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Aug one, 2021 update:
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May 20th, 2017 update:
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Feb 14th, 2017 update:
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Dec 30th, 2016 update:
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"Write something night," they said.And so I did.
Delight read the excerpt here
Aug 1, 2021 update:
Improve the Devil You lot Know is now available at Godless - get it hither.
The audiobook is now available at a number of places... as usual, use this link to find all the buy links in one place.
May 20th, 2017 update:
Better the Devil You Know is back in Kindle Unlimited! :)
Feb 14th, 2017 update:
Better the Devil You Know is at present available at Amazon for Kindle.
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December 30th, 2016 update:
With ARe closing, I had to figure out a new place other than Payhip to put Amend the Devil You Know (though Payhip is the best for me, it's not the best for everyone). It'due south banned forever on Smashwords so I decided to try going through D2D and putting information technology under Horror and just Horror. Let's encounter how that pans out.
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5 HEARTS
--This one is for the night and twisted lovers.Earlier jumping into the bloody, stabby goodness, do yourself a favor, if yous're faint of middle or don't normally read torture porn: read a sample. The showtime ten % sets the tone in graphic detail. If you can handle that, then you can handle this volume.Clever
This is clever, pulls no punches and hurts real good. I was butchered by t
Grouping Review with Lori and Cupcake! 5 Hearts from the lot of us. Bloody brilliant (literally)!Meet our reviews here:
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--This 1 is for the dark and twisted lovers.Before jumping into the bloody, stabby goodness, practise yourself a favor, if yous're faint of heart or don't normally read torture porn: read a sample. The first 10 % sets the tone in graphic item. If y'all tin can handle that, and then you can handle this volume.Clever
This is clever, pulls no punches and hurts real practiced. I was butchered by the sharpest blade from a talented swordsman. His weapon of choice? His words. (And I honey my swords)
Byron is monster among men: too brilliant, too handsome, too wealthy, too insane. Yous know the guy you lot fear to never run across in a dark aisle? Byron'due south that guy times a meg. Hell, you don't want to see Byron in the calorie-free of day. He's stone cold and this is his story. "Better the Devil You Know" is an erotic horror thriller that read similar a movie. We get to not only read Byron'south serial killer rap sheet but experience his dirty deeds at different periods of his life.
It'due south gruesome.
And every tag on this book is fully earned. Because I don't desire to give abroad a major plot twist, my favorite graphic symbol from the book happens to exist the other guy! I've wanted to read a book starring him...in quite old. It'south been done before but I liked the author'south way writing him. Plus, the earth edifice was top notch (as usual) I could see every gush of blood, every horrid detail...oh, I quivered in delight.
My fucked up scale is warped, seriously warped. I thought information technology could have went even further than it did...and I don't know if the homo torso can sustain the torture performed. The main players impressed me with their skills.
Hands down, one of my favorite reads of 2015.
It read effortless. Zip read as if information technology was written for daze value. Information technology was depraved and classy. If the tags don't turn you off and you don't need romance (this is so not), I can't recommend this enough.
P.S. I'thou gaga for this encompass. Cover, title, volume, the unabridged concept is a win-win-win for me.
A copy provided for an honest review.
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match was a pretty charming character, despite his trigger-happy & deranged nature (duh, he's lucifer), but byron… at present THAT'S one sick and twisted bastard! 🤣
they were both very intriguing though, i kind of wanted to go on reading just to see how much more fucked up they
lucifer was a pretty charming character, despite his fierce & deranged nature (duh, he's lucifer), but byron… at present THAT'S ane ill and twisted bastard! 🤣
they were both very intriguing though, i kind of wanted to keep reading just to run into how much more fucked up they tin can get.
yous're definitely non gonna like this if you lot're non into violent, gory, agonizing books. but if you are… i recommend giving this a shot!😋
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Both of whom did a much better job of reviewing this than I.
My mom loves movies. She goes all the time and gets amped up around award season over which movies she's already seen and which ones need to be seen. Plans are made. Distances are sometimes travelled. She drags dad forth because she'south a giver similar me. He's a good sport about information technology and always has kind words, though I doubtable he'd much rather see movies wherein shit gets blown upward rather than arty indie flicks but whatev
BR with Infant & Lolley!Both of whom did a much improve chore of reviewing this than I.
