Raised by a Killer: Extreme Horror—The Complete Series

by Sea Caummisar

Raised by a Killer: The Complete Collection Books 1-10
The story of a daughter being raised by a single father, who happens to be a serial killer.
Experience the sights, smells, sounds, and experiences of Deicide's life.
With each book, Deicide will grow older, giving us an inside look at how her life has been affected due to her upbringing.
Warning: Extreme Horror; Graphic scenes that may disturb some readers.

All ten books of the series included for one low price with an easy to navigate table of contents

Book #1 Age 4
Book #2 Age 10
Book #3 Age 16
Book #4 Age 17
Book #5 Age 18
Book #6 Age 19
Book #7 Age 20
Book #8 Age 21
Book #9 Pops
Book #10 Age 22

Genres: Horror, Thriller, Fiction

758 pages, Paperback

Published February 10, 2025

About the author

Enter the dark mind of Sea Caummisar.
Sea Caummisar is a horror author specializing in extreme horror and splatterpunk. Titles include the Deadly Reality TV Series, Verdict Realty, Games and many more. When she is not writing, she is usually busy reading. If you want to keep up with what she is reading or writing you can follow her on Goodreads. She loves hearing from her readers on Facebook and Twitter.

Reviews

[Kat · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wtf. Started out good but then got super weird and boring and definitely not the ending I was hoping for.

[Bree · Rating 2 out of 5]

DNF - you had me until the cult 🥴

[Rachal Davis · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have been wanting to read this series and when The Complete Series was offered I took the opportunity, I was intimidated by the size of this book because I am usually a novella reader, but I was hooked from the beginning and intrigued by the storyline, it was interesting to see how the characters evolved throughout the series and how and why they made the choices they did.

[Arnetia Byrnes · Rating 2 out of 5]

It’s like a train crash….. you want to look away but you can’t. The longest book I’ve read in a long time. And honestly, it probably could have been cut in half. I feel like I’ve just been thrown in a blender and spun around for 2 days. It started strong, then just got more and more far fetched. The editor needs to be fired too. So many errors throughout. Im actually not entirely sure how I feel about this 750 page marathon. Tired. I’m tired. And underwhelmed. And grossed out.

[Kristen Pate · Rating 4 out of 5]

Woah. This book was twistedddd. It’s too much to rate each individual book so I’m giving it a 4 as a whole. Some books were better than others but overall it was very entertaining. Some parts were a tad repetitive but not enough to take away from the story. Definitely not everyone’s cup of tea, probably not most people’s cup of tea. Lots of triggers for those who need the warnings. I thought the characters were pretty well developed and liked that there was a book that included Pops’ background. I was not expecting the ending.

[ShantellyRose · Rating 1 out of 5]

I feel like this book started off with just as much descriptive horror as it could, and then fizzled out into nothing. The storyline was ridiculous and really went nowhere. Like a smut book that only has descriptions of sex and nothing else. Like that with horror. Meh.

[Jordan · Rating 3 out of 5]

These books kept my attention and then after the Cult I felt like this was more about shock factor than the storyline. It felt pointless to read after a while because it just felt unrealistic and boring. But yes it is really messed up.

[Michelle Parker · Rating 2 out of 5]

So disappointing. It started out awesome and I really thought it would continue down that path but then it went stupid. I cannot stand animal abuse (it’s my only trigger) and there was too much of it.

The cult aspect was so far fetched it wasn’t even book believable. I thought there would be so much more detail in what it was like to be raised by a serial killer but this book was just a bunch of nonsense about cults and cannibalism.

Boring and it’s friggen too long to have wasted that many hours

2⭐️⭐️ just for the beginning….

[Allison Hahl · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Read but give it time

When I first started the series I couldn't put the book down. At times I felt just going through the emotions trying to get through each book and other times I couldn't sleep until I got through the next book.

[Courtney Davis · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read up until the age of 18. The first books were great, although there were numerous spelling and other grammatical errors. I ignored those because I enjoyed the experience. Then D, aged and I hated her monologue. She sounded like a two year old even at age 18, despite being labeled as “smart”.
A lot of repetition, I stopped in the middle of book 4…I think. I gave it a few days to see if I could care enough to continue. I did not. I skimmed the rest of the way, while the story continued to dwindle into Wattpad territory. The ending was atrocious and I’m glad I did not dedicate anymore time to this nonsense.
I didn’t really think it was necessary for Sea Cucumber to write a VERY wordy explanation after each book.

[Jenna Nelson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved it. Read the whole thing in 3 days because I couldn't put it down! The end made me sad though. It was really good at giving you so much hope and then ripping it away. Did NOT end how I expected!

[Linda Tatum · Rating 1 out of 5]

Another disappointing performance. 0.5 if I was being honest. I couldn’t get into it

[Vicki Quagliani · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is for sure twisted and horrific, but I enjoyed the storylines and was invested how things would turn out for the characters.

