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Hell, Texas #3
Hell On Earth
Along the highways of west Texas, a group of displaced killers makes their way along thecountryside. Cole, a ruthless murderer who tortures and brutalizes anyone he comes across for hisown amusement. Livia, a wild girl who gets her kicks doing horrific things with people's body parts.Don’t let her looks fool you. You don’t want to pick up this hitchhiker. Maddie, a deranged little girl who had been raised by serial killers but now bouncingaround from foster home to foster home. Families who take her in tend to havepets come up missing. With their town no more, they stay on the move looking for their next prey, moving from HellTexas, to create Hell on Earth.
- GenresHorror
257 pages, Paperback
Published November 22, 2018
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February 11, 2019
My husband received a free copy of this book by the author after entering in and winning a contest. The contest involved having you (the enterer) become a character in the author’s book, albeit getting murdered. So, yeah. That was an interesting aspect to this story. For anyone curious, my husband’s name is Josh Levine.
Although I love a good scary/horror movie, this was the first time I’d read anything in the horror genre. I would say this story was like combing all the Saw and Hostel movies and multiplying it by ten. I had no idea of what I expected. In reality, there was a new book sitting on the table, I like to read, so I read it. There was no real thought process that went into this selection. It was disturbing!
I’d give the author credit for just how disturbing and twisted this story was.
The idea and how the characters interacted with each other was on par. I was interested to see how the different characters would meet up with each other. The author did a great job with that.
Reading through about the first quarter, I couldn’t help but notice the lack of (or very few) mistakes. I’m all about finding mistakes, and I’d been preparing myself to commend the author on that once I got to my review. Unfortunately, I don’t know if I jinxed myself or what because after that point, it went downhill very quickly. Even though I love looking for mistakes (editor here), if there are too many, they can be distracting, at least to me. That was the problem (reason for the 3 stars).
There were so many mistakes, some involved sentence repetition as though the author were given two sentences to choose from, but instead of choosing one, he used both. Also, I guess it could have been about the word count and needing a certain number? I don’t know. For example, “…he stood and walked up to the van.” Then about three sentences later, “Bucky walked up to the van and slid the door open.” OR Livia, Cole, and Maddie are in the hotel room. Maddie was looking in her bag. Livia thought about how she “wasn’t sure what she kept in there, or what was in there…” See the problem?
Other such mistakes I found involved missing punctuation (specifically periods and apostrophes), missing/incorrect words, inconsistencies, etc. For example, Bucky comments about how “…it wasn’t like people were already leaving Hell.” Given what was going on in the story, he was reminiscing about how he’d had to leave Hell because the gang had to separate, yet the quote above made no sense to me.
Question/Comments:
I had a hard time believing that Maddie was a killer (sociopath?) who killed her parents and then came across a serial killer couple who took her under their wing, only for them to get killed AND THEN, she meets another serial killer couple.
One big issue I had with this story was the lack of unconsciousness surrounding certain characters. No one was passing out after having endured horrific mutilations, blood loss, pain, shock, etc. For example, Josh had both arms and legs cut off with a saw, yet he was somehow still conscious when the killer left him outside the shack to die. How? Or when “the father” Cole skinned was wide awake crying/screaming, yet ended up walking outside with Cole, took a few steps on his own, crawled (missing all his skin from his waist down, minus feet) before collapsing. How?
The part of the story involving the “tongue” was disgusting, but I loved it!
Coles interaction with the minivan ladies while he was in the middle of the road… I loved him getting in after having killed the driver, looking over to the passenger and saying, “Hi.” That was funny!
There were some questionable positions used when Livia, Jester, and Royce were back at the station. First, Livia was sitting on a desk and then “slides to her knees…” (to perform oral). Now she obviously wasn’t on the desk kneeling because she would have been too high up to reach Royces’ boy. Then when he was lying down, Livia handcuffed Jester’s hand (one reaching for her) to Royce’s hand (grabbing her butt), yet they were somehow facing the opposite direction (even though they were both facing her) and are only handcuffed with one cuff, meaning they could have easily faced each other if they’d wanted. Yet they ended up falling all over each other.