My mom loves movies. She goes all the time and gets amped up around award season over which movies she'southward already seen and which ones need to be seen. Plans are fabricated. Distances are sometimes travelled. She drags dad forth because she's a giver like me. He's a good sport about it and e'er has kind words, though I suspect he'd much rather see movies wherein shit gets diddled upwardly rather than arty indie flicks merely whatevs. Information technology'south their affair and it'southward cute as hell. But you lot know how those award movies can exist, right? Critics Beloved them. Audiences… not then much. But back to mi madre. She does this thing when I ask her how such and such movie (read: intense) was. She usually makes (what I've termed) The Big Optics with the associated double eyebrow raise and says, 'it was good, and then and then was phenomenal, but I'll never demand to come across information technology again.' and that, my friends, sums upwardly how I experience virtually this book.
BeyBey can write. This is not news. Objectively speaking, the storyline is on point. How everything comes together was perfectly executed. The secondary characters made the feel worthwhile. The characterization of Byron is vivid in its monstrosity; he has no redeeming qualities. He'due south the sort of character that inspires and stars in my nightmares because he's a real, everyday monster. I had one niggle with regard to the "psychosis" mentioned, but that's an occupational gamble and I'm not going to separate hairs over it.
The story is gripping and if you're a horror fan, you're going to be boozer with happiness like a cat in a pile of catnip. Just I am a squishy cupcake and a lover not a fighter. I unabashedly prefer sex to violence, so this was a struggle for me. If you're going to put rape and torture in my books then I demand redemption or retribution in the cease. Neither occurred here. My reactions were visceral and a couple times I thought I was going to have to abandon transport which is a testament to the power of the writing and how talented BeyBey is, that I pushed myself to terminate because I wanted to know.
Will I read it again? Fuck no! I deleted it from my kindle already. Am I sorry I read information technology? No. It was an experience. An experience alike to the madre'due south most recent experience with Black Mass. Once was plenty.
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The book was intense, gory, encarmine, weird, disturbing with unexpected bits. It was fascinating at times. Other times not so interesting. But it is curt, then it didn't really matter a few pages that they were a bit repetitive.
Three are the mysteries of the volume:
ane.Who is Byron
2.Who is Michael
3.Who is Gloria
The book is parano
I was really curious most this book although I knew it isn't romance which is my favourite genre lately. But I used to love horror, so the book was familiar territory for me.The book was intense, gory, encarmine, weird, disturbing with unexpected bits. Information technology was fascinating at times. Other times not and then interesting. Just information technology is curt, so it didn't actually matter a few pages that they were a bit repetitive.
Iii are the mysteries of the book:
i.Who is Byron
2.Who is Michael
3.Who is Gloria
The book is paranormal. Zilch is what is seems. The task description of the three main characters is not actually clear until the last few pages. And so there will exist a kind of happy (???) ending.
I read a few reviews that were proverb that if you manage to get through the commencement affiliate, you will exist fine with the rest of the book. I completely disagree. I found some of the scenes later on specially disturbing. And there are triggers there for me that I would definitely avoid in the books that I read. Only we are talking almost the devil here, and then I suppose anything can exist included.
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This books was dark and twisted and seriously fucked up. Like seriously.
And I loved every single word.
To be off-white, if you go far by the get-go chapter, then you lot're probably going to brand it through the whole story. At least, that was how it was for me. Those first pages - whoa. It was like walking across called-for coa
Not for the faint of centre... I freaking loved information technology. Non sure what that says virtually me, listen. Group review presently at bmbr.*****************************************************************
This books was night and twisted and seriously fucked up. Like seriously.
And I loved every single word.
To be fair, if yous get in by the offset chapter, and then yous're probably going to make it through the whole story. At least, that was how it was for me. Those first pages - whoa. It was like walking across burning coals, but to observe out they weren't glowing a trivial, but actually flaming withal. I read the labels, I knew information technology was not for the faint of middle...
What disturbed me more than Bey's execution of words though, was the fact that, however fucked this was, nevertheless uncomfortable I felt, in that location was a part of me that was turned on just a bit. That is the best scrap virtually fiction; the fact that information technology'due south fictitious. Knowing information technology's non real plainly oils the moral compass a niggling.
A wonderful piece of writing from a main of words. Night, twisted, fucked up - and oh so bloody clever.
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"If I have already died, then I cannot experience mortal pain, tin can I? The fearfulness of death is what drives man to succumb to his hurting—fearfulness weakens the resolve. Without the fear of expiry, what is left?"
Byron is a sick fuck. if yous read the synopsis for this novel, y'all could probably come to that conclusion yourself. only for some stupid reason, I underestimated his ability to do fucked up shit. *sigh* what a grave miscalculation I made.
before I was about 24% through the novel, it didn't seem too bad. the gory scenes made me question my own beingness, and the writing was a piddling confusing, merely everything was going alright. until Gloria and Byron'southward scene takes place.
in the scene, Gloria and Byron are in a hotel room after they hooked up. I'yard fairly certain Gloria is a transgender adult female, and she needed money to pay for a legal proper name change and surgery, so she did these "transactions" for money to pay for that. and after the two hookup, Byron figures this out. then what does he do? he drugs her and explains how he'll cut off her dick, of form.
