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Hanover Block #3
Son of Hanover Block
A young boy collapses on a playground. Surgeons carve out a giant tumor and half of his brain. Soon after, the boy's father locks him in a secret prison for his own perverse amusement. Through physical and psychological torture, he plans to transform his son into a monster, but he creates something wholly unexpected.
A research psychiatrist is on the verge of publishing a strange and beautiful new book, a collection of artists' renderings of the hallucinations of the clinically insane. Her book threatens to expose a terrible truth, and this truth will not set her free.
A mysterious infestation, intensely personal and deadly, is decimating communities across the nation. All that stands in its path is a ruthless government agency which may prove to be more lethal than the otherworldly parasites it aims to destroy.
The son is rising…
A research psychiatrist is on the verge of publishing a strange and beautiful new book, a collection of artists' renderings of the hallucinations of the clinically insane. Her book threatens to expose a terrible truth, and this truth will not set her free.
A mysterious infestation, intensely personal and deadly, is decimating communities across the nation. All that stands in its path is a ruthless government agency which may prove to be more lethal than the otherworldly parasites it aims to destroy.
The son is rising…
- GenresHorror
253 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 27, 2020
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Gregor Xane
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April 5, 2020
A young boy falls down on the playground and is diagnosed with a brain tumor. That was probably the best day of his life, because it's all downhill from there.
The beginning of this, the third book in the series, was completely horrific and off the wall. Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, it got triply worse. I didn't know what was going on, but I trusted Gregor Xane to put it all together and he eventually did. Mostly.
The originality of this series cannot be impeached, I've never read anything like it. I thought a beginning so different from the first two books breathed some fresh air into this installment and that was appreciated. We also got to learn more about the overarching story and I think that's where the 4th book is going to tie everything up.
In the meantime, I cannot help myself from staring at these covers and asking myself WTF? What will the fourth one look like?
Highly recommended! You can get a copy here: https://amzn.to/3aOZLkA
*Thanks to Gregor Xane for the paperback in exchange for my feedback. This is it!*
The beginning of this, the third book in the series, was completely horrific and off the wall. Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, it got triply worse. I didn't know what was going on, but I trusted Gregor Xane to put it all together and he eventually did. Mostly.
The originality of this series cannot be impeached, I've never read anything like it. I thought a beginning so different from the first two books breathed some fresh air into this installment and that was appreciated. We also got to learn more about the overarching story and I think that's where the 4th book is going to tie everything up.
In the meantime, I cannot help myself from staring at these covers and asking myself WTF? What will the fourth one look like?
Highly recommended! You can get a copy here: https://amzn.to/3aOZLkA
*Thanks to Gregor Xane for the paperback in exchange for my feedback. This is it!*
March 26, 2020
Whoa... the first act of this book is some seriously wild stuff... It was a nice change of pace and I really thought the different angle of approach gave the series a fresh kind of feeling. With each book the weirdness increases and damn, I can't wait to read the finale!
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A young boy collapses on a playground. Surgeons carve out a giant tumor and half of his brain. Soon after, the boy's father locks him in a secret prison for his own perverse amusement. Through physical and psychological torture, he plans to transform his son into a monster, but he creates something wholly unexpected.
A research psychiatrist is on the verge of publishing a strange and beautiful new book, a collection of artists' renderings of the hallucinations of the clinically insane. Her book threatens to expose a terrible truth, and this truth will not set her free.
A mysterious infestation, intensely personal and deadly, is decimating communities across the nation. All that stands in its path is a ruthless government agency which may prove to be more lethal than the otherworldly parasites it aims to destroy.
The son is rising…
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Order the Kindle edition of Son of Hanover Block
Get caught up. Order the Kindle edition of both The Hanover Block (now only 99¢!) and Brides of Hanover Block
Order the paperback edition of Son of Hanover Block from:
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Description:
A young boy collapses on a playground. Surgeons carve out a giant tumor and half of his brain. Soon after, the boy's father locks him in a secret prison for his own perverse amusement. Through physical and psychological torture, he plans to transform his son into a monster, but he creates something wholly unexpected.
A research psychiatrist is on the verge of publishing a strange and beautiful new book, a collection of artists' renderings of the hallucinations of the clinically insane. Her book threatens to expose a terrible truth, and this truth will not set her free.
A mysterious infestation, intensely personal and deadly, is decimating communities across the nation. All that stands in its path is a ruthless government agency which may prove to be more lethal than the otherworldly parasites it aims to destroy.
The son is rising…
ORDER NOW!
Signed Paperback | Amazon | BAM!
June 2, 2020
I had zero clue what was going on here for a bit and then, in typical Xane fashion, it started to piece itself together and get rolling. And not just with Sons, but from the previous installments, as well.
I was 100% in…and then it was over.
Damn you, Gregor!
This whole series I have been going “fuuuuuck, man, this is awesome”. I don’t know how it works so well because it shouldn’t.
It should be a train wreck.
And it’s not.
There is a palpable sense of the shit that’s about to hit the fan to wrap this up. And it’s going to be messy.
And I can’t wait.