There was a part when Cole had just made a sandwich and was eating it. He headed into the living room where the family was tied to chairs. He started beating the “skinned alive” father (prior to the skinning), and funnily enough, I was wondering what he’d done with his sandwich. One minute he was eating it, the next, there was no sign of it. Did he finish it? Did he drop it?
Bucky at the restaurant. So, he was able to smash the waitress’s face against the table and only the cook was brought into the story. Yet, there was a part that said “the remains of the other employees and patron..." So, several workers and a "patron” as in a single customer. But once everyone was dead, he ended up killing the waitress, the cook, the young male employee, a married couple, and an old woman. There was more than a single customer, besides him in the restaurant. Where were all those people when the cook was firing at Bucky? Not to mention the fact, it seems questionable that no other customers or anyone stopped by said restaurant at all that day (sounded like Bucky had been there the majority of the day, too).
Gus got deeply stabbed by Cole. Yet he only washed the wound, covered it with a “hand towel” and that was that. After washing it, there was no comment about pain even with all his moving around, pulling boards off a fence and whatnot. Did it magically heal overnight? And, why the next day does Jade have him drive when he’d been the one injured?
There seemed to be a lack of something in the scene when the couple was dragged behind the car. Cole got two chains out of the truck (even the car wasn’t his), these chains have hooks on the end which Maddie wrapped around the couple. Then there was no more information regarding the setup. There was no mention of the chains somehow being hooked to the inside of the car, yet they had to have been given Maddie wrapped the couple up, then they all got back into the car. Additionally, Maddie had this idea of dragging them behind the car prior to leaving the hotel, yet no one had even known the chains would be in the trunk. They just took the couple, drove out to nowhere, and all the supplies were in the trunk.
Why was Gus upset when Jade was beating on Bucky? That made no sense because he’d essentially done the same thing to the one woman left over in Hell, Texas.
In the end, the one cop was telling Jade about Maddie. He’d stated that her foster parents had been killed. Jade asked how considering Maddie was a runaway. There’d been no mention prior to that of her being a runaway though!
Although I love a good scary/horror movie, this was the first time I’d read anything in the horror genre. I would say this story was like combing all the Saw and Hostel movies and multiplying it by ten. I had no idea of what I expected. In reality, there was a new book sitting on the table, I like to read, so I read it. There was no real thought process that went into this selection. It was disturbing!
I’d give the author credit for just how disturbing and twisted this story was.
The idea and how the characters interacted with each other was on par. I was interested to see how the different characters would meet up with each other. The author did a great job with that.
Reading through about the first quarter, I couldn’t help but notice the lack of (or very few) mistakes. I’m all about finding mistakes, and I’d been preparing myself to commend the author on that once I got to my review. Unfortunately, I don’t know if I jinxed myself or what because after that point, it went downhill very quickly. Even though I love looking for mistakes (editor here), if there are too many, they can be distracting, at least to me. That was the problem (reason for the 3 stars).
There were so many mistakes, some involved sentence repetition as though the author were given two sentences to choose from, but instead of choosing one, he used both. Also, I guess it could have been about the word count and needing a certain number? I don’t know. For example, “…he stood and walked up to the van.” Then about three sentences later, “Bucky walked up to the van and slid the door open.” OR Livia, Cole, and Maddie are in the hotel room. Maddie was looking in her bag. Livia thought about how she “wasn’t sure what she kept in there, or what was in there…” See the problem?
Other such mistakes I found involved missing punctuation (specifically periods and apostrophes), missing/incorrect words, inconsistencies, etc. For example, Bucky comments about how “…it wasn’t like people were already leaving Hell.” Given what was going on in the story, he was reminiscing about how he’d had to leave Hell because the gang had to separate, yet the quote above made no sense to me.
Question/Comments:
I had a hard time believing that Maddie was a killer (sociopath?) who killed her parents and then came across a serial killer couple who took her under their wing, only for them to get killed AND THEN, she meets another serial killer couple.
