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My Sister And I

Sean-Paul Thomas (Goodreads Author)

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'From the author of 'The Old Man and The Princess' (Soon to be a major motion picture) - comes a new, dark and violent, gripping and twisted tale, of horrifying terror in the Scottish Highlands.'

MY SISTER AND I

(Strong language and Graphic violence and some Scots Dialect - Not for the faint of heart)

Two teenage sisters, both raised in solitude in the harsh Scottish Highlan 'From the author of 'The Old Man and The Princess' (Soon to be a major motion picture) - comes a new, dark and violent, gripping and twisted tale, of horrifying terror in the Scottish Highlands.'

MY SISTER AND I

(Strong language and Graphic violence and some Scots Dialect - Not for the faint of heart)

Two teenage sisters, both raised in solitude in the harsh Scottish Highland Wilderness by their strict, survivalist, tyrant father, begin to question his twisted and sinister ways after they find chilling evidence to suggest that their estranged mother might not have abandoned them at birth after all.

- What readers are saying about this truly disturbing novel -

'Truly delicious horror'

'Jeezo, I love a bit of dark depravity fiction, but this was absolutely merciless.'

'I was drawn to this book in the first sentence and could not put it down until the last sentence. It is heartbreaking and evil and sad with a little hopeful all at the same time.'

'Make no mistake, the novel is carried by the heart of the characters, through the sick and the depraved, to the shining little core of hope that is sisterhood.'

'The narrative here is what gets me the most. Written in first person, from the perspective of the gentler twin, it’s all thoughts and descriptions, with a lack of dialogue. This made the unfolding of the plot all the more terrifying'

'A road trip tale from hell.'

'Wow. This is dark and perhaps the darkest book so far from Sean-Paul Thomas. I love the way that whatever genre he writes he evokes the atmospheric feel of where it is set. I could feel the isolation and have to say I was impressed with this book.'

'There’s a particularly fast pace here, which was excellent. The girls are no sooner released from some form of ‘survival training’ nightmare before being plunged into their next woeful task. The appearances of the clearly mentally ill father are sporadic, frightful, and completely concerning. His beliefs, his upbringing, and his treatment of his daughters, all point towards something we hope we’ll never encounter in our own lifetimes.' ...more

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Sep 11, 2018 Dana Ilie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: advanced-readers-copy

*** ARC kindly provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.

Hmmmm I was sure that Sean would not disappoint me.

This is such a good book. This guy can write!!! The story is for adults, it's a little bit dark, but not over the top. I like the writing, the plot and the characters. The book is about family, how the education and environment can shape a human, but also the struggle to remain good in situations that you have no choice but hurt people....
In the end it seems that the evil o ...more

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Sep 27, 2018 Miriam Smith (A Mother’s Musings) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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"My Sister and I" written by established author Sean-Paul Thomas is a dark, gritty and twisted thriller set in the Scottish Highlands. The story focuses on thirteen year old twin sisters and their violent, psychotic and sadistic father who's obviously suffering from a severe mental health problem. One girl is desperate to gain approval from him whilst the other just wants to be free from him and live a normal life. They are constantly given survival challenges to complete in the unforgiving Scot "My Sister and I" written by established author Sean-Paul Thomas is a dark, gritty and twisted thriller set in the Scottish Highlands. The story focuses on thirteen year old twin sisters and their violent, psychotic and sadistic father who's obviously suffering from a severe mental health problem. One girl is desperate to gain approval from him whilst the other just wants to be free from him and live a normal life. They are constantly given survival challenges to complete in the unforgiving Scottish wilderness to prove their worth before the apocalypse he's convinced is soon coming. However the survival trials become more and more sadistic and as time goes on, could the final challenge be one too many for the sisters??
All of the narrative is written in the first person from one of the sister's point of view and with not much dialogue this does seems to make this dark story all the more sinister. What dialogue there is (mostly from the father) is very broad Scottish, so it does take a little while to understand but once you start to comprehend the dialect it's soon easy to follow.
This book had a really creepy feel to it even from the very first page and it had me turning each page with trepidation. Very dark, gritty, full of suspense with an element of horror, this tale is definitely not for the faint hearted and due to the content and amount of language not for young readers either. However, if this is your sort of reading genre then you will love it and enjoy this sick and twisted tale of sisterhood, survival and psychotic horror as much as I did.
I regularly visit the highlands of Scotland and can't imagine finding these two twisted sisters in one of the forests I walk in and because this atmospheric book has had such a profound effect on me, I'll be forever looking over my shoulder in the future!
Sean-Paul Thomas is a new author to me but I understand he has successfully written another eleven novels, one of which is soon to be a major movie too. I'd happily recommend "My Sister and I" and will certainly be looking for more by him again in the future.
I really enjoyed reading this book and at least now if I ever find myself stranded in a Scottish forest, I'll know how to survive.......