This has been epic so far and I need to ride this mother f@cker all the way.
Mounds of gyrating prison flesh, agents of the DTTF, gray bubble word slugs, half a Jimmy, stumping the scarred girl, daddy’s basement throne room, viscera haunted skin, driving the Sudzy Rugz, invisible stingrays and the overwhelming deliciousness of the five-finger roast.
Yep.
Xane.
Soild 4.5 Stars! Highly Recommended.
I ultimately gave this one 4 stars because unfortunately I can’t help but rate it compared to The Hanover Block which is one of my all-time favorite novellas. Ever. That’s some sh*t to live up to.
I was 100% in…and then it was over.
Damn you, Gregor!
This whole series I have been going “fuuuuuck, man, this is awesome”. I don’t know how it works so well because it shouldn’t.
It should be a train wreck.
And it’s not.
There is a palpable sense of the shit that’s about to hit the fan to wrap this up. And it’s going to be messy.
And I can’t wait.
This has been epic so far and I need to ride this mother f@cker all the way.
Mounds of gyrating prison flesh, agents of the DTTF, gray bubble word slugs, half a Jimmy, stumping the scarred girl, daddy’s basement throne room, viscera haunted skin, driving the Sudzy Rugz, invisible stingrays and the overwhelming deliciousness of the five-finger roast.
Yep.
Xane.
Soild 4.5 Stars! Highly Recommended.
I ultimately gave this one 4 stars because unfortunately I can’t help but rate it compared to The Hanover Block which is one of my all-time favorite novellas. Ever. That’s some sh*t to live up to.
March 24, 2020
So, I've been keeping up with Xane's Hanover series since he released the first book, The Hanover Block. Why did I get it? I honestly can't remember, but it was a weird ride. The second book, Brides of Hanover, was even weirder, with some weirder Clive Barker-esque sex/horror stuff thrown in, and we started to see some overarching plot coming out. This book, the third in the series, gets us back into the whole weird world of the Hanover Block and fleshes out the glimpses of the overarching plot that we caught in Brides. Without spoiling the book at all, I can say that we get to take a short little trip into the past to get the backstory on a familiar character *and* get to see the culmination of some things that started in Brides.
Do any questions get answered? Nope!
Do I want the fourth book to come out? Hell yes.
Here is a very small nitpick, though. ***This can possibly be considered a very light spoiler because it gives a hint about just what character we are getting backstory on so stop reading here if you want to go into Son of Hanover Block totally, 100% unaware.***
James is able to do a lot of things one handed that I wouldn't think would be *easily* possible. Simply tying knots and the like come to mind. Sure, a one-handed dude *can* tie a knot, but I imagine it would be a huge pain in the ass. In his section of the story, he does some stuff that seems like it would be either a huge pain in the ass with one hand or impossible, but nothing is ever really made of it and it comes off as if he were performing a very normal feat. I know, I know, this is a very small nitpick in my book about huge invisible flesh mounds and weird tentacle bushes, shoot me.
Do any questions get answered? Nope!
Do I want the fourth book to come out? Hell yes.
Here is a very small nitpick, though. ***This can possibly be considered a very light spoiler because it gives a hint about just what character we are getting backstory on so stop reading here if you want to go into Son of Hanover Block totally, 100% unaware.***
James is able to do a lot of things one handed that I wouldn't think would be *easily* possible. Simply tying knots and the like come to mind. Sure, a one-handed dude *can* tie a knot, but I imagine it would be a huge pain in the ass. In his section of the story, he does some stuff that seems like it would be either a huge pain in the ass with one hand or impossible, but nothing is ever really made of it and it comes off as if he were performing a very normal feat. I know, I know, this is a very small nitpick in my book about huge invisible flesh mounds and weird tentacle bushes, shoot me.
April 27, 2020
Weirdly inventive and disturbing in all the best ways.
Each volume of The Hanover Block series somehow manages to up the ante. I wasn't sure how the first two could be topped in both terms of creative weirdness and mind-twisting depravity, but Son of Hanover Block does exactly that and does it with style.
I won't go into any plot details, as the synopsis is all you need to know. Seeing the narrative threads coming together has me excited for the grand finale that's certain to come in book four.
These are books that need to be read in order so I don't recommend starting with this volume, as it's the third in the series. Simply buy them all, and find a comfortable seat in which to read them — seriously, you'll want to sit down before you start as once you do comfort will be in short supply.
Each volume of The Hanover Block series somehow manages to up the ante. I wasn't sure how the first two could be topped in both terms of creative weirdness and mind-twisting depravity, but Son of Hanover Block does exactly that and does it with style.
I won't go into any plot details, as the synopsis is all you need to know. Seeing the narrative threads coming together has me excited for the grand finale that's certain to come in book four.
These are books that need to be read in order so I don't recommend starting with this volume, as it's the third in the series. Simply buy them all, and find a comfortable seat in which to read them — seriously, you'll want to sit down before you start as once you do comfort will be in short supply.
June 7, 2020
Really love Gregor Xane's work. Son of Hannover Block is without doubt my favourite of the series.
