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SEETHINGS
(Originally Titled SEETHINGS)
Five victims are found murdered on the nights of great thunderstorms and no one is arrested for the crimes. Only Mitchell, a professional photographer holds the clue.
The truth will kill.
Five victims are found murdered on the nights of great thunderstorms and no one is arrested for the crimes. Only Mitchell, a professional photographer holds the clue.
The truth will kill.
278 pages, ebook
First published April 1, 2014
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Michael Forman
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Psychological, transgressional thrillers is my Genre and you can read more about that on my -website. Michael Forman
Psychological, transgressional thrillers is my Genre and you can read more about that on my -website. Michael Forman
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May 16, 2015
Author Michael Forman's debut novel 'Seethings' is an exceptional piece of creative writing. This story made me think deeply but the wild ravings of a psychopathic sexual deviant are not comfortable fare. Central to this story are the thought processes of a character I do not relate to - and hopefully I will never meet. As a female reader, his eloquent justifications of sexual domination and revenge, disturbed me deeply.
However this does not distract from this expertly crafted tale. Foreman's writing style is artful, with the protagonist Mitchell's warped thought processes masterfully exposed. The author has a powerful and vivid command of language and his word pictures are stark and disturbingly real.
'Seethings' ebbs and flows until it comes to a very unexpected climax. The novel contains frequent references to a thunderstorm metaphor and like the thunderstorm the story is rampant, violent and destructive. It will confront you and shock you, it will amaze, mesmerize and fascinate you and the end will disgust you that in real life baddies sometimes win.
'Seethings' is not an easy read - but I'm so glad I persevered - even when the content repulsed me.
Keep writing Michael Forman you have an amazing talent.
Linda J Bettenay
author of 'Secrets Mothers Keep' and 'Wishes For Starlight'
However this does not distract from this expertly crafted tale. Foreman's writing style is artful, with the protagonist Mitchell's warped thought processes masterfully exposed. The author has a powerful and vivid command of language and his word pictures are stark and disturbingly real.
'Seethings' ebbs and flows until it comes to a very unexpected climax. The novel contains frequent references to a thunderstorm metaphor and like the thunderstorm the story is rampant, violent and destructive. It will confront you and shock you, it will amaze, mesmerize and fascinate you and the end will disgust you that in real life baddies sometimes win.
'Seethings' is not an easy read - but I'm so glad I persevered - even when the content repulsed me.
Keep writing Michael Forman you have an amazing talent.
Linda J Bettenay
author of 'Secrets Mothers Keep' and 'Wishes For Starlight'
January 19, 2018
While this book starts out slow featuring an especially, unlikable drunken boor as the focus of the first chapter, and a couple of chapters following which did not seem to flow, leaving me confused, I persevered reading. I’m very glad that I did! The book became difficult to put down, and it was not until well into the book that we see how the boorish character from the first chapter fits into the story. By that time, I was unable to put the book down.
A significant side-plot of the protagonist’s steamy affair, entered into because of his unhappy, sexless marriage – one which looks good on the outside – with his wife talking about plans for pregnancy and children, a nice home – is anything but that inside the relationship. The husband and wife are in counseling with a Christian counselor who is not even touching on the actual problems with their relationship.
The protagonist kidnaps and terrorizes this counselor for wasting his time and money, while his wife is utterly enamored with him.
Thunderstorms play a key role in the plot of the story. The protagonist and his wife are visiting a couple of their friends, and a description of their home coming down around them. The protagonist gets everyone to safety – although he does not remember his heroic rescue – but merely the menacing presence in the home during the disaster. There are bodies discovered after these storms which have often been dead for some time, with most of the evidence of how they happened or where. Is there one serial killer on the loose, several, or are these murders unrelated? Chasing these thunderstorms for photography is a passion, plus a cover under which the protagonist can visit his lover.
Seethings vividly explores the depression, despair, and crazy-making of life in a sexless marriage. The wife keeps saying they are “trying” to make a baby, saying that this “trying to get pregnant” is “going well”, although there’s been “no luck” – probably because they’re not having sex. She says the “timing” is not right. The protagonist is quite misogynistic, but how his wife acts, how his lover acted regarding her husband and marriage, it is quite evident how he came to these opinions. Feminism is thought to be a very ugly thing, and why he thinks that way is unsurprising from how he was brought up and how he’s seen women act.
This was a very good book. I would certainly not recommend it for anyone under 18 because of its adult language, themes, and scenes.
Available as a Kindle Book downloadable from Amazon. Free with Amazon Unlimited.
A significant side-plot of the protagonist’s steamy affair, entered into because of his unhappy, sexless marriage – one which looks good on the outside – with his wife talking about plans for pregnancy and children, a nice home – is anything but that inside the relationship. The husband and wife are in counseling with a Christian counselor who is not even touching on the actual problems with their relationship.
The protagonist kidnaps and terrorizes this counselor for wasting his time and money, while his wife is utterly enamored with him.
Thunderstorms play a key role in the plot of the story. The protagonist and his wife are visiting a couple of their friends, and a description of their home coming down around them. The protagonist gets everyone to safety – although he does not remember his heroic rescue – but merely the menacing presence in the home during the disaster. There are bodies discovered after these storms which have often been dead for some time, with most of the evidence of how they happened or where. Is there one serial killer on the loose, several, or are these murders unrelated? Chasing these thunderstorms for photography is a passion, plus a cover under which the protagonist can visit his lover.
Seethings vividly explores the depression, despair, and crazy-making of life in a sexless marriage. The wife keeps saying they are “trying” to make a baby, saying that this “trying to get pregnant” is “going well”, although there’s been “no luck” – probably because they’re not having sex. She says the “timing” is not right. The protagonist is quite misogynistic, but how his wife acts, how his lover acted regarding her husband and marriage, it is quite evident how he came to these opinions. Feminism is thought to be a very ugly thing, and why he thinks that way is unsurprising from how he was brought up and how he’s seen women act.
This was a very good book. I would certainly not recommend it for anyone under 18 because of its adult language, themes, and scenes.
Available as a Kindle Book downloadable from Amazon. Free with Amazon Unlimited.
November 7, 2019
Loved it! Of course I did - LOL, Michael
November 6, 2019
Good book. 18+. A must read for those whole love psycho-thrillers.
A great twist at end. I didn't see it coming!
-M
A great twist at end. I didn't see it coming!
-M
December 28, 2023
WTF?? The author isn't supposed to review his own book just to help out his own rating. Certainly not TWICE. I don't know who that first reviewer is, but definitely a friend of the author's for sure.
I'm five pages in and considering not reading any more. As a woman of size, Maxine is really offensive to me. Most women aren't in single digit sizes anymore. The average American woman is a size fourteen, and a portrayal like that is an over-the-top stereotype, of course based on size. Low-hanging fruit and a very tired old trope. Let's not overlook the contrast with the Julie-Anne character, who of course is successful along with being thin.
Lastly, whoever edited this missed all the punctuation errors.
I don't know, I'm going to give this a few more pages, but so far I've got a pretty bad taste in my mouth, here.
I'm five pages in and considering not reading any more. As a woman of size, Maxine is really offensive to me. Most women aren't in single digit sizes anymore. The average American woman is a size fourteen, and a portrayal like that is an over-the-top stereotype, of course based on size. Low-hanging fruit and a very tired old trope. Let's not overlook the contrast with the Julie-Anne character, who of course is successful along with being thin.
Lastly, whoever edited this missed all the punctuation errors.
I don't know, I'm going to give this a few more pages, but so far I've got a pretty bad taste in my mouth, here.
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