Suicide Highway ghostwritten by Doug Wojtowicz

Suicide Highway–ghostwritten by Doug Wojtowicz–is a novel about terrorism. Abraham’s Dagger is a terrorist organization that will do anything to cover up their tracks…

Even if that means killing innocent women and children.

The book opens with a very surreal atmosphere. A young woman is caring for a child, the victim of a recent attack. It isn’t long before hell breaks lose and terrorists are attacking the camp. The woman who is seemingly are protagonist dies, leaving us in place of the man who strikes fear into the hearts of any who opposite him.

This man is Mack Bolan, the Executioner.

Bolan leads a small group of people in his fight against Abraham’s Dagger, but–as always–Bolan isn’t sure what he’s dealing with. Danger is always around the corner, and there’s nothing he can do but face it head on.

Suicide Highway is an action-packed read. The novel’s a page turner for sure, and while I myself am not a fan of action/war novels, I’ll read anything that Mr. Wojtowicz puts out. Suicide Highway is a book you’ll most definitely want to pick up, even if you’ve never read anything in the Mack Bolan universe.

Michael by Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc

Michael

Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc

Just a few moments ago, I finished a book…

That book was Michael.

Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc is the Mistress of the Macabre, and she earns that title well. Michael is her third book, and it is nothing like The Two or A Man of Two Worlds. You thought The Two was sadistic? Triple The Two and you’ve got Michael. You thought that A Man of Two Worlds had a great passion and story woven through each character? Triple that and Michael comes together even more.

Taylor Carrington is an average guy who goes to college. He’s on the local lacrosse team and he lives with a few assholes, nothing somebody through college doesn’t go through, right? Taylor spends his time in local cemeteries, talking to the long-dead inhabitants because he has nothing better to do.

But quite recently, a young man named Hanson Blakely died.

One night, while Taylor is visiting the cemetery, he meets a man at Hanson Blakely’s grave.

His name is Michael.

And he’s nothing that Taylor ever expected.

Andrea pulled off another great novel here. Michael is another one of her dark masterpieces. It’s page-turning, spell-binding, and everything else that could be described as fantastic.

Five stars, Andrea! Five stars for a truly dark work! It’s hard to pull off a freaky story in the day where almost everything has been done over twice, but you do it with such passion and magnificence that shines for itself.

Roses of Blood on Barbwire Vines by D.L Snell

Roses of Blood

D.L Snell

 

There’s not too many words that are able to describe Roses, but a few are: passionate, brilliant, and beautiful.Roses of Blood on Barbwire Vines is about vampires, zombies, and the humans stuck in the midst of the whole thing. Shade is the daughter of the recently-deceased vampire ruler Roman, who also makes a cameo in his No Amount of Lead companion guide. Shade and her general and her general, Frost, realize that their home is becoming dangerous to the torso livestock that they use to keep themselves alive.This is where they decide to leave. Frost tells of an island that will allow them to reign free, to hunt like they used to before the world became what it was.The only problem is they have to get past zombies…

They’re mutating.

Roses of Blood on Barbwire Vines is a book that is different from everything else it references to. The horrible cliché of zombies and that of vampires is different; with mutating zombies and the badass vampires that we all love and hold close to our hearts. The writing is as poetic as a flower could be. The style is beautifully haunting in a way that keeps you thinking about the book long after you have turned the final page. His characters are memorable, his ideas imaginative, and his writing the most poetic and unique style since I last read Poe.Roses of Blood on Barbwire Vines is a book that should not be missing from your bookshelf.

The Cage by Jason Brannon

The Cage

Jason Brannon

 

Jason Brannon’s The Cage is a novel of many different things. It’s a novel of how being on the other side of the law can get you into trouble; a novel about how a family can be going through a difficult time; and it’s a novel about pure horror.

The Cage doesn’t take too long to hook you. Within the first few pages you’re wanting to read more, especially when you’re wondering what Captain Jack Omaha has for his clients to ‘hunt.’ Little do they know that Jack Omaha isn’t all he is to be.

But, Jason has a way of switching so easily–so smoothly–into a different setting that it makes you upset that you’re leaving your favorite part, which is why you continue reading. The action is well done, the suspense is non-stop, and the ending leaves you wanting more of the story.

Season of Slaughter ghostwritten by Doug Wojtowicz

Season of Slaughter

Ghostwritten by Doug Wojtowicz

 

Season of Slaughter may not be considered a horror novel to many, but an action novel with big guns and fights and all that kind of stuff that action novels are famous for, but to me I see a real horror in the book. Season of Slaughter deals with terrorism at its highest level, and when I mean highest level, you’re talking about the deaths of hundreds of innocents.

It all starts out when two men known as Dark and Adonis attack and airport. Two men–only these two men–kill thousands, one slaughtering people on the main floor of the airport while the other is blowing up planes. When Stony Farm–an elite military force–is called in to try  to stop them, one of the men ends up seriously injured and in the hospital.

Mack Bolan is pissed.

Mack Bolan is the main character of the novel, and he will stop at nothing to avenge the friend that was put in the hospital and the hundreds of people that were killed in one single night. He has every reason to take down this terrorist faction, and he will spare no mercy to anyone who gets in his way.

Doug Wojtowicz, the ghostwriter for this novel (and several others, mind you,) knows how to anti up the suspense just when he needs to. It’s a book that you won’t want to stop reading, and even if you’re not a big action fan, this one will make you change your mind about the genre. I wasn’t all that big for action, but he knows how to do it well. I highly recommend Season of Slaughter for anybody who wants a good horror/action read.