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Apr 13, 2020 Whispering Stories rated it it was amazing

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This book was so much darker than I expected and I loved it for it, however I would like to issue all manner of content warnings for this book: child abuse, sexual assault, murder, violence and general darkness. I don’t make those warnings lightly either, this book is horrific.

Now that you’ve been duly warned, I can say that this book is excellently written. It’s written in the first person from the perspective of a 13 year old girl who has been raised a Book Reviewed on www.whisperingstories.com

This book was so much darker than I expected and I loved it for it, however I would like to issue all manner of content warnings for this book: child abuse, sexual assault, murder, violence and general darkness. I don’t make those warnings lightly either, this book is horrific.

Now that you’ve been duly warned, I can say that this book is excellently written. It’s written in the first person from the perspective of a 13 year old girl who has been raised alongside her twin sister by her psychotic, doomsday prepping father. He’s taken the girls off the grid and is determined to prepare them to survive the end of the world, as his father taught him, through a strict regimen of abuse and neglect.

Seeing this from the perspective of the daughter is harrowing, she’s never known anything different but she feels that this isn’t right. Her sister is the only constant in her life that she isn’t afraid of and their bond is truly unique, though we only see it from the one side.

The author has a visceral writing style which left me feeling physically ill in places due to the gore (seriously, it was graphic and nasty!) and also the heightened emotions from the perspective of an abused child. It’s the strength of the girl’s personality that breaks through and makes the narrative bearable.

I found myself entranced by all of the characters, good and bad, they all play their roles to perfection and I found myself totally invested in their fates. The story is set in the very north of Scotland and the geography is used to the fullest extent to set the scene; coupled with the father’s Scots dialect, it gave the story a distinctly regional feel that I enjoyed.

I did feel like the very end of the book was a little rushed and wish that there had been either a little more to it or it had ended a chapter earlier, but the main conclusion was satisfying for all characters involved. If you’re a fan of dark thrillers with strong characters and horrific violence – this book is going to blow your socks off. ...more

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Sep 10, 2018 Bradley rated it it was amazing

Shelves: horror, 2018-shelf

I'm always willing to read a new Sean-Paul Thomas book because he always surprises me as to where the tale will go next. Or even which genre. Sometimes the books are light and sometimes they're pitch black.

This one is like the struggling bright lights of two barely-teen sisters under the insane yoke of an uber survivalist dad who pretty much puts them through all kinds of paces... that steadily get worse and worse.

At its core it's horror, but it's far from being on the lighter side of horror. It ...more

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Oct 28, 2018 Trish rated it liked it

There are horror stories and then there are horror stories. One type tells about monsters and things that go bump in the night and the other type shows us the dark pits of hell a human soul can reach. Most of the time, humans are the worst monsters.

Here, we follow twin sisters as they grow up with their abusive father. No sexual abuse but, as one of the girls correctly states, that doesn't really make it better. He's one of those that had his own father already drill the whole apocalypse schtick ...more

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Mar 12, 2019 Marie rated it liked it

Shelves: kindle-owned-read, 2019-read-books, horror-books, ha-a-z-2019-challenge, psychological-thriller

The author provided this book to me in exchange for an honest review.

My Sister and I is a psychological dark twisted tale of an abusive father who wants to toughen up his two young daughters. Both daughters are twins and one is almost as twisted as the father, but the other one is more timid. To give the twins a challenge beyond what young daughters normally experience, the father takes them out into the wilds of the Scottish Highlands and leaves them out there to fend for themselves.

What the t ...more

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Sep 17, 2018 Stjepan Cobets rated it it was amazing

Shelves: indie, drama, horror, thrillers

My rating 4.8

The book "My Sister And I" by Sean-Paul Thomas is a psychological thriller with a dramatic dark story. Throughout the book, we follow the thoughts of one of the twin sisters who tell us the story, about her and her sister's life, with their morbid father who came from the dark side of hell. Although the book is classified as horror, this is a hard thriller and very sad drama of two girls and their growing up in a totally insane world of a maniacal killer who is their father. But alt ...more

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Sep 19, 2018 Sara rated it really liked it

* I would like to thank the author for sending me this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book follows the story of two sisters and their insane and psychotic father (the sisters aren't exactly sunshines either). Well this was a dark story, which shocked me from time to time. Throughout the entire book I was really angry, mainly at the father for being such a horrible person (can he be called a person?), but also at the girls. We can really see how disturbing their relationship was and ...more

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Sep 09, 2018 Chesca (thecrownedpages) rated it liked it

Shelves: general-fiction, mental-illness, abuse, read-in-2018

Quick Review:

Sean-Paul Thomas's My Sister and I is a cruel tale with a broken heart at its center. It's going to drag you to the end like a victim and you'd be willing.