"I'm going to tell you exactly what I'g going to practise to y'all, my beautiful Gloria. Get-go, I'thou going to cut this pathetic, unwanted, pitiful little penis off your beautiful torso. Then, I'm going to make some cuts and open y'all up"—Byron's breathing became heavier and his face was flushed—"And so I'm going to brand love to you, Gloria. I'grand going to brand you a real woman. I know, I know… You probably didn't imagine your offset fourth dimension as a existent adult female would be with a gay man. In fact, it might take a actually long time for me to accomplish orgasm again, just the blood should aid. Hopefully, you last that long."
and as if this wasn't bad enough, Gloria brings up the point of being just another statistic after she dies
"I'm a fucking statistic. A stereotype. Another black tranny murdered in cold claret. She wondered if anyone would even claim her body."
which quite literally bankrupt my heart in two. I wanted to feel better after she reappeared in the story numerous times equally an angel or some type of hallucination, but I couldn't. at the end of the mean solar day, she would be just another tragic case or upsetting statistic instead of a real person.
then yep, Gloria'southward backstory affiliate made me want to cry. but when I thought back on this novel and Byron's character, I realized something: Byron commits these sadistic crimes to fulfill his fantasy, he gets away with it (in the mortal world), and then he gets to have a powerful position in hell. yes, in real life, lots of people do horrible crime like Byron and get abroad with information technology, but that'south not the point.
Byron literally gets to kill innocent people left and right in horrific ways to feed his fantasy, and has no remorse for his actions. he gets a somewhat happy ending considering he's some type of rex in hell, but his victims didn't become that. no, his victims just have their corpses in the ground, all because they accidentally stumbled upon Byron.
and yep, I know, this is very clearly marketed as a night and gruesome volume, and so I shouldn't be complaining. but I fucking am because this shit makes me upset. why would I root for a character that has no moral or emotional development later on killing endless innocent individuals? why would I? I encounter no reason to, and that'south why I was infuriated with Byron's grapheme.
to add onto my huge frustrations with Byron, I didn't like the writing. a lot of times, I had no clue what was going on. and if I did, and then the scene/chapter would end so chop-chop that I wouldn't have the full picture that the writer was trying to depict. of class, this is heavily subjective. but it still upset me a fleck considering I was trying my best to enjoy the book, withal it was difficult to because the writing made me not desire to read the novel at all.
in conclusion, "Better The Devil You Know" is a novel built on a very creative premise with unique characters that didn't work for me. only you shouldn't even be surprised at this point. if I tin can't similar the primary protagonist, and then how the fuck am I supposed to like the story? mhm, that's what I thought.
Friction match was pretty dope and had some evolution on the horizon, simply he deserves someone meliorate than Byron. sad, someone had to say it. doesn't matter what my opinion on the two is anyway, since near people who read this volume probably ship them. Byron is a sick fuck that I don't requite a shit about, and I think that this book could've been executed a lot amend. but the story was idea-provoking, and then that's a plus. not sure if I would actually recommend this though.
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You're the sick slice of shit.
Heh, Perchance? But I own information technology.
Before I get into the review of this book, allow me tell y'all a bit about myself. I similar nighttime books. I like things that brand y'all kinda sick to your stomach when you read them. The darker, more shocking, more WTAF is going on and why practice I like it and the extreme nausea inducing the better. Now, I tin can't watch the same discipline affair, but I can read the things someone would scout and be okay with it. Merely my admiration for the dark and
You're the sick piece of shit.
Heh, Maybe? But I own information technology.
Before I go into the review of this book, let me tell you a fleck about myself. I like dark books. I like things that make you kinda sick to your tummy when you read them. The darker, more shocking, more WTAF is going on and why practise I like information technology and the extreme nausea inducing the better. Now, I tin't spotter the aforementioned subject affair, simply I tin can read the things someone would watch and be okay with information technology. Simply my admiration for the night and twisted books, the scary books started many years ago with a collection of short stories by Stephen King titled, Skeleton Crew.