One big issue I had with this story was the lack of unconsciousness surrounding certain characters. No one was passing out after having endured horrific mutilations, blood loss, pain, shock, etc. For example, Josh had both arms and legs cut off with a saw, yet he was somehow still conscious when the killer left him outside the shack to die. How? Or when “the father” Cole skinned was wide awake crying/screaming, yet ended up walking outside with Cole, took a few steps on his own, crawled (missing all his skin from his waist down, minus feet) before collapsing. How?
The part of the story involving the “tongue” was disgusting, but I loved it!
Coles interaction with the minivan ladies while he was in the middle of the road… I loved him getting in after having killed the driver, looking over to the passenger and saying, “Hi.” That was funny!
There were some questionable positions used when Livia, Jester, and Royce were back at the station. First, Livia was sitting on a desk and then “slides to her knees…” (to perform oral). Now she obviously wasn’t on the desk kneeling because she would have been too high up to reach Royces’ boy. Then when he was lying down, Livia handcuffed Jester’s hand (one reaching for her) to Royce’s hand (grabbing her butt), yet they were somehow facing the opposite direction (even though they were both facing her) and are only handcuffed with one cuff, meaning they could have easily faced each other if they’d wanted. Yet they ended up falling all over each other.
There was a part when Cole had just made a sandwich and was eating it. He headed into the living room where the family was tied to chairs. He started beating the “skinned alive” father (prior to the skinning), and funnily enough, I was wondering what he’d done with his sandwich. One minute he was eating it, the next, there was no sign of it. Did he finish it? Did he drop it?
Bucky at the restaurant. So, he was able to smash the waitress’s face against the table and only the cook was brought into the story. Yet, there was a part that said “the remains of the other employees and patron..." So, several workers and a "patron” as in a single customer. But once everyone was dead, he ended up killing the waitress, the cook, the young male employee, a married couple, and an old woman. There was more than a single customer, besides him in the restaurant. Where were all those people when the cook was firing at Bucky? Not to mention the fact, it seems questionable that no other customers or anyone stopped by said restaurant at all that day (sounded like Bucky had been there the majority of the day, too).
Gus got deeply stabbed by Cole. Yet he only washed the wound, covered it with a “hand towel” and that was that. After washing it, there was no comment about pain even with all his moving around, pulling boards off a fence and whatnot. Did it magically heal overnight? And, why the next day does Jade have him drive when he’d been the one injured?
There seemed to be a lack of something in the scene when the couple was dragged behind the car. Cole got two chains out of the truck (even the car wasn’t his), these chains have hooks on the end which Maddie wrapped around the couple. Then there was no more information regarding the setup. There was no mention of the chains somehow being hooked to the inside of the car, yet they had to have been given Maddie wrapped the couple up, then they all got back into the car. Additionally, Maddie had this idea of dragging them behind the car prior to leaving the hotel, yet no one had even known the chains would be in the trunk. They just took the couple, drove out to nowhere, and all the supplies were in the trunk.
Why was Gus upset when Jade was beating on Bucky? That made no sense because he’d essentially done the same thing to the one woman left over in Hell, Texas.
In the end, the one cop was telling Jade about Maddie. He’d stated that her foster parents had been killed. Jade asked how considering Maddie was a runaway. There’d been no mention prior to that of her being a runaway though!
December 9, 2018
A fine ending the an awesome trilogy.
Hell, Texas was one of the books that not only got me interested in Tim Miller but also made me a life long fan. Book 3 doesn't disappoint, brutal and fast it's a page turner! It's bittersweet this is the final entry in the Hell, Texas story however I'm left with hope the story will continue in one form or another. If you haven't read Tim Miller's works you should!
Hell, Texas was one of the books that not only got me interested in Tim Miller but also made me a life long fan. Book 3 doesn't disappoint, brutal and fast it's a page turner! It's bittersweet this is the final entry in the Hell, Texas story however I'm left with hope the story will continue in one form or another. If you haven't read Tim Miller's works you should!
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