[Sonja · Rating 5 out of 5]

The ever evolving story of Deicide's upbringing, life, and growth throughout was a rollercoaster of emotions. Her inner monologue read very similar to Go Ask Alice which I really enjoyed. I never knew what to expect emotionally from her own actions and the things that happened around and to her. The character development all around was wild. So many questions answered and I loved Pop's story from his POV as well. It's funny to say how sad and emotional I was at the end of it all, but I was. I built this relationship within the story and now it's done and over.

[Shannon Carlson · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you really need to feel like a good parent, this book will help you. It is definitely extreme horror and NOT for the faint of heart. The author is a wonderful writer and very descriptive. I gave it 3 stars because, while I respect the writer and how amazing of a writer she is, this book was too much for me. I have learned my limit. 😂 Every single traumatic thing that could happen in a book was wrapped up in this one! I need to go watch a Disney movie now.

[Kasey Perry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Trigger warning: everything. Like...all of them.

This was a disturbing read and parts were very hard to get through, but it was labeled "extreme horror," so it wasn't unexpected. You don't have to like everything that happens in the book. In fact, I would suggest NOT liking it, and feeling that discomfort, means the author did her job well.

I do have to say one thing, though. As the mother of a child who has Down syndrome, that scene really bothered me, but not in the way you might assume. Yes, the baby dying was horrible, but that wasn't an isolated scenario in this book. I was really bothered by the repeated use of the word "disease," and the assumption that Deicide's life would be ruined by that child. I don't think Deicide would have made a good mother to any child, and I think we saw that, but her lack of parenting skills and the child having Down syndrome are two different things. And Down syndrome isn't an illness, or a "disease." You can't catch it. He wasn't sick. The wording bothered me more than the death scene, if we are honest.

That aside, the story was gripping, and I think I loved and hated each character, depending on the book. Addicting read!

[calvery · Rating 2 out of 5]

Honestly I didn’t finish the last two parts of this book. I thought I could handle extreme horror but this was a bit too much for me. Took months to read because I kept having to stop to recollect my thoughts.

[Lisa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Extremely disturbing-inside a cannibal’s mind as she grows up and joins a cult. Written in an odd format with the story and the thoughts, this book makes you cringe. It’s about as horrific as it can get.

[M. Lindenberg · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thoroughly enjoyed every one of these twisted horror novellas. The fact that they are going to be presented in one full tome is awesome! Definitely will be adding this to my shelf!

[Susan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read over 50% of this book but did finish it because it just wasn’t for me. I’m not into extreme horror.

[Jocelyn Lucas · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was the longest book/series i have ever read. also the most gruesome. definitely not for the faint hearted. i felt for the main character, Deicide. she went through a lot. the way she was raised by her father was baffling. I felt like some of the book went by very very slow. the ending i didn’t quite expect? just felt rushed/ very ???? the last 20 or so pages. i’m not sure i quite wanted that to be the ending.
overall, it was an interesting read

[n · Rating 2 out of 5]

many trigger warnings. started out good but idk wdh happened.

[Brandie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Emotional Rollercoaster of sad, gross, horrified, mortified, just kill them already, and awe I'm kinda sad its over. Definitely not for everyone, but I was fully invested through all 10 books.

[Darling Library · Rating 5 out of 5]

It feels like a sin to give this book 5 stars.

I also feel like I've been put on some kind of "watch" list.

Every single time I thought it couldn't get worse, the next page proved me wrong. I wanted to gag, scream, cry, throw my kindle to the wall. But my god I feel like the story was executed wonderfully. Obviously, "Raised by a Killer", you go into it knowing things are going to be f*cked. The "Extreme Horror" tag tells you that it's going to be more f*cked than you originally thought. But everything makes sense in why Deicide makes the decisions that she does. Doesn't mean those decisions were right and I wanted to scream at her but they are learned decisions.

I understand the author's feelings about trigger warnings and her reason for not labeling any, but DAMN. A warning could have been nice.

[Hayley Surabian · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved every single one of these books! I was so glad to see that they are all together as one so I could read it all the way through. Ugh my heart couldn’t take Deicide’s ending! She deserved so much more and so much better. And as much as I hated him for most of the story, Pops started to grow on me. The ending could have gone so many different ways, but I think that the one the author chose seemed very fitting for these characters. I would LOVE for this series to continue with Ace! I can’t get enough of the story line!

[Lauren · Rating 2 out of 5]

This could have been so much better than it was. It's messed up don't get me wrong but so many things happened for really no reason.. I don't know, got bored by the end few books.

[Lindy Clough · Rating 2 out of 5]

Started really good but then just got repetitive and boring

[Tamara Maple · Rating 1 out of 5]

So this was recommended by a few people in my book group, stating it was "So disturbing!" and "I could not finish it, it was so sick!" and thought, hmmm this might be a series for me. I have no idea why I finished this series. From start to finish, these books were just an absolute mess and it just sucked. The ONLY good thing about this book was the FMC name and even then, it was a stretch.