You lot see, I read Skeleton Crew in the 6th grade, shockingly the library allowed one of their young repeat customers to check it out, and I did a book written report on it. The written report focused on my favorite short story, which remains my favorite to this day, "Survivor Type." The story is told in diary form of one Richard Pine, a surgeon and heroin addict on a deserted island slowly going out of his mind. Richard is hungry and well, there is no food but he does have: Four gallons of water, a sewing kit and a first-help kit. Why is that important to the review of this book? Because at the age of xi, I was hooked on a story about a surgeon who decides to slowly amputate parts of his body as sustenance. You can imagine the call home from my instructor to my parents nearly my book report and how inappropriate it was of me to read such a graphic and gruesome story. *grins* See, the darkness started early with this ginger and even today, hearing Lady Fingers mentioned, makes me recollect fondly of Richard.
Just my love of that story and honestly of Stephen King was not just due to the darkness but the fantastic words that told the story. Annihilation dark or "tough" to read, has to be written well or information technology'south only for shock value and that does zero but leave me cold. Well written stories, no affair the content, are merely that. Well written and well written stories that accept you lot to another place you'd never imagine going before.
And then on to this book, when I saw SheRead's review and she mentioned information technology was for lovers of the dark and twisted, my senses tingled. When I read the sample, I was stunned and nevertheless completely intrigued by Byron and then the twist happened.
Holymotherfuckingshitballs, was that always a brilliant twist and I knew correct and so, I had to run and purchase the book.
Wow.
Doesn't this feel sort of similar a horror movie?
Totally, but and so well written (exercise I demand to start counting how many times I take said that?) that it could only be in volume class. This author, killed me with his words. I have been flayed and tuckered and every bit of information technology was worth it. It was exquisite torture.
And that title! I love a good title when it really fits the story and yeah, um… hang on …
Y'all starting time a chat you can't even finish it.
You're talkin' a lot, merely you're not sayin' anything.
When I accept nothing to say, my lips are sealed.
Say something once, why say it again?Psycho Killer,
Qu'est-ce que c'est~ Talking Heads
Where was I over again? Oh aye. Reviewing this volume.
Anyway, the world building is amazing and this is coming from a lazy reader who balks at world building due to the corporeality of work it takes but this, was easy to autumn into and become i with the darkness. It was seductive and yeah, really skillful.
Now, I refuse to spoil this volume. I will say as SheRead's did, read the sample and if you lot can handle it, motility on because it'due south so freaking fracking worth it.
This was like a Danse Macabre version of The Twilight Zone which is one of my favorite all time shows. Each episode was rich with night irony that left this viewer breathless with its beauty and this, believe it or not, does the same. And that end? Holymotherfuckingshitballs, information technology was first-class!
I will leave you with this: Heed the tags, listen the disclaimer because all of that is in this story. All of it is in that location, and I'll admit to some of it, being well… titillating.
Oh, nothing like that, mon cher monster…
Just and so once more, maybe it is? *smirks*
Last note because I have to include it and aye, only await if you read the book because information technology could be a spoiler… this song was on abiding repeat in my caput (view spoiler)[ and what better version that the one that ended in such fucked-up-ness with the Hell'due south Angels as security… Sympathy for the Devil (hide spoiler)]
Tags: graphic torture, forced incest, rape
Start let me say that this volume is not for anybody. It'south night and twisted and completely depraved. I loved information technology!
The book starts off with a horrifyingly gruesome scene where we encounter series killer Byron Danielson "enjoying" two of his victims. It only gets worse (meliorate?) subsequently that as we experience Byron'due south killings in disturbingly graphic and gory item.
Every bit interesting and deranged as Byron was it was the other guy, Michael, who really grabbed me. His char
Tags: graphic torture, forced incest, rape
Start allow me say that this book is non for everyone. It'due south dark and twisted and completely depraved. I loved it!
The book starts off with a horrifyingly gruesome scene where nosotros come across serial killer Byron Danielson "enjoying" two of his victims. It simply gets worse (better?) afterwards that equally we experience Byron's killings in disturbingly graphic and gory detail.
As interesting and deranged equally Byron was it was the other guy, Michael, who really grabbed me. His character was fascinating and he's who I wanted more of. I'd say this is simply as much his story as it is Byron's.
I want to say more just I tin can't really tell yous what this volume is about because it'due south the twists and turns the story takes that fabricated this then great. Every time I idea I knew where it was going, the plot took a completely different direction. Information technology fabricated for a clever and thrilling read.
I love gore and horror and those are what commencement caught my attending just it was the excellent writing that kept me captivated. This is my beginning book by Deckard just it definitely won't be my terminal. I'm off to devour his backlist!
**ARC provided past the author in substitution for an honest review.**
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Byron was one of those hate to love characters - my favorite kind. I really enjoyed how his character is revealed through his victims' stories (and Lucifer reading them like a novel, that's just great). The jumping timeline is perfect here, really well done.
