Brother

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Lost in his thoughts, he hardly noticed when she slowed, paid no mind to the fact that he had cut the distance between them in half. And that comes from someone who started reading Stephen King and Graham Masterton at the age of 13, but yes, while you can read the two aforementioned authors as a teen and get away mentally unscathed, you can't do the same with Brother. The killings, the lies, the betrayal, and the revenge are perfectly incorporated in this dark psychological thriller.

Once a year, scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a three-day camping trip; a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story and a roaring bonfire. The set-up of the homicidal backwoods family is quite familiar, but it will be interesting to see what Ahlborn, Strydom, and Morales have done with it. The family thrives on conning innocent people so they can get by, but Michael doesn't share the same interests as his family. There was a section where I wanted it to be just a little bloodier but I kept turning the pages and my wishes were granted.There was no way to get her back to the house like this, not with her thrashing around the way she was. Brotheris the terrifying tale of a family’s disturbing traditions, and of one brother’s determination to break free from all he has ever known. He grabbed for it, sunk his fingers into the ground, and unearthed a three-pound monster, grubs and worms squirming in the pale indigo light of the morning. When he hefted the rock up over his head, she stopped fighting, as if suddenly coming to terms with her fate.

She swung around to face him, threw her bound arms over his head, and opened her mouth as wide as she could, ready to tear his throat out with her teeth. If I had only known how good this one was going to be, I doubt that I would have waited nearly as patiently.All along the flashbacks had been hinting at something truly disturbing, then Rebel began targeting an older woman that didn’t fit their profile. Her earliest childhood memory is of crawling through a hole in the chain-link fence that separated her family home from a large wooded cemetery, where she’d spend hours among the headstones, breaking up bouquets of silk flowers so everyone had their equal share. Misty kept as much distance between herself and Momma’s hobby as she could, but it didn’t keep her from partaking in the spoils. After reading the synopsis I feared that I was going into a book that would be just a huge gore fest, but I liked Ania Ahlborn's last book Within These Walls so I decided to give it a shot.