(Note: It shows the author as Don Pendleton, but it is ghostwritten by Doug Wojtowicz.) 

A Man of Two Worlds by Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc

A Man of Two Worlds

Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc

 

Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc’s A Man of Two Worlds is another beautiful book that the Mistress of Macabre has written. It’s a story about a man who’s becoming bankrupt during the production of a movie, bankrupt because of a pesky ghost. The main character, Robyne, meets a friend at a local gothic nightclub, and when the friend asks if he wants some help . . . The help isn’t exactly what he was looking for, especially when they end up being of the supernatural.

  

I am amazed with Andrea’s way to write a good story. Usually you find the supernatural books of today to be boring, dull, or with such a slow start that you can’t even get through them. But Andrea’s books are not like that, not at all. Andrea is very good at writing what she writes, which is chilling horror, beautiful romance and dramatic suspense. I don’t think there’s any other way to describe A Man of Two Worlds. It’s a book that you pick up and you don’t want to put down until you finish, it’s really that good.

  

For those of you who haven’t heard or read anything of Andrea’s, you need to go pick something up. A Man of Two Worlds is the Preditors and Editors award-winning novel, now do you want to go buy it? Even if it wasn’t an award winner, it still should be bought. It’s a beautiful, chilling story of what happens through curses and the supernatural, and if you don’t pick it up you’re cheating yourself out of a real good read.

Spook Rock by Pasquale Monroe

Spook Rock

Paquale Monroe

 

Spook Rock is a book that is both strange and mystifying at the same time. You’ll get the impression that you’re reading a monster book if you look at the front cover, and you won’t get much of an idea of the book from the back cover. (I personally think that what Pasquale did was a good marketing strategy, good on you Pat!) But this is a REALLY good book, to say the least.

Brad Banning is the main character in this book, and he’s just opened his film production company. He and his crew of film people decide to do a documentary on ‘Spook Rock,’ a local legend that is surrounded with scarce truths of the Salem Witchcraft Trials.

When they get settled in and the crew goes to a local place to get some food and drink, an old man starts talking to them about Spook Rock and about how the place is evil, and about how should they stay away from the place.

The man dies and the crew gets even more creeped out . . .

And then there’s a strange, mysterious woman that is following around the crew.

I really liked this book, but it is a lengthy read, but I like my books that way. It’s full of things that make different varieties of horror good: witches, zombies, Greek mythology; all of that good stuff is in this book. The book is beautifully written, and you’re cheating yourself out of a good read it you don’t pick this book up.

I can’t wait to read some more of Pasquale Monroe’s fiction.

Dying to Live by Kim Paffenroth

Dying to Live

Kim Paffenroth

 

There’s a secret part of Earth that’s hidden to most people, and that place is called Hell. The only problem is that Hell has come to Earth, but in the form of mindless killers that were once human.

Dying To live is not only an intricate novel, but it also makes the reader think. Paffenroth is very intelligent in the way he tells a story, especially how he uses the way people think and react to a situation to make the characters seem more real. He does this by creating Jonah Caine, and by telling his story in first-person.

First-person novels are usually more dramatic, but not a lot of people read them because they get confused with the way the writer is trying to interpret the way the character is acting. There’s a hidden part in the first-person genre that’s hard to crack open and spill open its contents, but Paffenroth does it well. He makes sure to keep the reader entertained while telling his version of the end of the world, and this way, he makes the read excellent.

 

So, are you Dying To Live?

Down the Road: On the Last Day by Bowie Ibarra

Down the Road: On the Last Day

Bowie Ibarra

 

The prequel to this book did itself good by creating a story that made itself stand out, but with the sequel, the book seems to jut out on the bookshelf with a bloody and violent cover, one that official says, ‘Do not be alarmed, everything is under control . . .’

How’s that for drawing somebody into the book? Ibarra makes sure that people read by introducing a lot of interesting characters, and from where George leaves off, we enter the tale of a whole mix of other characters that introduce the reader to a variety of different survivors. There’s women who are as tough as nails, men who are corrupted by the savage tenacity of a brutal world, and a young child who believes himself to be his favorite cartoon character when things get bad. Ibarra is able to tell a good story, just like he did in the first book, he shows us how tough it would be to survive in such a world. Zombies are constantly lurking, and with FEMA still on the loose as they try to put the survivors in contained, dangerous encampments–which are meant to protect them–the world is even a more dangerous place than it had been before.

Down the Road: On the Last Day is violent, bloody, erotic and sexy with a whole lot of trouble mixed into it. Read the book, because as we all know, They’re coming to get you. 

Down the Road by Bowie Ibarra

Down the Road

Bowie Ibarra

 

Down the Road tells of a tale of a man named George, and his trip down the road, hence the title. The book shows how a single man can survive in a world that is infested with the dangerous, living dead, which will do anything to devour him and any other living survivor. George makes his way through Texas while trying to find a place to live, and along the way, he runs into several things that can endanger him; FEMA, other survivors, love, and most importantly, the undead that walk the roads.

Ibarra shows us how an original tale can be done, and he shows us how good a literary mind can weave a tale of brilliance. Zombie tales can be mindless, or they can be well done, and Ibarra does just that. He shows us how a tale of survivor can be both beautiful and horrific at the same time. He creates a cast of characters that he uses to both drive the story and to show the way of several different people, and he does it in a well done manner. There is, and I quote, nothing wrong with this book, and I don’t think there could be anything that could ever be wrong. He wrote this in such a powerful way that it leaves an imprint in your mind, and makes it one of the tales of the zombie apocalypse that sticks in your head.

Violent, beautiful, and at the same time, emotional, Down the Road is a tale that needs to be read.