Oh Saeed, that one bankrupt my eye a piddling. And his relationship with Micha
That was just cute. The way that the story flowed from grapheme to character, told from multiple pov's, it drew me right in to each person's feel. Perfect.Byron was one of those hate to love characters - my favorite kind. I really enjoyed how his character is revealed through his victims' stories (and Lucifer reading them like a novel, that'southward but great). The jumping timeline is perfect hither, really well washed.
Oh Saeed, that one broke my eye a lilliputian. And his human relationship with Michael was so sweet. (view spoiler)[I realize killing someone with his ain lacrosse trophy is far from sweet, but he had a expert reason. Things might have gone differently if those gay bashers had left them lone. (hide spoiler)]
Told through other characters' optics Byron was a very different person. Always cold, with those calculating, dead eyes and blank expressions. Just when told from his pov, similar his exchanges on the dates with Michael, Saeed, and through his relationship with Gloria and eventually Lucifer, I saw a different Byron. He just didn't show it well in a non-series killer manner. Ha, sorry that was dizzy, just seriously he was a wonderfully complex character and I am glad in the finish he gets everything he deserves (in the most fantastically twisted manner possible).
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Thanks for the nightmares, Bey Deckard. Top marks on that!
(view spoiler)[Cutting a pigsty into someone's chest and fucking up into it so you can touch your cockhead to his tachycardiac centre seems ridiculous and excessive. But then so was cutting off his penis and raping his son with information technology. (hide spoiler)]
See, I avoid Torture Porn movies, and it seems that I'll avoid Torture Porn books as well, for precisely this reason: a
After reading the sample I cannot run far enough or fast enough away from this.Thanks for the nightmares, Bey Deckard. Peak marks on that!
(view spoiler)[Cut a pigsty into someone's chest and fucking upward into it so y'all can touch on your cockhead to his tachycardiac heart seems ridiculous and excessive. But then and then was cutting off his penis and raping his son with information technology. (hide spoiler)]
See, I avoid Torture Porn movies, and it seems that I'll avoid Torture Porn books besides, for precisely this reason: later my initial "ew! Nightmares!" reaction it boils down to empty-headed and unnecessary.
So I will skip this. But anyone else who wants to read it - accept fun and good luck!
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Also, whoever shelved this book as 'romance' and 'bdsm' should go their head checked out! This is horror, pure and simple — the tags in the blurb say it all, really.
I have no thought how to rate this, and so I won't. It'south one of the most disturbing books I've read in a while, though, and I don't say that lightly. I thought I knew what to wait after reading the sample, simply nope. This was just another level of fucked upwards. The author'south twisted mind should be commended, I retrieve…Also, whoever shelved this volume equally 'romance' and 'bdsm' should become their head checked out! This is horror, pure and simple — the tags in the blurb say it all, really.
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Yeah, well in the same way, I said to myself that this was completely NOT my kind of affair and was going to marker it as "not-for-me", only then I was curious enough to read the sample – something happens in it that made me want to notice out how this was going to play out...so I bought the ebook and read it in one sittin
This is horrific Simply compelling none the less...you know in that way that you can't accept your eyes off something awful every bit it's happening? You kind of want to look away but you can't?Aye, well in the same mode, I said to myself that this was completely NOT my kind of thing and was going to mark information technology equally "non-for-me", simply then I was curious enough to read the sample – something happens in it that fabricated me desire to observe out how this was going to play out...so I bought the ebook and read information technology in 1 sitting.
I have to admit, my initial thought when reading the blurb and reviews was "errr, NO THANKS!", specially seeing some of the quotes...merely, no...only then I kept seeing interesting reviews and the fashion the blurb was written was intriguing. I accept to admit that growing up I was fond to the horror genre! My friends and I used to get xviii-rated horror films out the video store when we were about 10yo and scare ourselves stupid and for years I read everything that I could get my hands on that was classed as horror. I call up this is why when I switched to reading fantasy/sci-fi in my after teens, I ever preferred the darker, grittier reads. Even now when I relish a huge range of books, I still find the darker ones the most delicious of all.
And so yeah, I can't exist blamed for being tempted to read this! I mean expect at that cover, read the blurb! And I just kept seeing the book come upwards in my feed...then I couldn't resist giving it a become!
In the end, this wasn't actually what I had expected at all. I felt the worst part was in the sample – information technology was undeniably sick. Actually, really ill. And every bit many others have said, if you can get through this, you tin read the volume. There is a lot more horrid stuff throughout, but this first part seemed the most awful to me. If you give this a go, you lot have to remember, this is Not a romance, not at all. You need to grade information technology as fucked upward horror (with a flake of a paranormal twist).
