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The heavyweight of hardcore horror returns with ten hard hitting new short stories and seven brutal epic poems exploring the darkest soul of humanity and the cruelty of life without pulling punches. Wrath James White turns his unflinching eye upon the gruesome, the violent, the tragic, and the erotic.
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3.5
cassie
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Nicky
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“Boy, where do I start?
First off, Todd Clark is a bad editor, to put it nicely.
An example of his skill: “Michael asked, addressing Michael. Micheal nodded.” Excuse me? Unfortunately, I did not note other examples and I should have. There are plenty of misspellings and errors like this one that shouldn’t go unnoticed when editing. This just shows how little care went into editing.
Second, the writing is… all right. It’s not great, a bit juvenile, the author is not a seasoned author, let’s put it like that.
His voice isn’t remarkable, but it’s OKAY. In the last story, though, the narrator said “I mean”, when they should’ve been “absent”. Idk the word, but that’s when the narrator is not a character from the story, neither a person known to the characters. And therefore possessive pronouns should be avoided at all costs.
Another thing, I liked how he TRIED to be inclusive, but fell into the stereotype traps all the same. A child sexually abused by a man turns out gay and gets off on hunting gay men, r*ping them before killing them. Seriouslyyyy 😬 From what I’ve seen from White’s actual person, that wasn’t the intention at all, but yes, sadly, it is a raging stereotype that gay people are “made” through childhood abuse.
Third, poetry is definitely not his forte. I’m all for the artistic liberty of poetry, but at the VERY least it should be feelings-inducing. These felt spat onto the pages with no rereading nor editing (repeating words doesn’t make it more effective, just mildly annoying), and just ideas thrown at your face.
Now, about the stories. I liked “99 cents” a lot, I thought it was a pretty cool idea and concept, I wanted to see more of that. Some others like “Beast mode”, “Horse” and “Blue & Red” were not bad, but not great either. The rest were just not for me.
When I read extreme horror, I don’t mean to read extreme sexual content, or basically bloody porn. That is NOT my type of read. I’m here for the body horror, the pure dread and fear. But, sadly, White’s writing isn’t about emotions at all, he needs to work a lot on that (or that’s just not what he’s into and that’s cool, but I need them emotions to feel for the characters!).
If you’re into sexual splatterpunk, I guess you’ll love this. But you should know what you’re getting into first: no emotions at all (when there are, they’re told with the actual word and not described. Ahem, SHOW, DON’T TELL), mostly predictable endings, very little structure and bad editing.
I’ll give White another chance with another book because some of his ideas were very interesting, it’s just overall waaaayyyyy too sexual for me. 🤷🏻♂️”saphi
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“3.5 - some of the stories and poems were excellent, gory but also inviting reflections. Others were just ok, and there were a couple that I didn’t like. Overall a really good collection!”
Markmallow
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About Wrath James White
WRATH JAMES WHITE is a former World Class Heavyweight Kickboxer, a professional Kickboxing and Mixed Martial Arts trainer, distance runner, performance artist, and former street brawler, who is now known for creating some of the most disturbing works of fiction in print.
Wrath is the author of such extreme horror classics as THE RESURRECTIONIST (now a major motion picture titled "Come Back To Me") SUCCULENT PREY, and it's sequel PREY DRIVE, YACCUB'S CURSE, 400 DAYS OF OPPRESSION, SACRIFICE, VORACIOUS, TO THE DEATH, THE REAPER, SKINZZ, EVERYONE DIES FAMOUS IN A SMALL TOWN, THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND SINS, HIS PAIN, POPULATION ZERO and many others. He is the co-author of TERATOLOGIST co-written with the king of extreme horror, Edward Lee, SOMETHING TERRIBLE co-written with his son Sultan Z. White, ORGY OF SOULS co-written with Maurice Broaddus, HERO and THE KILLINGS both co-written with J.F. Gonzalez, POISONING EROS co-written with Monica J. O'Rourke, and BOY’S NIGHT co-written with Matt Shaw among others.
Wrath lives and works in Austin, TX.
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