Characters
So the book revolves around Deicide who is raised by her single father who, you guessed it, is a serial killer. The series starts with her at 4 years old and follows her as she grows up to 22. It seemed to make no difference what her age was. Deicide was an absolute idiot, immature and so. Heckin. Stupid. For someone who had been supposed to be smart and raised the way she was, she made ALL the wrong choices and was so naive, I just wanted to punch her in the face so many times. Her inner monologues consisted of nothing but contradicted whining that her ending was probably the best part of the book.
The rest of the characters were no better. None of them were consistent of their character and every character felt like they were in some soap opera and were extremely unbelievable. Her father ended up being a hypocritical soft family man, when earlier in the series he was this strict, alcoholic. It made no sense. None of the characters were likeable and frankly, it was a godsend when they killed a few of them off.

Plot
Wooo boy, where do I start. The premise of the plot started out interesting and the "extreme horror" if you can call it that was enough to take an interest but after the 3rd book, I got bored. The twists and turns were predictable and once they got to the cult aspect of the story, I was pretty much done. It was a train wreck, plot holes and inconsistencies as far as the eye can see. The gore and horror felt thrown in just to be a shock factor and was weirdly described that it kind of just felt comedic at some stages. By the end of the series, it even started to feel repetitive believe it or not. The ending was as expected and frankly, I felt like it was a good closure to it all.

Overall thoughts
A horrible series and not because of the horror content. The writing was just terrible. It felt like an angsty teen on Wattpad was trying to write the most disturbing thing they could think of, got a few followers and just rolled with it until they ended up with the mess that this series was. There were a lot of spelling and grammatic errors, which was disappointing considering the author stated that they had beta readers but clearly not a decent editor. The little notes from the author at the end of each book, felt like an excuse to try and explain their process on their process and it just added to the Wattpad feel of it. If I could give this book negative ratings I would and I will not be reading anything else by this author.

1 out of 5 stars

[killingmesoftly · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 ⭐

Major spoilers!!


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If I had read each story on its own instead of all ten together as one full book, I honestly would’ve rated them very differently. Some of the stories were strong and really pulled me in. Others made me cringe so bad.

The book started off so well. I was invested. I genuinely cared about Deicide. But after the cult storyline, the story just lost itself.

Deicide became UNBEARABLE.

Every other sentence was, “I’m an adult now,” “I can make my own decisions,” “I’m a big girl,” and then she would immediately make the worst possible brain-dead decision. And she blamed EVERYONE but herself. She was allergic to accountability.

Her blind loyalty to her Gramps/mother (her “real” parents) was also so weird to me. Like girl… your pops/half-brother grew up a serial killer. What makes you think you would’ve turned out any different if Gramps had raised you? She really used that as her go-to excuse for why her life was so messed up. It wouldn't have been any different if Gramps lived.

I didn’t even like Pops, but she was so annoying that I found myself rooting for him. (Yes. It was that bad.) And then the ninth book being in his POV did not help. Honestly, his story and Alec’s could’ve had their own series. Their father was seriously messed up, and I wish Pops would’ve opened up more about that to Deicide, especially since she was lowkey worshipping the idea of him being her “real” father in her head. She had no idea that man was sick. And honestly? Even if she had known… I don’t think it would’ve changed anything. She felt like a lost cause after the Lip storyline.

And Deicide referring to Bliss as “a stranger’s baby” was crazy. Especially considering she was fully ready to mother two baby boys she knew weren’t biologically hers. one of whom had Down syndrome, which would’ve been a lot for an 18/19-year-old single mother stripper to take on. But she couldn’t accept Bliss? She spoke about her so nonchalantly/unloving. I understand she was heavily addicted to alcohol in the last few books, but still… she was lacking that love from that early books. she didn’t feel like Deicide anymore.

I’m not going to lie — her death was predictable. And Pops’ too. He was never going to live without her. He couldn't always express it. But he really did love her. His character did a complete 360. Two different people from the first book/last.

And then Jules returning in the last book?

…...🙄

Killing everyone off in the final pages?

…...😐

Yeah... It just felt all over the place. I will say, I really did want to dnf this but everytime I closed it, I found myself wanting to know what happened next. Therefore, 3.5/5 ⭐.

[anjela waterman · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a read— I most definitely did not expect some of the developments that occurred throughout this story. I feel like I thought it couldn’t get any worse, and then it did… This book kept me hooked because I wanted to know what the heck was going to happen next! I read a lot of reviews before this as well as after, and I was surprised at the amount of people who said they couldn’t finish/couldn’t read this because they drew the line at animal abuse. It definitely was not fun to read, but I think it was necessary for the story and the characters. It showed the lack of empathy and the cruelness of certain characters, as well as helped explain how certain characters turned out the way they did or why they thought in certain ways/did certain things. I also find it easier to read topics like this than see it on a show/movie or something. I think it helps me remember it’s fiction being able to read words than actually see and hear things. But I do understand if people have triggers such as those in this book and cannot handle it, but I don’t have any triggers and this was very interesting to me. There were certain scenes in this book where I had to reread because I couldn’t believe what happened! Just make sure you read all the triggers before attempting to read in case there is something you can’t handle. I personally really liked this book and thought it was a great horror book. I haven’t read one like this in a while and was impressed with the detail and characters. I also did NOT expect the ending which was nice as well. I really liked that the book was written by ages, it gave the feel you were there watching Deicide (the main character) grow up. Overall, I recommend this book (series) if you enjoy horror!