I did really like the manner that we saw about petty mini-stories within the overall story of diverse victims - through these we kind of see a little more of the overall story revealed. And I must have missed how information technology said "paranormal" in the blurb, as this part came equally a surprise to me when I came across information technology in the story...although some of this part seemed a little underdeveloped, I liked how this was almost a second part to the storyline about.
I won't say much more other than that this was most definitely ill and twisted, and Bey, when everyone asked you for "dark"...wow...you most definitely delivered, even if it wasn't quite what I would accept expected. Kudos for writing something so horrific!
I was quite worried how this would all stop, as it seemed a difficult one to finish off accordingly, but I think information technology was relatively fitting.
So yep, this most definitely won't be for everyone, but I would urge people to give the sample a go before ruling this ane out. You can read an excerpt directly from Bey's blog if yous want to give it a become: http://www.beydeckard.com/web log/ameliorate...
I notwithstanding couldn't quite decide what rating to give even after finishing...the writing pulled me along and I didn't put it down, but in that location were a few elements I wasn't as dandy on around the paranormal part, then I've settled on 4 stars overall. 4 stars on GR is meant to mean 'I really liked it' - in this instance I'grand using it to mean I really liked existence horrified by it? existence scared by it? yeah something similar that... :)
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The beginning of this book was beyond agonizing. So were other several parts of it. And past disturbing, I mean the extreme border of limits disturbing. Hardcore torture, rape, and pain are used to feed and bring sexual satisfaction. And let'due south not forget about the forced incest, both with attached and detached body parts.
Despite all this, I gave this book 5 stars. Why? Well, underneath the psychopathic sexual proclivities of both MCs lay the idea of goodness. The idea of g
Oh, Wow! 5 Devilish Stars!The offset of this book was beyond disturbing. And then were other several parts of it. And by disturbing, I mean the extreme border of limits agonizing. Hardcore torture, rape, and pain are used to feed and bring sexual satisfaction. And allow'southward not forget nearly the forced incest, both with fastened and detached torso parts.
Despite all this, I gave this book 5 stars. Why? Well, underneath the psychopathic sexual proclivities of both MCs lay the idea of goodness. The idea of goodness in Hell, and that hurting served a higher purpose.
Then, despite all the triggers and extremely trigger-happy depictions of sexual animalism and torture, this volume was about condign our true selves and putting that nature to its best uses.
This isn't a love story. Not in the to the lowest degree. Just Bey Deckard does provide the states with the most logical of endings given the realities of the world he depicted. Well written and ridiculously imaginative, this is an amazing volume if you can stomach the bad, and know that you'll get your reward in the end.
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Not many will brand it through the first chapter: information technology's brutal, and this comes a warning that this is pure horror, written purely for the dark
You know, I got just a little taste of Deckard'southward flare with darkness when I read Caged, not too much, and I was hoping--really hoping--he'd accept it that little deeper and bear witness us only how dark he tin go. Well that'due south the last frickin' time I stand on the sidelines with a pole, singing "how dark tin you go..." because he didn't disappoint. Not one sodding bit.Not many volition make it through the first affiliate: it's barbarous, and this comes a alert that this is pure horror, written purely for the darkest of nighttime reader. Don't go there if you don't like it dark and delving into sick minds.
Subsequently I got my "I survived Bey'southward first affiliate" T-shirt, in comes the brothers... And oh boy... difficult... dark.. emotional...
I'yard not proverb anything else here, other than I usually slip in a gif of the characters to aid with the visuals. This ane has to become to Bey, because he's taken a seat next to Joseph Lance Tonlet with this, and as with Joseph, it'due south and then damn great to see such a dark master at play...
And yeah, I ain a paperback re-create, bought from Amazon! lol
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Story = Exceptional
Book = Fucking Infrequent
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Writing = ExceptionalStory = Exceptional
Book = Fucking Infrequent
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4.5 stars
My encephalon says, "The writing was genius, at least 5 stars."
My sensitive soul says, "Owie, that hurts."
So nosotros had to run into in the center.
Sexually night books accept always fallen into two categories in my heed. The kickoff has a warped lead who mentally or physically tortures an unwilling subject and then deeply that my psyche winces, but despite everything, the recipient and I withal develop Stockholm syndrome for him. The 2nd has a completely evil function who mutilates or gr
4.5 stars
My encephalon says, "The writing was genius, at to the lowest degree five stars."
My sensitive soul says, "Owie, that hurts."
And then nosotros had to see in the middle.
