Ken Brosky

The intriguing cover for What Doesn’t Kill You by Ken Brosky caught my eye and I had to check further. I am glad I did, because I love creature features and stories that put characters to the test…and they will be. Not all will survive and I love that too. (evil grin)

Emma rolls into town, bringing with her a gift that will change the town forever. It invades the town slowly, and has a sweetness to those who claim its gift. Don’t we all know that nothing comes without a cost, and no on knows what the cost will be.

Valerie and Danny are the stars, but they are not alone. Some of the most surprising characters are those staying at the halfway house, seeking help for their addictions.

In a small town, there are no secrets, and Seven Sisters is in dire need of anything that can help the people, since Highway 55 became the Old Highway 55. How many towns have died because progress has passed them by? Why do they stay, when there is no future? What would be the lure that would compel people to move on? Does Emma know?

For Seven Sisters to survive, residents will be put to the test, needing the courage to fight for what is their lives. They will need to work together. They will need to draw from deep inside and find the strength to overcome their fear.

What Doesn’t Kill You by Ken Brosky was not exactly what I thought it would be, but the more involved I became, the more the characters drew me in, the more the tension built. The pacing and action allowed the suspense to build and I did not see the end coming. I do appreciate an author that can make me say, “Well, I sure didn’t see that coming.”

I felt the rating jumping between a three and a four. Whenever that happens, a four it is.

I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of What Doesn’t Kill You by Ken Brosky.

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I received an e-Galley ARC of The Beyond, authored by Ken Brosky, from publisher Timber Ghost Press for review consideration. Edits: Beverly Bernard. Cover art/design: Greg Chapman. Interior design: Firedrake Designs. What follows is my honest opinion, given freely.

Certain set ups for a story just guarantee I’d be, not on high alert, but paying attention if I was there myself. Space, water related activities for example are big ones for me. Caves and tunnels too, I’ve found, because creepy things can happen, but also they can collapse or you can get stuck, and that is terrifying. Sarah Lotz’s The White Road has a scene, a few actually, with a cave system that is not for the faint of heart, it adds a whole layer of horror to that novel. So I dove into this one ready to be bothered, happily so. Horror fans love to poke the bear. Imagine the bear being a pinata filled with reactions to what you are reading, you never know what will fall out, not really. It’s a fun game.

So I was thrown a bit by how casually Trump was mentioned in relation to the coal industry, in just a small tiny part of the beginning. And it struck me, that it was happening, the start of his presidency being part of a time stamp in fiction that we read, and that’s all it has to be, can be. It felt surreal, it felt a little wrong as well, and then I went to the next sentence and kept reading. That opening scene of walking down into the mine is a great hook for the whole novel, would be a great cinematic shot if ever made into a movie. By the time you start to worry about what’s going on it’s already too late, once you’ve noticed the red glow you’re not leaving the tunnel.

I think this has a story that you can enjoy as deeply as you want, you can read it through and be done, thinking that was a good twisty book. Or, you can start thinking of the doorway in the tunnels and the choices that went into putting us where we found ourselves in the novel. It wasn’t infinite universes, we had very specific path a and path b, and I find myself thinking on that often, if there is a reason, and how it was tied up in the tunnels. I think this is a book that many will enjoy, horror, thriller, small town horror and suspense would be accurate genres to place it in. Brosky has written a town to stay away from, things to fear and people to mourn. I look forward to reading his next work.… (plus d'informations)

This book is quite entertaining for young adults audience. It is very well written and has a heroine as main character. She is full of life and counts on a giant speaking rabbit for her sidekick. Their task is to destroy the Corrupted, characters that came to life from Grimm's Fairy Tales after brothers Grimm draw them using a special magic ink. They live among humankind and are becoming evil by the minute. In order to destroy them, our heroine (Alice) has only one tool, a magic fountain pen that she can use to draw into reality anything that she imagines. The book as a matter of fact is a collection of three episodes. First one is called "Prince Charming Must Die", second one is "Happily Never After" and third one is "Revenge of the Castle Cats". At the end of the book you find fourteen original Grimm's Fairy Tales. It took me around fourteen hours to read the whole book.

I bought this book from amazon.com and opinion expressed here is my own.
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