The reason I'm giving it only three stars is because I chug tales of horror and gore like water; it's just me looking for something that would surmount my ever-growing expectations for the genre. Nonetheless, I enjoyed this very much. (Or is 'mourned' a more appropriate word?) ...more

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Dec 21, 2019 lee_readsbooks rated it liked it

3.5
This story had me hooked by page two.
I've never read a Scottish set book before and I enjoyed the change in dialect.
This story follows twin sisters that grow up with their strict and abusive father who teaches the girls how to live off the land just as his father taught him.

The story is told from the POV of one of the twins and the reader is given little information about any of the characters so I found it hard to get emotionally invested in any of them.

The father has a dark heart, his bruta ...more

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Oct 10, 2019 Rissa rated it liked it

Shelves: nook

My sister and I 3.5⭐️
They are twins but they are nothing alike. Where one shows compassion the other is cruel. Where one shows misery the other thrives in joy. All their lives they have been different, but as they grow they begin to see how different they really are. Also how her sister protects her no matter the cost.

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Dec 19, 2019 WooWooSpooky❥ rated it really liked it

"I was an eleven-year-old girl and he was my father. He was my world. He was my pain, my torture, my teacher, my tormentor. He was the only thing that I knew."

Many, MANY thanks to the author for reaching out to me and sending me a free copy to read in exchange for an honest review. I'm glad he reached out to me so I could discover this violent, dreadful and impending doom gem of a book. As soon as I read what this book was about I put all my other books to the side to dive right in, and I st ...more

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Sep 12, 2018 William Bitner Jr. rated it it was amazing

Shelves: horror, dark-fiction, psycological

My Sister and I
By Sean-Paul Thomas

Genre - Horror/Psychological Thriller/Scottish
Pages - 211
Publication Info - Paul Thomas Publishing; 1 edition, August 25, 2018
Format - Digital
Rating - 📙📙📙📙📙

If you’re looking for a twisted tale that takes place in the Scottish Highlands, My Sister and I, by Sean-Paul Thomas is just the answer. This is one truly messed up and sick family drama. Twin sisters, one evil and one trying to not be evil, and a father who is nothing but pure unadulterated evil. I like psy ...more

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Jan 29, 2020 Sea Caummisar rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2020-reading-challenge

2020 reading challenge ( author I've never read before)
First of all, thanks to the author for a review copy.
Now onto the review.... This isn't my usual blood/ guts kinda story. It was brutal in other ways. Think child abuse, not really physical.
Okay, so a crazy dad raising twin girls is teaching them to be survivors. For the end of the world. Making them live of the land by themselves, stranding them hundreds of miles from home, and oh yeah some physical abuse. Both girls are traumatized by him. ...more

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Jan 19, 2020 Sarah rated it liked it

This is a very graphic novel, so some may find it hard to read. A father raising twin girls for the end of the world by way of camping and hunting skills and murder sets a dark tone for this Scottish located book. One seems to follow her dads teachings loyally while the narrating one is desperate to escape. Various tests for survival put them among people without their father's constant supervision. There are several violent altercations, some feel a little more torture porn than I prefer. Some ...more

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Sep 19, 2018 Dana-Adriana B. added it

Shelves: ebooks-en, goodreads, not-rated, dnf

ARC kindly provided by the author.
Sorry I can't finish this book, so I can't rate it. Too much violence for me, to much pleasure hurting innocent people (twisted family - a dad and two sisters, American cheap horror movie like). And the language .......wow! no, did not like it at all. Not for me. ...more

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Sep 15, 2020 Neil D'Silva rated it it was amazing

I picked up My Sister and I after I saw it recommended in a book group, and I am glad I did. The blurb was the initial draw for me, and the actual story delivered on that promise. The story is of two teenage twin sisters who have a very rigorous upbringing from their father. We see the story through the eyes of one of the sisters, the docile one, while the other is just as merciless and aggressive as her father. It was interesting how the author has not named any of the three major characters (t ...more

