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Paranormal Homicide: The Skinners Incident
When teenagers start disappearing in the British town of Runcorn, Officers Sarah White, Michael Carr and Homicide Detective John Prescott are assigned to the case. What begins as a simple Missing Persons Case soon spirals into a much darker tale full of genuine horror as an insidious presence haunts the northern town. Paranormal Homicide is a gruesome Crime Thriller with a supernatural twist. Intended for a mature audience, this book contains Gore, Sexual Themes and Strong Language. From the of author of The New Order of The Island of Hella - Joseph Roy Wright.
- GenresHorror
295 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 2, 2019
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For the author of works on Old English, Middle English, & High German, see Joseph Wright.
For the author of works on Old English, Middle English, & High German, see Joseph Wright.
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March 1, 2020
SWEET JEEZUZ.
Where do I even begin with how terrible this book is?
I'm going to apologise right now to the author, because I'm not gonna be softening the blows here.
I mean, this is one of those things that might be GOOD simply because it's SO BAD.
I can't deny how immense my amusement was reading god-awful paragraphs of violence and gore and nonsense (see notes and highlights for examples).
The plot is basically a bunch of people dying under mysterious (supernatural) circumstances. It was hard to see how everything was related at first, and it was all pretty damn messy. People disappearing then turning up dead, mutilated bodies being found, psychic visions ... the plot was messier than that guy who had been skinned in chunks. There's a poor snake that is considered a suspect briefly because one dude is found with claw marks inside his throat?! I mean, how ...?!! *sigh*
There's also this bizarre overuse of full names? Everyone is so formal and full names are used on a regular basis. Erin Cross is almost never referred to as Erin, or Kyle's mother, or even 'she'. And I STILL couldn't keep track of who everyone was. But, to be fair, I skimmed a LOT. It was necessary. Unlike half of this book's words.
We've got play-by-play of pretty much every scene, and it's boring details. A lot of superfluous stuff and endless sentences with poor grammar. The style jumps around a bit which would be okay if it was done cleverly or even just clean but instead it adds to the messiness of the overall story.
The supernatural element is intriguing because the villain is so bizarre, but the psychic visions and the 'she just had a hunch/feeling/knowing' etc were ridiculous and painful.
Then you've got your basic continuity errors (eg: 'a single tear rolled down her face' followed closely by, 'she wiped the tears from her eyes') and pointless repetition (eg: 'she closed her laptop shut' ... 'grabbed her closed laptop' ... 'with her laptop under her arm' all in the same paragraph) and paragraphs of meaningless drivel and it's basically crying out for an editor. I had to choose between laughing or crying over this mess.
There's a unique monster here, but the story itself needs a lot of work to be readable. Then again, maybe I'm just still bitter about that one time I wrote a story that started with, 'They called him the Cat Skinner ...' which basically went downhill from there and my English teacher only gave me a C for it. THAT WAS LITERARY GOLD GODDAMMIT AND THIS GUY TOTALLY STOLE MY IDEA.
But, hey. Judge for yourselves, friends.
Where do I even begin with how terrible this book is?
I'm going to apologise right now to the author, because I'm not gonna be softening the blows here.
I mean, this is one of those things that might be GOOD simply because it's SO BAD.
I can't deny how immense my amusement was reading god-awful paragraphs of violence and gore and nonsense (see notes and highlights for examples).
The plot is basically a bunch of people dying under mysterious (supernatural) circumstances. It was hard to see how everything was related at first, and it was all pretty damn messy. People disappearing then turning up dead, mutilated bodies being found, psychic visions ... the plot was messier than that guy who had been skinned in chunks. There's a poor snake that is considered a suspect briefly because one dude is found with claw marks inside his throat?! I mean, how ...?!! *sigh*
There's also this bizarre overuse of full names? Everyone is so formal and full names are used on a regular basis. Erin Cross is almost never referred to as Erin, or Kyle's mother, or even 'she'. And I STILL couldn't keep track of who everyone was. But, to be fair, I skimmed a LOT. It was necessary. Unlike half of this book's words.
We've got play-by-play of pretty much every scene, and it's boring details. A lot of superfluous stuff and endless sentences with poor grammar. The style jumps around a bit which would be okay if it was done cleverly or even just clean but instead it adds to the messiness of the overall story.
The supernatural element is intriguing because the villain is so bizarre, but the psychic visions and the 'she just had a hunch/feeling/knowing' etc were ridiculous and painful.
Then you've got your basic continuity errors (eg: 'a single tear rolled down her face' followed closely by, 'she wiped the tears from her eyes') and pointless repetition (eg: 'she closed her laptop shut' ... 'grabbed her closed laptop' ... 'with her laptop under her arm' all in the same paragraph) and paragraphs of meaningless drivel and it's basically crying out for an editor. I had to choose between laughing or crying over this mess.
There's a unique monster here, but the story itself needs a lot of work to be readable. Then again, maybe I'm just still bitter about that one time I wrote a story that started with, 'They called him the Cat Skinner ...' which basically went downhill from there and my English teacher only gave me a C for it. THAT WAS LITERARY GOLD GODDAMMIT AND THIS GUY TOTALLY STOLE MY IDEA.
But, hey. Judge for yourselves, friends.
March 4, 2020
This is by far the worst thing I have ever read. I started to highlight truly bad bits but I was highlighting more than i was leaving.
I read this knowing it would be bad, a friends review stated it in no uncertain terms. I would urge you too to see how far you can make it through. Maybe the publishers could offer a prize of you make it more than 10%?
I read this knowing it would be bad, a friends review stated it in no uncertain terms. I would urge you too to see how far you can make it through. Maybe the publishers could offer a prize of you make it more than 10%?
May 16, 2020
Paranormal Homicide is a really good read and for those people who are into the paranormal like me please give the book a read as I thoroughly enjoyed every chapter to the point where I couldn't put the book down for my eyes to rest, so intrigued to find out what happens next. Cant wait for you to produce another book.
May 8, 2021
I live in Runcorn myself so I saw this in my local little bookshop and had to buy. It’s set in the town itself and author from this town so quite interesting some locations are real places. Starts off normal but then you have to follow the story properly Sarah White being the main character. What is supposed to be a murder of normal sorts it’s much more and has paranormal occurrences so far from what I have read. The town itself has real life paranormal events such as Byron Street in Runcorn type that you’ll get goosebumps, our own Enfield haunting. This is worth a buy.
June 4, 2021
I rarely stop reading a book 10 chapters in and even more rarely leave a review but this book is absolutely abysmal.
The grammar, the sentence structure, the descriptions 'the coroners surgery room' - you mean the mortuary ....?
Honestly 1 star is more than generous. I'm just thankful I didn't pay for it.
The grammar, the sentence structure, the descriptions 'the coroners surgery room' - you mean the mortuary ....?
Honestly 1 star is more than generous. I'm just thankful I didn't pay for it.
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