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Birth of a Monster
There’s a monster on the loose. All across the Ohio River Valley women are going missing.
Jacob Hunter Goodman’s childhood is filled with trauma. When he reaches adulthood, God calls on Jacob and he answers with a fervor unlike anyone before him. Jacob is compelled to make strange religious sculptures but each piece has a sinister secret.
In Birth of a Monster, A.S. Coomer holds the mirror up to a sick culture of power and dominance worship and the kind of monsters it can create.
Jacob Hunter Goodman’s childhood is filled with trauma. When he reaches adulthood, God calls on Jacob and he answers with a fervor unlike anyone before him. Jacob is compelled to make strange religious sculptures but each piece has a sinister secret.
In Birth of a Monster, A.S. Coomer holds the mirror up to a sick culture of power and dominance worship and the kind of monsters it can create.
628 pages, Paperback
Published April 2, 2021
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A.S. Coomer
21 books68 followersA.S. Coomer is a writer, musician, artist, and friend of cats. Books include Memorabilia, Birth of a Monster, The Fetishists, Songs for Leaving, Shining the Light, Flirting with Disaster & Other Poems, Misdeeds, The Flock Unseen, The Devil's Gospel, & several others. www.ascoomer.com
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February 25, 2021
In some mythologies, evil is an elemental force, a cruel deity, or an ethereal spirit; within A.S. Coomer’s Birth of a Monster, evil is a condition, a sickness roiling just below the flesh. It only takes the right combination of nature and nurture to release it, to bring it to fruition.
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March 30, 2021
For Grindhouse Press this is a LONG book, over 600 pages! Is it their longest book? I think it might be. Since it’s Grindhouse Press you know it’s going to be bloody, gory and merciless. There are some horrible and disturbing things that happen within these pages and just a warning there is animal abuse here, too. I had to skip over those parts as much as I could. I have a hard time reading about any animals getting hurt.
The beginning of the story follows Jacob as he struggles with his life at home, the bullies at school and the awful desires he's beginning to feel. Jacob has grown up in a broken home filled with pain and trauma. His drug addict mother is a mess and her new boyfriend is a sadistic bastard that hates women and that beats Jacob’s mother whenever he feels she did something wrong. Which is all the time, and Jacob hates his mother for it. But Jacob has found other things to do to fill his days away from home. Things that no normal person would think of doing. Things that would make you run screaming. When Jacob hits adulthood he learned that God has a purpose for him and he will fulfill that purpose with relish. Creating strange sculptures filled with secrets. He started with the town’s animals then moved on to more difficult prey. Now as an adult he knows exactly what he needs to finish his sadistic art pieces.
This was a very well written book, but expect some sickening scenes that are hard to read about. This book comes out on Friday, April 2nd. If you like disturbing horror I can recommend this one, because of it's length is not all gory death though, there is a lot of character development which I really liked. If you don’t really like books with some extreme scenes you may want to try something else though.
I received an ARC of this eBook from the author in exchange for an honest review
The beginning of the story follows Jacob as he struggles with his life at home, the bullies at school and the awful desires he's beginning to feel. Jacob has grown up in a broken home filled with pain and trauma. His drug addict mother is a mess and her new boyfriend is a sadistic bastard that hates women and that beats Jacob’s mother whenever he feels she did something wrong. Which is all the time, and Jacob hates his mother for it. But Jacob has found other things to do to fill his days away from home. Things that no normal person would think of doing. Things that would make you run screaming. When Jacob hits adulthood he learned that God has a purpose for him and he will fulfill that purpose with relish. Creating strange sculptures filled with secrets. He started with the town’s animals then moved on to more difficult prey. Now as an adult he knows exactly what he needs to finish his sadistic art pieces.
This was a very well written book, but expect some sickening scenes that are hard to read about. This book comes out on Friday, April 2nd. If you like disturbing horror I can recommend this one, because of it's length is not all gory death though, there is a lot of character development which I really liked. If you don’t really like books with some extreme scenes you may want to try something else though.
I received an ARC of this eBook from the author in exchange for an honest review
April 22, 2021
Being that this title came from Grindhouse Press and A.S. Coomer combined, I knew there would not be any punches pulled. This was dark but never felt targeted to shock. This actually read more like the author took his time to develop the main character, as “out there” as he is, into someone believable. I’d say Coomer either did his research before writing or already held an interest in the birth and upbringing of several monsters throughout history. As busy as I am and with the book being 600 pages (a very long title for Grindhouse, which tells me they truly knew Coomer had delivered a solid effort) I still finished this pretty damn quickly. It’s a wild ride but without the twist turns, meaning it’s a more methodical track with a variety of terrors along the way. The only issue I had with this title was that a few points got repetitive, but it served a purpose to make the pain and the digression of the main character all the more real. 4.5 rounded up.
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