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May 07, 2019 Mcf1nder_sk rated it really liked it

For fans of psychological horror, this is definitely one of the most twisted books I've read in a while. Admittedly, some of the Scottish lingo was difficult to comprehend, but the tension throughout the book was almost palpable. The psychopathic father raising his young daughters to become killers struck home in a hard way, myself being the father to three daughters. Thomas' writing was raw and gritty, and the story grabbed me from the first page until the final sentence. ...more

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Sep 10, 2018 Kleio B'wti rated it it was amazing

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Title: My Sister and I
Author: Sean-Paul Thomas
Publisher: Paul Thomas Publishing
Date of publication: August 25, 2018
Number of Pages: 211
ASIN: B07GV1LQ88

We Love Quality Books reviews, My Sister and I written by author Sean-Paul Thomas.
My Sister and I, is a Crime, Thriller & Mystery. It is a Fiction/ Women’s Fiction published by Paul Thomas Publishing. Before we start reading the novel, there is a disclaimer that reads, ‘My Sister and I, is a work of fiction. Names, places and incidents represent ...more

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Oct 18, 2018 Alice rated it liked it

First of all, thanks to Sean-Paul Thomas for sending me a copy of his book in exchange for a honest review.
Also, you have to know English isn’t my first language, so feel free to correct me if I make some mistakes while writing this review.

Well, I can't say it wasn't an emotional rollercoaster.

I expected some kind of horror given the premises, but all those twists along the plot gave me the chills and they made me furious, anxious and uncomfortable - and it's all the father's fault.

It's a stor First of all, thanks to Sean-Paul Thomas for sending me a copy of his book in exchange for a honest review.
Also, you have to know English isn’t my first language, so feel free to correct me if I make some mistakes while writing this review.

Well, I can't say it wasn't an emotional rollercoaster.

I expected some kind of horror given the premises, but all those twists along the plot gave me the chills and they made me furious, anxious and uncomfortable - and it's all the father's fault.

It's a story about a family - about a father who is evil incarnated, about a sister who's likely to become the same since she obeys to him without an objection and about her twin who struggles to stay on the good side even when their father forces them to commit atrocius things.
Because that's his philosophy: to kill or to be killed. According to him, the apocalypse is around the corner and it's all about the survival of the fittest and he believes it's his duty to prepare his daughters for that day - and everything and everyone is a prey.

But is there a limit none of the sisters are willing to cross?

It's a story about how your own family can sometimes rob you of your innocence and your future.
I felt sad for these sisters, even if your relationship isn't exactly sane from time to time and I absolutely hated their father - I was trembling with rage on more than one occasion.
I was shocked and horrified before his violence, before these atrocious things he did that had no sense and that were absolutely out of the blue and an act of pure evil.
Also, animal cruelty made me sick to my stomach - so if you're faint of heart, I don't recommend it to you because this book is very graphic in its details.

The story is made creepier by the lack of dialogue - if you exclude the father's one-way conversations/rants about the apocalypse or the assumed failures of his own daughters.
And I admit I struggled a bit with the Scottish dialect - given that Italian is my mother tongue, I had to take time to adapt myself to the changes.

It's my second book by Sean-Paul and he wrote something that I won't easily forget. ...more

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Mar 13, 2019 M rated it really liked it

This review first published on Oh Just Books.

This is my first book by Sean-Paul Thomas and I was so intrigued by the first few pages, and I couldn't stop reading it. I later found out that any single book of his is not indicative of all his writing because he writes all sorts of genres and in all kinds of styles. That just makes me want to read more of his stuff!

This book is pure horror. Make no mistakes about it. And not the airy, breezy, casual kind either. This is hardcore stuff. The trigger ...more

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Dec 03, 2018 Mikki rated it really liked it

Thank you to Sean-Paul Thomas for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I have to say that horror is not my usual genre. That being said, I actually thoroughly enjoyed this book. I loved the dialect being in a lot of broad Scottish, spoken mostly by the father. The young twin daughters being raised by him, to be just like him. Cold and ruthless, yet able to handle and take care of themselves in the worst of circumstances. I was drawn to this book in the first sentence ...more

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Sep 20, 2018 Lisa-Jaine rated it really liked it

I received an ARC from the author in return for an honest review.

