After Tiff Hooper recognizes Josh Penham, the man who abducted her and kept her in his basement and abused her, she brings her three friends to Raynham for a night of well-deserved revenge on him.
Only things don't go according to plan.
It is never a good idea to leave a corpse in Raynham's Pleasant Street Cemetery. You run the very real risk of awakening what lies underground there. And that thing—Brainchew—is more horrible and more evil than anything the average mind conceives of even in its worst nightmares.
Brainchew is back! And this time the monster is extra-hungry. But there are plenty of delicious human brains about tonight, and Brainchew intends to eat them all before dawn.
Wol-vriey writes eXXXtreme horror fiction, and also some surrealist stuff.
To date, he has published over forty novels in both genres.
His horror novels include: EnterPAINment, LGBT, The Virgin, Marriage, Women, Nightmare Fuel 1 & 2, Haunted House XXX 1 & 2, and How To Succeed in Life.
On the surrealist side of things, he is the author of Vegan Zombie Apocalypse, Vegan Vampire Vaginas, Vagina Mundi, and the disturbing and unsettling Dr. Orgasm.
What's that smell? Why is the earth trembling? What's that dead body doing on Brian Chu's grave? There is blood seeping into the ground. This can only mean one thing: Brian Chu is really Brainchew, and the blood seeping into its grave is waking it up! Reanimated, the monstrosity fights its way out of its coffin and digs its way to the surface. This activity makes it ravenous, and it is immediately on the hunt for brains, blood and full bladders (hey, even monsters need to stay hydrated). But this story is not just about non-human savages. Heck, Brainchew can't reason. It doesn't understand its needs, and it has no conscience. It doesn't even have a sex. The real hellions here are human. We are introduced to a heady mix of manic characters, all on a rampage of "gimme gimme gimme!" What do they want? Vengeance, sex, internet porn, love and friendship. Melodrama, gore, deviancy and a touch of cannibalism ensue. Will Ambrose, our alcohol-sodden hero from the first book restore order? Who will survive the night? I will leave you with one clue. Leave your cell phone on. I smell a #3!
Many thanks to the author, who provided me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
I just love Brainchew! More adventures of Ambrose and Brainchew and more gore, sex, violence, and crazy fun. This was pretty much as good as the first. Hope there will be more ;)
Awesome summer read. Great revenge storyline, and an expanding reluctant hero character driven storyline, a two for one book. We are once again back in this little town of Raynham, Massachusetts. And how can you go wrong bringing Brainchew back for another round of the coolest monster around. I am telling you, this monster would be incredible on the big screen, it truly is pure horror awesomeness. This book is not for the faint of heart, but definitely for those who like extreme violence, extreme torture, violent sex, blood and gore. Characters are well written with complete backgrounds. The interaction between them is spot on. Even though the girls have a semi leader in their small group, they still feed off of each other's actions and emotions including the violent acts they commit. The interpersonal relationship between the sisters is very intense and somewhat sad. There are some great twists and turns in the story that you don't see coming. I hope to see a third book with Brainchew in it.
You know what you are getting into folks when you read a book by Wol-vriey. He does not disappoint in this sequel to Brainchew, you don't have to read book 1 to read book 2, but I would highly recommend it. They are great creature feature monster stories. Truly horrifying. Plus there are hidden easter eggs throughout both books and some of those point you to "Girls Are Not Smiling" another extreme horror story by this very cool author. Pick these other books up, you will not be disappointed. My reviews of these books can be found at Goodreads and Amazon.
Phew! That was one entertaining read! Seriously... I’m so glad to be introduced to Wol-vriey’s books. His books never fail to make me laugh at some point, and that is coming from someone who doesn’t read/watch comedy. Wol-vriey opened my eyes to a newly found liking that I never knew existed in me; dark humour. To call it that would also not be the entire truth, as some of the humour were light-hearted which I’m sure helps first time readers warm up to the darker side of the book.
