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Off Season (Dead River, #1)

Jack Ketchum

Start date: August 1, 2024

Finish date: August 31, 2024

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Feb 22, 2025 Court Zierk rated it liked it · review of another edition

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I went into this book knowing I wouldn’t be making any material emotional investment. I knew it would be a balls-to-wall type of story that went for the gross out at every turn. I knew the characters would be thinly fabricated cardboard cutouts. I knew this would be about as deep as a paper cut from a wet napkin. I was right on every count. This was exactly what I expected it to be, and it very was effective for what it was.

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May 09, 2024 Cherise Isabella rated it it was amazing

Shelves: slasher-horror

"Every so often life reminded you of how grimy and carnal a creature man could be if he set himself to it."

I have had Off Season on my tbr for a long time now and I was super excited to get my hands on it this month. Unfortunately for me, I did not know they were two versions of this book out there. The depraved, gory and extremely bloody version, and then the more watered own version. At first, I started reading the more watered down and highly edited version, until a fellow lover of depravity ...more

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Aug 26, 2024 Georgia♡ rated it did not like it

A family of incestuous cannibals search the woods for prey and when they find Carla and her friends on a retreat in a secluded, rented cabin miles away from civilisation, they believe they’ve hit the jackpot.
This book was so ridiculously slow for the first 130 pages. After that, I can’t even give it any praise anyway because of how misogynistic and disgusting the author is. I actually almost dnf’ed this but it’s this month’s read for bookclub so I persevered. The author actually at one point wr ...more

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