Wow. This is dark and perhaps the darkest book so far from Sean-Paul Thomas. I love the way that whatever genre he writes he evokes the atmospheric feel of where it is set. I could feel the isolation and have to say I was impressed with this book. Two twin sisters, one fighting against the evil of her father and the other trying everything to gain her father's approval. As the father goes off the rails more and more something has t ...more

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Oct 07, 2018 Ailyn rated it really liked it

I received this book for a fair review by the author. Judging by the cover, you know that this will be a great Halloween read. My sister and I features a twin, and by default her twin sister. They are rarely apart, being looked after by their father. Not a book with a lot of names, but it wasn't necessary.

My Sister and I are graphically violent and thought provoking to me. I admire the exploration between nature and nurture (what better way to show human behaviour in its most basic?). As the lo ...more

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Apr 28, 2019 Miss Claire mckenzie rated it it was amazing

Gory but brilliant

This is first book I’ve read by this author and was not disappointed. Although dark, gory and shocking....I was utterly hooked from the start.

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Mar 12, 2020 Maria Stallings rated it it was amazing

A Thriller/horror story will completely satisfy fans of the genre.
Set in Scotland - 2 twin young teen girls have an insanely abusive father. His methods of raising them include survival challenges that grown increasingly more horrific. Their past as well is shrouded in mystery and their home is secluded from the world so the father can do what he pleases to raise the young teens in the manner he wants. A perverted "father (always) knows best". The two sisters are devoted to one another. They hav ...more

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Oct 15, 2018 Faith Jones rated it it was amazing

I am giving this a top star rating because it is engaging, well-composed and an undeniably excellent example of its type; and that’s the criteria I use for scoring good books. This review will make it pretty clear though that I don’t like the genre and would be much happier if I hadn’t read it. If you enjoy unapologetic horror of physicality and the mind, this has my full recommendation. If not, run.

I had to question why I was reading this novel as firstly I’m a sci-fi reviewer and this is very I am giving this a top star rating because it is engaging, well-composed and an undeniably excellent example of its type; and that’s the criteria I use for scoring good books. This review will make it pretty clear though that I don’t like the genre and would be much happier if I hadn’t read it. If you enjoy unapologetic horror of physicality and the mind, this has my full recommendation. If not, run.

I had to question why I was reading this novel as firstly I’m a sci-fi reviewer and this is very firmly at the sickening dead centre of the horror category and secondly I’ve never been able to fully recover from my own experience of being trapped in a room and hurt. Well, I know the answer to part one is that Sean-Paul Thomas’s last book (The Old Man and the Princess) had a science fiction metaphor element and got a good review from me, so when the author asked if I was interested in reading his latest work I said “sure, why not?” It wasn’t more of the same. I don’t feel content or even emotionally stable after finishing this. It is shocking horror, gruesome and uncharismatic to the level where two of the characters have diverged so far that they have no place in the human race.

It also has these moments where things are calm and people are civilised, then the next intention is revealed and something drops in the pit of your stomach like the floor’s been taken out from under you. These are the lead character’s little tests. To avoid spoilers, the analogy would be that scene in the Luc Besson film Nikita where the suave guy appears holding a cocktail dress, takes his trainee agent to a restaurant on her birthday, orders the meal, hands her a gift-wrapped present, she opens it with her big, starry eyes full of romantic possibilities and he tells her it’s a gun and to shoot the customer sitting behind him. That’s a film in which people’s demises are simple and clean. In this book, everything’s a bludgeoning struggle of incomprehension.

If you were in fear for your life, highly vulnerable and a policeman arrived, you’d be so thankful, wouldn’t you? Well, this book doesn’t work like that. The emotional pit-falls and wrenches that this author sets up are palpable, the sure sign of the writer being an expert at what he does. The ideas come from a very dark place though, a heady mix of grim and imaginative that makes you queasy like a dollop of blood ice-cream. The suggestion that this behaviour is multi-generational is even more horrifying, an echo of the real historical person Sawney Bean and his shocking family nest of cannibals.

This is dark stuff, trying and succeeding at being real, gritty and twisted. I hope the author is able to step back from this and leave it in the realm of imaginary fiction because if anyone reads his book and is tempted to play any of it out (like they did with The Diceman, by Luke Reinhart) then society has a problem. It brings a pressure on the psyche, not fear as such but a questioning of how something this awful could ever exist in our world – but of course we know monsters (all the real monsters are human) are out there and do get away with their unholy activities for decades. The murderous human mind is a difficult opponent because it can cover up, deceive and hide in plain sight. I’m unsure if it’s true but I heard somewhere that psychopaths have either very low IQs or exceptionally high IQs, both thinking humans are just moving objects, the more intelligent examples only being caught when they secretly want to be caught. Lovely.