Sexually night books have always fallen into two categories in my heed. The get-go has a warped lead who mentally or physically tortures an unwilling subject so deeply that my psyche winces, but despite everything, the recipient and I all the same develop Stockholm syndrome for him. The second has a completely evil part who mutilates or gruesomely murders the victims of his sexual urges in graphic item. He pushes me too far, causing a loss of all emotional connection which turns the material into a bad read for me.
Improve the Devil You Know made it's own new category. I had that sick feeling of going too far during more than i scene; even so, my attraction to the plot didn't pause. Also while throwing out these horrors on the surface, in that location's a unlike storyline bubbling underneath. The reader is presented with a mystery and a differing outlook than the usual. At that place's a lot of shock factor, but there'south also intelligence.
Byron is medieval and savage upon several people during his life. The accounts of some of his 'dates' are given. Although the story is told in third person, the accounts are from the point of view of Byron'south prey. Each tale gives further clues in the overall scheme of things.
This is ane of the darkest books I've always read. Parts of information technology were and so disturbing that I don't even know how to convey the depravity. It is absolutely not for many, merely for a sure audience, it is perfection. Amend the Devil You lot Know is horrific, smart and beyond rare.
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The story begins with Byron's pastime of sorts: one that makes even the fictional serial killer lover in me cringe. If you can't stomach the outset chapter, then I would probably stop there every bit the story makes a motif of Byron'due south aesthetic endeavors. But eventually, things accept a paranormal twist of sorts, and this is where I kind of felt the stor
Better the Devil You Know is a strange volume to me. On i hand, I really similar how it didn't pull its punches. On the other, I'thou thinking, "what's the bespeak?"The story begins with Byron's pastime of sorts: one that makes even the fictional serial killer lover in me cringe. If you can't tummy the kickoff chapter, then I would probably stop in that location as the story makes a motif of Byron's artful endeavors. Just somewhen, things take a paranormal twist of sorts, and this is where I kind of felt the story going astray. While I expected things to become fleshed out more, all that happened was me not really "getting it." There's no romance, no suspense, and no existent direction. I was let down, because I felt like Better the Devil You Know had all this Free energy, but information technology wasn't really channeled into something meaningful. Certain, at that place's an ending. Merely I didn't really empathise what resolution came out of it, as I didn't even realize at that place was a conflict/problem to be resolved.
So basically, if you're looking to read nearly a sociopathic murderer, and so this is information technology. Just don't expect much of a story to continue with information technology.
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The book blurb has tags, warnings so any reader can know what they're getting. Please do mind them -
i)This is not a romance.
2)Tags: graphic torture, murder, paranormal, forced incest, rape. A BIG Yep. To all of these tags.
Longer (not super long) but non-spoiler review on the blog -
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I don't like bad things happening to people, not in existent life,
'How-do-you-do, nasty little fucker' - my first thoughts on this volume which never changed as I read, it is one long NLF.The book blurb has tags, warnings and so any reader tin know what they're getting. Please practise mind them -
ane)This is non a romance.
2)Tags: graphic torture, murder, paranormal, forced incest, rape. A Large Yes. To all of these tags.
Longer (not super long) but not-spoiler review on the blog -
http://ontopdownunderbookreviews.com/...
I don't similar bad things happening to people, not in real life, merely in fictional books it's open slather – but I have to be in the mood. Knowing your own limits and your idea of enjoyable reading is of import considering this is non a comfortable read. It also doesn't ease upwards because bad things practice happen to adept people throughout. It truly is macabre, although the writing is too interspersed with tongue in cheek humour. I didn't love the ii master players, but I did find them intriguing. The writing also had a hook or two that made me want to keep reading - the psychology, the constant unknown, the politics. Because the author put his foot downwards and unabashedly went for it with his writing, it has such a verve near it. I love the championship, it'due south so apt, the world building was pretty damn good as well. The book admittedly accomplished its primary aim. And, well, I'll exist honest, I have this total soft spot for Gloria. Hellishly interesting and impure reading.
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Before I swoop into this, I'd brand certain I read the sample first. And thank goodness, I could handle it.
I'm a big fan of horror. And so this kind of book was practically made for me. It was actually clever. Good psycho book. Seriously.
What I disliked :
It's just likewise bad no romance involved. And of form I know this is not romance. The author said it himself. Simply yet, I'm all well-nigh romance likewise. I demand it. Just similar I demand my gory stuff.
Now
Commencement of all, proceed with caution. This is not for anybody.Earlier I dive into this, I'd brand sure I read the sample first. And thank goodness, I could handle it.
I'g a big fan of horror. And then this kind of book was practically fabricated for me. It was really clever. Skillful psycho book. Seriously.
