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Prey/Pray: Hunting Party - The Nurse
The difference between a man and a monster is that one is a dangerous creature capable of vile dark destruction, and the other is fiction.
Pulled from the pages of 'Prey/Pray: Origin of The Average Man', learn the truth behind how The Nurse came to be as she uncovers the depths that someone can be pushed, and what happens when given the choice of break or be broken.
Pulled from the pages of 'Prey/Pray: Origin of The Average Man', learn the truth behind how The Nurse came to be as she uncovers the depths that someone can be pushed, and what happens when given the choice of break or be broken.
68 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 30, 2020
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April 3, 2021
The Nurse, by Dicky Kitchen Jr. is book 2 in the Prey/Pray Hunting Party Series. The first is the author’s debut novel: Pray/Prey: The Origin of an Average Man. The Nurse is actually a novella that focuses just on the heart breaking story of the nurse, who is one of the characters in The Origin of an Average Man. You learn exactly who she is and how she came to be in the first book.
With more characters to go, I suspect each will have their own backstory in novella form. Then the stage will be set for further novels. I may be wrong, but I hope I’m not, as I think it is a unique way to develop and present all the characters to the reader, priming them for future novels.
It is hard to write about both books without creating spoilers. But this is a crime thriller series with serial killers, surprise twists and turns, and a microscope to the dark side. But both books also reveal moments of caring and empathy. I suggest reading the first book first! It’s a better way to go and is really meant to be read in order. But they could of course be read in reverse; it would then create some spoilers for the first.
I loved the quirkiness and surprise ending of The Origin of an Average Man and gave it 5 stars. But I think The Nurse is written even better than the first, which augers well for the series. The pace is wonderful, I think even more engaging than the first and I read the 70 pages in one sitting over an hour or so. I had to read it straight through. The Nurse endures a tremendous amount of abuse and suffering, but you care for her all the way through and I needed to know how it ended for her and how she connects back to The Average Man. I look forward to reading more in Dicky Kitchen’s unconventional series.
With more characters to go, I suspect each will have their own backstory in novella form. Then the stage will be set for further novels. I may be wrong, but I hope I’m not, as I think it is a unique way to develop and present all the characters to the reader, priming them for future novels.
It is hard to write about both books without creating spoilers. But this is a crime thriller series with serial killers, surprise twists and turns, and a microscope to the dark side. But both books also reveal moments of caring and empathy. I suggest reading the first book first! It’s a better way to go and is really meant to be read in order. But they could of course be read in reverse; it would then create some spoilers for the first.
I loved the quirkiness and surprise ending of The Origin of an Average Man and gave it 5 stars. But I think The Nurse is written even better than the first, which augers well for the series. The pace is wonderful, I think even more engaging than the first and I read the 70 pages in one sitting over an hour or so. I had to read it straight through. The Nurse endures a tremendous amount of abuse and suffering, but you care for her all the way through and I needed to know how it ended for her and how she connects back to The Average Man. I look forward to reading more in Dicky Kitchen’s unconventional series.
April 11, 2022
This is a story about how much you can push a person before it's enough. It's about what happens when you are given the choice of break or be broken. The premises for this novella were great and intruiged me but then the writer lost me. Don't get me wrong, the writing is really good, the pacing is also good, there are some vivid descriptions that really hit home but I was just missing something. I was missing the emotional part. You know that part when you loose yourself in a story. When describing an addict and the lengths they would go to get the high should be really emotional. When describing nonconsensual sex should make my stomach churn. It didn't though.
I couldn't really connect with the main character. It was difficult for me to feel for her even when what she was going through was awful and terrible. I couldn't understand why she stayed? She could have just walked away in the beginning. I needed the motive and I would have liked some things more explained.
I also had to remind myself that this is a novella and that it's not easy to weave in the emotional part or make the reader connect with the main character in a small number of pages.
Overall a good and quick read.
I couldn't really connect with the main character. It was difficult for me to feel for her even when what she was going through was awful and terrible. I couldn't understand why she stayed? She could have just walked away in the beginning. I needed the motive and I would have liked some things more explained.
I also had to remind myself that this is a novella and that it's not easy to weave in the emotional part or make the reader connect with the main character in a small number of pages.
Overall a good and quick read.
October 1, 2020
"But no one lived here now, they only existed."
This was set up very well and gave an intriguing look into one of my favorite characters from the original. I took note of a few quotes that stuck with me, another being: "The house was an empty vessel with the ghost of laughter and joy replaced by the hollow echoes of solitude in the better moments..." Passages like this really made it for me, as most of the narration is simple and sometimes guilty of telling vs. showing. Nothing I couldn't get past, and the story itself makes up for it, but it was disappointing at times when descriptions and such could have been taken further.
An overall good read, quick and interesting enough to finish in one sitting.
This was set up very well and gave an intriguing look into one of my favorite characters from the original. I took note of a few quotes that stuck with me, another being: "The house was an empty vessel with the ghost of laughter and joy replaced by the hollow echoes of solitude in the better moments..." Passages like this really made it for me, as most of the narration is simple and sometimes guilty of telling vs. showing. Nothing I couldn't get past, and the story itself makes up for it, but it was disappointing at times when descriptions and such could have been taken further.
An overall good read, quick and interesting enough to finish in one sitting.
October 9, 2020
The Nurse is a novella that accompanies Pray/Prey: The Origin of an Average Man by Dicky Kitchen Jnr. If anything I enjoyed the The Nurse more than the novel. Don't get my wrong, I enjoyed the main book (I gave it 4 stars) but I thought the pacing was off at the start of the book, it was just a bit too descriptive for me. That's not the case with The Nurse, the pacing is brilliant and as a consequence I felt the writing was much better in The Nurse. Occasionally I wasn't sure about the tense in The Nurse, there were a couple of parts that I thought should have been the past tense but were actually written in the present tense, but that didn't detract from the story and tbh I came to the conclusion that that's just the writer's style. Overall I thought it was a superb read, I read it all in one sitting in 40 minutes!
December 31, 2020
After reading Prey/Pray: The Origin of the Average Man, The Nurse is a wonderful insight into the "real" story. I will say no more since I'm great at spoiling books, but let me tell you, this novella will tug some heartstrings.
Looking forward to meeting the rest of the hunting party!
Looking forward to meeting the rest of the hunting party!
February 24, 2021
After reading Prey/Pray I needed more! In The Nurse, we get to see the Nurse’s sad tale of what happened before and after the Average Man came into her life. The author grabs your heart as his words wash over you and takes you on an emotional ride.
May 4, 2022
The Nurse novella is meant to be read after Prey/Pray - Origin of The Average Man as it is an exploration of a character we meet within the story. It was a fantastic alternative insight to how things played out in Prey/Pray. I started it the moment I finished Origin of The Average Man and I am extremely hopeful there will be more companion novellas to come because I still can't get enough
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