Sean-Paul Thomas is clearly an impressive writer and I can see he has what it takes to become mainstream famous. He can write a story that manipulates the emotions and genuinely upsets in a realistic way, where the reader knows a lot of it is genuinely, dirty finger nails, possible (if rare, thankfully). Perhaps it wouldn’t all happen at once or come from the same source and the police would be down on it like a ton of bricks, but fiction does allow events to be concentrated for sustained impact.

Setting this tale in Scotland and drawing upon the glorifying mythos of bone-skulled Glaswegian fighting men is another master-stroke because, again, it’s one place on Earth where the mutilating barbaric attitude would not be out of kilter. I’m not sure that nutters like this exist in Scotland now, but they certainly did in the last century. The huge lesson for me is, in future, I must check the synopsis before I accept any more books for review. The cover image should pretty quickly sort out the kind of people who will like this story versus the wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous wee beasties like me. I found the story unsettling, I was shocked at times and felt anxiety throughout. As imparting those emotions is the entire point of a horror novel, I can’t see anything incorrect to criticise in this, so have been cornered by my own stupid rulebook. ...more

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Nov 24, 2018 JK rated it really liked it

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Jeezo, I love a bit of dark depravity fiction, but this was absolutely merciless.

Imagine one of those mental guys you meet in the pub, the ones with the unsettling glint in their eye that tells you they would have absolutely no problem taking you outside and stabbing you for a laugh. Imagine that guy colder, lonelier, more sadistic, less human. Imagine that guy with two twin girls he’s training up to become just like him. You just wouldn’t want to, but Thomas will make you.

The narrative here is Jeezo, I love a bit of dark depravity fiction, but this was absolutely merciless.

Imagine one of those mental guys you meet in the pub, the ones with the unsettling glint in their eye that tells you they would have absolutely no problem taking you outside and stabbing you for a laugh. Imagine that guy colder, lonelier, more sadistic, less human. Imagine that guy with two twin girls he’s training up to become just like him. You just wouldn’t want to, but Thomas will make you.

The narrative here is what gets me the most. Written in first person, from the perspective of the gentler twin, it’s all thoughts and descriptions, with a lack of dialogue. This made the unfolding of the plot all the more terrifying; being unable to tell how the more violent sister was going to react next was utterly disquieting.

There’s a particularly fast pace here, which was excellent. The girls are no sooner released from some form of ‘survival training’ nightmare before being plunged into their next woeful task. The appearances of the clearly mentally ill father are sporadic, frightful, and completely concerning. His beliefs, his upbringing, and his treatment of his daughters, all point towards something we hope we’ll never encounter in our own lifetimes.

It says a lot about our parents, and the people they bring us up to be - that age old nature vs. nurture debate which is destined never to be solved. Thomas hints subtly that we are all products of our parents’ design, but that outside factors can intervene, and in each of us is a true sense of right and wrong, regardless of what we’ve been taught.

Thomas also forces us to consider the lengths we would go to to survive. He gives the girls impossible situations to escape from, and it’s with shame I admit I simply wouldn’t make it. Thank god my da is the type who will wash my car every weekend and tap me money, instead of sending me out into the wilderness to fend for myself.

My only criticism would be that I felt the finale was rounded up far too quickly, with some loose ends in there I wanted tied up (I won’t go into detail as that will mean spoilers). Or maybe I just wanted it to last longer.

You don’t get many horror novels set in the Scottish Highlands, and this one from Thomas was perfect. Thank you so much for allowing me to read this. ...more

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Jan 20, 2019 Lily Vagabond rated it liked it

I wish GR allowed a breakdown of star ratings. I would rate 4 stars based on how well the book ends, and some parts were more 3 stars for me.

Twin 13-year-old girls with a spooky connection, deal with a horrific childhood with an absolutely psychotic father, embark on a journey to scare the living crap out of everyone, then fight for their lives, each in their own way.

The book comes with a heavy warning, violence, strong language, etc, etc. I didn't find anything in the book more extreme than wha ...more

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Sean-Paul Thomas

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Scottish Author/Screenwriter.

Best Selling Kindle Author of 'The Old Man and The Princess' (Now optioned to be a major motion picture)

Sean is an author from Edinburgh in Scotland. He spent most of his childhood and teenage years on the move with his Scottish and Irish Catholic Parents (No, they weren't bank robbers ) growing up in the likes of Cyprus, Germany, Wales, and England, as an army brat.

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