What I disliked :
It's simply as well bad no romance involved. And of course I know this is not romance. The writer said it himself. Simply all the same, I'grand all about romance too. I need it. Just similar I need my gory stuff.
At present I need something lighter to keep it remainder..
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A review past The Blogger Girls.
There are quite a few reasons Mr. Deckard is on my auto read listing, non the least of which is his power to suck me into any blazon of story, oft those genres I would normally steer clear of, such as sci-fi, or, in this example, gorey, gruesome serial killer craziness. I admit that I didn't read the blurb much past the warnings, which should most definitely exist heeded. And so, when I began this story, I didn't realize information technology was a paranormal-ish tale. That being said, this star
A review past The Blogger Girls.
At that place are quite a few reasons Mr. Deckard is on my car read listing, not the least of which is his power to suck me into any type of story, oftentimes those genres I would normally steer clear of, such as sci-fi, or, in this instance, gorey, gruesome series killer craziness. I acknowledge that I didn't read the blurb much past the warnings, which should most definitely be heeded. So, when I began this story, I didn't realize it was a paranormal-ish tale. That being said, this starts out with a big bang and literally dives right into the middle of Byron'due south gorey life.
The first affiliate, alone, was one of the most disturbingly gruesome scenes I've read, and I cringed the whole style through information technology. I had the same feelings I had when I watched my first SAW flick. Byron is a bit of a mysterious fellow, and information technology takes a few chapters to really get a sense of what is going on. Although, just when you think yous understand things, it twists in another direction. Byron is a serial killer who is extremely creative in carrying out his killings. He has the assist of his PA, Gloria, who turns out to be as, if not more than, creepier than Byron. Everything eventually catches up to Byron when he meets his end and Match takes him to Hell to pay for his sins.
Lucifer is quite the interesting grapheme. He has been lording over peoples' souls for a long time, and it seems he is getting a bit tired. There is a connection with Byron, and even Gloria plays a role. Needless to say, there is more than than one twist in this story that kept me on my toes until the cease.
This story is put together as craftily as one of Byron's killings. I'grand not certain how to describe the writing other than to say that information technology just stands out in its masterfulness. If the horror/gorey aspect of this story isn't for you, please stay away. Still, if you can handle or even relish the cringing and slight nausea of a creepy thriller, I highly recommend information technology and promise the writing volition polish through for y'all as much as it did for me.
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The only fearfulness, really, was the fear of pain itself. How long could you keep your hand in boiling h2o if, somehow, you were made to believe that there would be no injury?
A pitch black erotic horror thriller, this volume pulls no punches. It merely dumps y'all into a black hole of torture, blood, gore, depravity and mind gam
How many painful, humiliating, horrifying things could you make a person practice if they idea they would survive it? In Hell, in that location was no surviving, because there was no death.The only fear, really, was the fear of pain itself. How long could you lot go on your hand in boiling water if, somehow, you were made to believe that there would be no injury?
A pitch blackness erotic horror thriller, this book pulls no punches. It simply dumps you into a black pigsty of torture, blood, gore, depravity and mind games with our very ain Lord of Hell, Match, thrown in for adept mensurate.
I loved this volume. Especially the offset chapter.....that almost gave me an adrenaline rush. Byron was demented and fucked upwards simply goddamn (pun intended) was he creative in his torture.
The paranormal aspect threw me a footling at the start simply Lucifer charmed me.😆😈 It was the best kind of nighttime erotic, guilty pleasure read. 🖤
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2.75 twisted as fuck depraved stars story.
DNF at 10%
OMG... this i is seriously not a book for me. I wouldn't get any sleep if I'd continue... or suffering nightmares.
DNF at 10%
OMG... this one is seriously not a book for me. I wouldn't get whatsoever slumber if I'd go along... or suffering nightmares.
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Bey Deckard is the author of a number of novels including the Baal's Eye books, Max, Beauty and His Beast, and Ameliorate the Devil Yous Know.
Bey lives in Montréal, Canada where he spends most of his time in the company of a handsome mutt named Murphy. When Bey'southward not writing, he's doing graphic work, painting portraits, speaking French, cooking tasty vegetarian eats, or watc
Creative person, Writer, Canis familiaris LoverBey Deckard is the author of a number of novels including the Baal'southward Centre books, Max, Beauty and His Animal, and Amend the Devil You Know.
Bey lives in Montréal, Canada where he spends nearly of his time in the company of a handsome mutt named Murphy. When Bey's not writing, he's doing graphic piece of work, painting portraits, speaking French, cooking tasty vegetarian eats, or watching more than movies than is practiced for him. If you're the curious type, www.beydeckard.com is where y'all'll find fine art and free stories past Bey too every bit information on his published works.
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