I find myself increasingly growing on Brainchew. Sure, it probably kills and maims as many times as Crystal bags clients, but the silly things it did as a result of its low intelligence makes him endearing (am I the only one shipping Brainchew?). I still remember how in the first book, it rang Ambrose’s doorbell and stood glaring angrily up at him, its natural impulse to kill completely overwhelmed by its hatred of Ambrose, leaving it uncertain what to do next. And then in this book, finally managing to trick Ambrose only to be rendered completely confused with the noise emitting from the phone he just swallowed. Oh the writing was so naturally hilarious, it was perfect.
If Goodreads has a favourite book character column, I would definitely list Brainchew in it. I’m so happy that such books exist. Wol-vriey is such a hidden gem!
You know that you are about to engage in low-brow pulp horror when you've read the title. It's a good indicator about what's inside and certainly delivers on that promise. I hadn't read the previous Brainchew, however that didn't seem to be important.
The first third of the book sets up the four ladies of the story and how Brainchew is unleashed upon the town once more. This third of the book is fairly sordid and heterosexuals beware, this is certainly not for the prudish amongst you. Wol-vriey certainly isn't scared of taboo subjects. The gore is as you would expect, visceral and frequent and the author tries to create a few original aspects, some of which are interesting and entertaining.
The reason I've scored this down a bit is that the style is frequently interrupted by comments in brackets. It might work as an occasional and required addition to the narrative, however the exposition in this book is mostly unecessary and distracting. Secondly the vocabulary is not varied per charcacter. Some characters use language that is wholly unlikely given their backstory. These gripes aside, Brainchew 2 offers some purile entertainment - and that's what reading this style of horror is all about.
Brainchew is back! I was all excited to see that there was a 2nd book!
Tiff Hooper wants to get revenge on Josh Penham cause of him abducting and abusing her. Her and her friends Lisa, Monique, and Carmela make a plan to kidnap him and teach him a lesson. They go to the infamous Pleasant Street Cemetery where they commit their vengeance on Josh, but things take a turn for the worst.
There were a few twists and turns I definitely wasn't expecting. I still wonder how Brainchew eats all these brains, but he still isn't really very smart. :0) He is one monster you wouldn't want to mess with. He can smell you a mile away. I did find it intriguing how he can sense that someone has a disease such as Parkinson's disease in which effects the brain.
I was disappointed with the ending. Everything was great and suspenseful, but I feel that the ending could have had more to it. It seemed too quick.
Brainchew, it's not just a name, it's what he does. Not much else is known about him but this information is plenty. Fast paced and may I say, relentless. Although I'm a bit of a stickler for reading books in order, the first book does not need to be read to enjoy the hell out of this one. (Why miss out on some good story telling though if you can help it?)
(I received a free copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review)
What do you get when you combine a female vigilante death squad, hillbilly rapist/murderer siblings, an ass-kicking transsexual parolee, a reluctantly heroic alcoholic motel clerk, and a horrible ancient brain eating creature? No, it's not the new season of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, it's Brainchew 2: Out Of Their Heads, straight from the fertile and possibly somewhat pickled mind of Wol-vriey, an erudite gentleman (sporting a perfectly normal face and beatific expression on his GR author page) with a penchant for his own special brand of entertainingly insane SFF/horror.
Brainchew 2 is a full-tilt splatterfest of slaughterhouse gore, femme fatales, straight sex, basement torture dungeons, BDSM sex, impalement via laptop, gay sex, incest, gangbangs, monsters, three-way sex, policemen getting their faces eaten off, and good old-fashioned sibling rivalry. Oh yeah, did I mention there's also some sex?
This book reads like an X-rated Troma film on speed. Mr. Wol-vriey's writing style is part genius and part nuts and it's tough to tell which one has the upper hand most of the time. He delivers zealously detailed depictions of murder orgasms and butthole lubing, along with intermittent bodily fluids-splattered doses of horror and wacked-out dialogue, as Brainchew selects, stalks and snacks on its victims.
Dickens or Tolstoy this ain't, but then again those old fuddy duddies never provided the kind of nuanced insight into the joys of repeated consensual shemale gang sex in prison that Wol-vriey does, either, so different strokes for different folks and all that. Whenever you're feeling extra frisky and in the mood for the literary equivalent of a blood'n'boobs-filled midnight monster B-movie, Brainchew 2 ought to be lurking right up your alley, ready to munch on your medulla oblongata.