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Blackbow
Content Warnings: Rape, Domestic Abuse.
Author's note: This is my memoir wrapped in fiction. Bruce Knight is my self-insert. As a disabled author I fought to survive through the same suffering as him, growing up abused by a father figure for ten years and getting raped by a female... Ultimately I'm no superhero, but I wanted to beat my pain by turning it into this story. I hope you're able to enjoy it.
Now for the blurb:
Living is hard enough, but when you're trapped in a Holdfast – a 2090 era shelter - after a nuclear war, you can't expect much. The thing is… it isn't the devastation you have to fear, but a far worse threat: Survivors.
When societies collapse there's no more need for restraint. So, you, dear reader, can expect many horrendous scenes. Including, rape, familial abuse, torture, slavery and a remnant of old humanity: irony. Though what you imagine now may not reflect reality, because despite human arrogance, we won't be the only survivors…
Those adverse to graphic content: Brave this story, and you'll be rewarded with an intriguing, unfortunately possible, and truly horrid future. This book contains in uncensored detail the fate of a cursed boy from his youth onward in the post-apocalyptic hell that so many prophesized. Will the tortures of his inescapable reality break him?
Author's note: This is my memoir wrapped in fiction. Bruce Knight is my self-insert. As a disabled author I fought to survive through the same suffering as him, growing up abused by a father figure for ten years and getting raped by a female... Ultimately I'm no superhero, but I wanted to beat my pain by turning it into this story. I hope you're able to enjoy it.
Now for the blurb:
Living is hard enough, but when you're trapped in a Holdfast – a 2090 era shelter - after a nuclear war, you can't expect much. The thing is… it isn't the devastation you have to fear, but a far worse threat: Survivors.
When societies collapse there's no more need for restraint. So, you, dear reader, can expect many horrendous scenes. Including, rape, familial abuse, torture, slavery and a remnant of old humanity: irony. Though what you imagine now may not reflect reality, because despite human arrogance, we won't be the only survivors…
Those adverse to graphic content: Brave this story, and you'll be rewarded with an intriguing, unfortunately possible, and truly horrid future. This book contains in uncensored detail the fate of a cursed boy from his youth onward in the post-apocalyptic hell that so many prophesized. Will the tortures of his inescapable reality break him?
150 pages, Paperback
Published September 22, 2017
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January 28, 2018
This is a post-apocalyptic novel, which starts off with a cryogenically-frozen abusive rapist warrior knight Prime Minister of Canada. Yup, you read that right. The PM is inside a vault, Fallout-style, to survive the nuclear armageddon. You can tell it's Fallout-style because the author tells us that it's like the vaults in Fallout. Yes, it's a bit on the nose.
When the PM emerges from cryosleep, his thoughts turn straight away to rape, and so is conceived the hero of the story.
This is a grim, graphic and relentlessly angry novel, to the extent that the dialogue is ripe with swearing and frequently conducted IN ALL CAPS SO YOU REALLY KNOW THEY'RE ANGRY. I don't mind guts and gore in my stories, being a reader of splatterpunk at times, but this is just gratuitous.
The plot is underdeveloped and the hero implausibly capable yet routinely makes foolish decisions in this world of rundown settlements and menacing mutants. Throw in the occasional lurch in tenses and the whole thing becomes something of a trudge.
When the PM emerges from cryosleep, his thoughts turn straight away to rape, and so is conceived the hero of the story.
This is a grim, graphic and relentlessly angry novel, to the extent that the dialogue is ripe with swearing and frequently conducted IN ALL CAPS SO YOU REALLY KNOW THEY'RE ANGRY. I don't mind guts and gore in my stories, being a reader of splatterpunk at times, but this is just gratuitous.
The plot is underdeveloped and the hero implausibly capable yet routinely makes foolish decisions in this world of rundown settlements and menacing mutants. Throw in the occasional lurch in tenses and the whole thing becomes something of a trudge.
November 22, 2017
An absolutely brutal, grim, post-apocalyptic world creates Blackbow, from an unassuming Bruce. The story starts with some very dark things, setting up for the world Bruce grows up in. While I really enjoyed seeing Bruce at various stages in his life, it wasn’t until he meets Spirit and Reva that I really became attached to him, as I think that is where he comes into his own. In addition to Bruce, the secondary cast are all quite unique, some even add a bit of dark humor to lighten things. Monster and Savage are two of my favorites aside from Bruce and Spirit.
The pace is fast, the fights intense, and the losses as heartbreaking as they come. In this bleak futurist world, hope is in short supply. Can a ragtag group really stand up to the powerful Mot, who hold the human race as slaves for their amusement? In trying to do so, will they become monsters themselves? I recommend you read to find out.
The pace is fast, the fights intense, and the losses as heartbreaking as they come. In this bleak futurist world, hope is in short supply. Can a ragtag group really stand up to the powerful Mot, who hold the human race as slaves for their amusement? In trying to do so, will they become monsters themselves? I recommend you read to find out.
January 19, 2018
A thoroughly gripping tale!
A post-apocolyptic Earth torn apart by warring factions leads the Prime Minister Jonathan yo lead his wife and surviving high ranking officers and wife into an almost 1000 year sleep.
Waking up to a world almost unknown to them, Jonathan and his wife, as well as all buy 20 of the thousand that went into cryo-sleep with them must attempt to adapt to a changed planet where they are no longer the strongest or most intelligent.
Brutality, violence and subjugation of the inferior species rule the Earth now in the form of 'Mots' mutant beings.
Bruce, Jonathan's only son, is the beacon hope of winning back the world from those who would destroy the last bastions of free humanity.
Will Bruce be able to do what his father could not? Is this anti-hero up to task?
Highly recommended!
A post-apocolyptic Earth torn apart by warring factions leads the Prime Minister Jonathan yo lead his wife and surviving high ranking officers and wife into an almost 1000 year sleep.
Waking up to a world almost unknown to them, Jonathan and his wife, as well as all buy 20 of the thousand that went into cryo-sleep with them must attempt to adapt to a changed planet where they are no longer the strongest or most intelligent.
Brutality, violence and subjugation of the inferior species rule the Earth now in the form of 'Mots' mutant beings.
Bruce, Jonathan's only son, is the beacon hope of winning back the world from those who would destroy the last bastions of free humanity.
Will Bruce be able to do what his father could not? Is this anti-hero up to task?
Highly recommended!
August 2, 2018
Intriguing read
If I didn't know that this book is a pathway into the author's personal life, I would have enjoyed it more. Does the author represent himself as Bruce? In the end, I decided to untangle my brain and concentrate reading it as a fiction. Although it is an intriguing read, I'm positive that if the author wrote his memoirs so readers can understand what lies hidden in his past, it would be a great read. My advice to the author : go for it Greg. Face your demons. I did! Final note: I enjoyed the read.
If I didn't know that this book is a pathway into the author's personal life, I would have enjoyed it more. Does the author represent himself as Bruce? In the end, I decided to untangle my brain and concentrate reading it as a fiction. Although it is an intriguing read, I'm positive that if the author wrote his memoirs so readers can understand what lies hidden in his past, it would be a great read. My advice to the author : go for it Greg. Face your demons. I did! Final note: I enjoyed the read.
December 30, 2017
Fast paced post apocalyptic read with no shortage of action. I enjoyed the story line but it lacked some details outside of the fight scenes, which were really graphic and not for the ‘weak-stomached’.
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