In fact, so much so, after the final installment comes, I reckon there's a chance I would read them all back to back again.
But for me, this is the one that flowed the best. It's an absolute cracking read, and there's definitely more depth to it than the previous installments. Not that there was anything wrong with them, I must add.
But this one sets the bar. Just really great writing, and worth every single one of those five stars.
Brilliant.
In fact, so much so, after the final installment comes, I reckon there's a chance I would read them all back to back again.
But for me, this is the one that flowed the best. It's an absolute cracking read, and there's definitely more depth to it than the previous installments. Not that there was anything wrong with them, I must add.
But this one sets the bar. Just really great writing, and worth every single one of those five stars.
Brilliant.
April 23, 2020
Jesus Christ you guys
I'm always looking for horror books that truly get under my skin, and while I'll fanboy over Stephen King until the die, I have to admit Thinner is probably the only book from his library to accomplish that. Son of Hanover Block has one of the most gruesome, vile openings I've ever read and probably will ever read; the book starts with a horribly vivid depiction of a child coping with brain damage, and just when you think the imagery can't get even more demented, the story comes up with something even more fucked up.
I'd love to go real deep into all the nuances of this book, but it's still new and frankly I want to encourage more people to read it more than anything. While I enjoyed the previous two books plenty, I thought the character work left something to be desired--Brides had plenty of improvement in that regard, but in hindsight most of the girls didn't strongly stick out to me. When it comes to Son, however, I absolutely fell in love with James as a character. His life is an endless string of nightmares that would break most of us, and yet he never truly loses himself no matter how impossibly difficult things get.
My only sorta complaint? The opening storyline is the strongest part of the book, and that made me slightly disappointed that the rest of the book wasn't quite as terrifying. Of course it was probably for the best, but I couldn't help the devil on my shoulder demanding more twisted shit.
I'm always looking for horror books that truly get under my skin, and while I'll fanboy over Stephen King until the die, I have to admit Thinner is probably the only book from his library to accomplish that. Son of Hanover Block has one of the most gruesome, vile openings I've ever read and probably will ever read; the book starts with a horribly vivid depiction of a child coping with brain damage, and just when you think the imagery can't get even more demented, the story comes up with something even more fucked up.
I'd love to go real deep into all the nuances of this book, but it's still new and frankly I want to encourage more people to read it more than anything. While I enjoyed the previous two books plenty, I thought the character work left something to be desired--Brides had plenty of improvement in that regard, but in hindsight most of the girls didn't strongly stick out to me. When it comes to Son, however, I absolutely fell in love with James as a character. His life is an endless string of nightmares that would break most of us, and yet he never truly loses himself no matter how impossibly difficult things get.
My only sorta complaint? The opening storyline is the strongest part of the book, and that made me slightly disappointed that the rest of the book wasn't quite as terrifying. Of course it was probably for the best, but I couldn't help the devil on my shoulder demanding more twisted shit.
August 10, 2021
Four stars because I'm just so invested in this story line by now. But my least favorite in the series so far.
It was the ending--and I won't spoil it, I'll just say that what finally emerged from the womb in a spectacular blast of blood and gore (no, that's not a spoiler because, come on, what did you THINK the delivery would be like??) sounded too contrived to me, and that was a bit disappointing.
The first half also seemed a little, I dunno, pointless?? The violence and abuse really didn't go anywhere or amount to anything and felt just way too gratuitous. BUT we haven't heard the last of things yet so who knows. There may be a point to it after all. We'll see.
What I did like was the way this story dovetailed with the others. Everything was nicely woven together in a really surprising way. I thought I had a handle on what was going on and then things got shifted in a way. Nice.
It was the ending--and I won't spoil it, I'll just say that what finally emerged from the womb in a spectacular blast of blood and gore (no, that's not a spoiler because, come on, what did you THINK the delivery would be like??) sounded too contrived to me, and that was a bit disappointing.
The first half also seemed a little, I dunno, pointless?? The violence and abuse really didn't go anywhere or amount to anything and felt just way too gratuitous. BUT we haven't heard the last of things yet so who knows. There may be a point to it after all. We'll see.
What I did like was the way this story dovetailed with the others. Everything was nicely woven together in a really surprising way. I thought I had a handle on what was going on and then things got shifted in a way. Nice.
May 23, 2020
I have to be honest. I read this book for two reasons. First, it was written by Gregor Xane, and his books are always awesome in a creepy way. Second, I wanted to find out what happened in the Hanover Block series. I'm looking forward to continuing with Return to Hanover Block.
December 15, 2021
I think the last third of the book made it reading this installment worthwhile for me. The first was was just too violently sexually bizarre for my taste, but I didn't mind it. I'd definitely read the next book as I'm now invested in the story and I feel now there is some traction as to what is really going on.
August 6, 2025
This is probably the darkest book I've ever read. In less competent hands the events of the first part of the story may have seemed gratuitous or unnecessary but Xane keeps it tense and compelling. A superb continuation of one of the wildest stories ever written.
July 5, 2020
Another really weird novel. I love this series. I can't wait until book 4 comes out.
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