Gory
This is the third book written by Aron Beauregard that I have read.
I am a die-hard horror fan, and I am already a fan of Extreme horror & Spllatterpunk but I didn't enjoy reading this book as much as I did reading Try The New Candy, or The Cuck by the same author.
At times it was a slog to read, repetitive in the gore, graphic description of violence, and prolonged descriptive, detailed ways that various characters were horrifically murdered.
I don't like the characters Hershel Hughes, Chaz & Winston, I'm glad Noah was killed, bacuse I hated his character, he reminded me of a family member that constantly judges, shames and criticises me just because I'm a horror fan and they hate horror films, they hate literally everything I like, am a fan of or it has personal significant meaning to me a an individual person.
Hershel Hughes is a disgusting, perverted, sadist and serial killer of undeage girls, I don't like his perverse, peadophilic intentions, sick, twisted and disturbing urges towards underage girls and that motives him to kidnap other people's children to kill them. His modus operandi is unsual, but he is still a sick, perverted sadist, peadophile and a serial killer. He has contradictory beliefs and opinions about how he perceives himself, that he "doesn't have to be a good person to be a good father" and as long as he doesn't kill his own children that he has violent, disturbing fantasies about murdering, then that somehow justifies killing other people's children.
Some very specific things that I don't like about this anthology of short stories are: the racist portrayal of the Japanese chef at the Tokyo Express restaurant that Jessie & Noah go to. It's a stereotypical, racist portrayal of a Japanese person to speak in broken English just because it's not their first language.
I don't like the character "Junkie Jim" and his disgusting and perverse intentions towards Jessie.
I don't like the wannabe serial killers Chaz & Winston that admire and idolize the Columbine murderers, and their pre-meditated plan to use a date-rape drug and assault female students because they both pathetic Incels, their disgusting maiming, mutilation, torture and murder of helpless animals was really disgusting to read about and it made me feel physically sick while reading it. Both of these pathetic Incels remind me of the Incel mass murderer Elliot Roger the poor, rich boy, Incel that was rejected by girls.
I don't like that they referred to anyone they don't like, or anyone they either don't get on well with it try are bullied by as "queer" it's not necessary to use that phrase in a inaccurate context and it's offensive to some people. They use the N word, which is unacceptable and racist.
The most vile, disgusting aspects of the book sometimes we're the prolonged, very descriptive descriptions of how the innocent child Timmy was murdered, the torture and death of Charles Buckley's dog Ringo was horribly mutilated and killed, it was just unnecessary, and I think there should be some trigger warnings, since there were graphically described fictional deaths of children in this book, and not everyone would want to read about that.
I like that images are included in the book, but I don't like the image of the poor dog Ringo being tortured, mutilated and murdered.
There are a few references to true crime, real murders, specifically the Columbine mass murderers, Sandy Hook and Casey Anthony.
It was a slog to read, but I finally read it, I won't read it ever again, once was enough for me 🤢
I might re-read some of the short stories that are related to the characters in this anthology, I remember reading the short stories in the book Try The New Candy but it was awhile ago.