Author: Dylan J Morgan
Category: Horror
My Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Review:
Dylan Morgan is fast becoming one of my favourite authors. Once again I was instantly captivated by the descriptive writing and fully developed characters. The opening scene of a wife murdering her husband, chopping him up and serving him up for dinner certainly hooked me in.
The brutal and graphic murders that haunt the small town of Vacant are sinister and menacing, but so too are the townsfolk and half of the police force.
I was split into two camps when reading Flesh. Half of me felt compassion towards the drunk Sheriff Andrew Keller and his deputy Matthew, and then the other half of me wanted to scream and swear at them for letting deputies Manning and Brady get away with their drug induced behaviour. I was rooting for the Sheriff the whole time and wanted him to stand up for himself more against the corrupt Mayor and the freaky pastor.
As with any good horror story you expect a bit of blood and gore and Flesh delivers this in Dylan’s uniquely descriptive way. What I love about the author’s style is how he delivers the gore in short, sharp bursts as he concentrates primarily on the characters and their story.
The book is told from the various characters point of view which gives you a better insight into the inner workings of their mind – not always pleasant in some cases.
The ‘big bad’ remains elusive until the end portion of the book leaving a trail of terror as you speed towards the finale, which was fabulous – I didn’t see that one coming!
A must read for horror fans. I couldn’t put it down, even when my cat jumped onto my lap at a crucial point and I nearly leapt out of my skin!
I reviewed this book as part of Rosie Amber’s Book Review Team #RBRT
Blurb:
It feeds. It grows. The small town of Vacant harbors a secret so terrifying that the local lawmen will do anything to keep it hidden—including murder. Something sinister stalks the surrounding woods, a horrifying creature thought to be only a mystical legend. It hunts at night, killing with ravenous voracity.
Deputies Carson Manning and Kyle Brady are the harvesters: they find the victims, tie them to the baiting post. Sheriff Andrew Keller and Deputy Matthew Nielsen are the cleaners: they dispose of the corpses. But when Vacant’s townsfolk take matters into their own hands, nothing can contain the slaughter.
The deadly entity isn’t the only menace Sheriff Keller has to face. He has his own dark secret, a past he tries to hide behind frequent alcohol binges. Now that past has come back to haunt him and will throw him headlong into a traumatic situation that could mean life or death for him and those he holds dear.
Shelley Wilson Author 
Great review, this author’s fan club is growing and he has a new book due out later in the year, in his SciFi/ dystopia range.
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Fabulous news! Ooh, maybe you could get a RBRT calendar printed, Dylan could be Mr December! 😉
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Ladies, I LOVE this idea!!!!!
Or it could be one reviewer and one of our favourite writers, for each month… something to think on!!!
Shelley, have you read The Dead Lands yet? If not, do!!! The sequel is the next book out 🙂
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Thank you so much for reading and reviewing, Flesh, Shelley. I’m so glad you enjoyed it. Haha, Mr December, that’s a great idea!
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Thanks for commenting, Terry. If Shelley is interested she’ll have an ideal opportunity to read The Dead Lands in the coming weeks. I’ll be contacting you in about a week, too, with a special request.
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