is my harem" and "I'm an alpha, Sam." There are also some lines that Sam and Kimber say that really got annoying. I honestly thought that the characters in part I, who were 9-10 years old, spoke like they were a lot older than their age. Meanwhile, here, these 20-something characters all talk like edgy thirteen-year-olds for some reason?

For aspects I enjoyed, I liked that Sam was kind of a jerk (at least, at the beginning) because of all this anger he's been holding in for years, and I am also happy that his dynamic with Kimber never turned into anything romantic. The beginning in general was actually pretty good imo. I also didn't hate the fact that they were reunited with Kyle at the end, and if the story had kept the same tone and weight that the rest of the series did, I think this ending could've actually worked pretty well. Ultimately, I get that this was probably written to appease people who wanted a happy ending instead of the downer ending of part 4, but this was definitely not the way to go about it.

[Jeremy Evink · Rating 2 out of 5]

Damn… there is an exponential downward curve in terms of the quality of the story here. First couple paragraphs feel like “yeah okay interesting place to start this story”. Then the sinking feeling starts to creep in and you think to yourself “It’s the same author as the first parts so there’s obviously a reason for all of this”. Shortly after that though is where the story ramps off a cliff and crashes and burns. There are moments here and there, specifically the parts with the main character visiting his childhood home, that are fairly effective. However, any nuance, ambiguity, or subtly from the original story is thrown out the window by the end in an effort to insert some kind of happy/cathartic ending. The ending in the first story is meant to be unsatisfying. The fact that these kids go through the stuff that they do and then just have to live with virtually no support system after is the point. The question of “How do you live after something so tragic and horrific” is even answered in the sequel, so clearly the author knew how important the original ending was. There had to have been some type of pressure to make this sequel happen. I just can’t picture making this out of your own free will and choice.

Disappointing…

[LaLa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rating: 4/5

Why did I read this before the first Borrasca? Cuz I watched a video explaining the scariest short horror story Jay Bird ever read and my god I was crying like a little bitch at the end. Truly Borrasca is one of the scariest horror stories, well I have heard in my life before and I don't know am I ready to read Borrasca yet. I wanted some closure though knowing that the perpetrators got what they deserved (even though it doesn't seem to be the case in real life). I may go and read Borrasca sometime later but not now. Not when I have just cried over both the first and second story.

Aside from my fear towards reading the first story, Walker wrote such a disturbing horror story that even when I was watching the video, I was tricked into thinking it was about supernatural horrors only to have the ending given to me like a slap across my face and reading Borrasca V showed me how exceptional her writing is and the twists and ideas that rose to her head compiling the story. Overall I would still recommend Borrasca as a horror story and Borrasca V alongside for comfort after the first one but wow I am still reeling back from the horror story I have just witnessed.

[abi ȏ.̮ȏ · Rating 1 out of 5]

Soulless crowd appeasing fucking cringe fest cornball piece of shit go fuck yourself dumb ass characters bruh ranga stupid bitch Kimber and dumbass fucking junkie idiot Sam 10 chapters of mid followed by 10 chapters of the worst thing I’ve ever fucking read fuckass diabolical dialogue what the fuck is wrong with this cuck author should have been left at 4 parts wish I never read that cringe corny cum dump of an ending go fucking kill yourself this stupid mother fucker verbatim says I’m an alpha go fuck yourself you fucking cuck cornball piece of fucking shit they all live and are happy together in the end even fuckass supposed head crushed in permanent brain dead and disabled Kyle is back to being normal stupid fucking bullshit as if Sam survives a gunshot to the chest stranded in the mountains dumbass fucking plot armour this has ruined the whole series hope the bad reviews keeps the author up at night and she cries herself back to sleep every single night