𝕆𝕟𝕖 𝕓𝕠𝕪 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕤 𝕒 𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕥𝕒𝕝 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕠𝕠𝕕𝕤. 𝔸𝕥 𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕤𝕥, 𝕚𝕥’𝕤 𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕗𝕦𝕟 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕘𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕤, 𝕓𝕦𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤 𝕢𝕦𝕚𝕔𝕜𝕝𝕪 𝕥𝕒𝕜𝕖 𝕒 𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕟. 𝔸 𝕄𝕒𝕟 𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕨𝕙𝕪 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕡𝕒𝕟𝕪 𝕟𝕠 𝕝𝕠𝕟𝕘𝕖𝕣 𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨𝕤 𝕤𝕞𝕠𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕞𝕚𝕤𝕖𝕤. 𝔸𝕟𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕞𝕒𝕟 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕤 𝕒 𝕧𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕠 𝕥𝕒𝕡𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕖𝕤 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕡𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕 𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕 𝕙𝕚𝕞. 𝔸𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕣𝕖𝕖 𝕓𝕠𝕪𝕤 𝕘𝕠 𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕟𝕜-𝕠𝕣-𝕋𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕓𝕦𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕒𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕤𝕤 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕚𝕣 𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕤 𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣!
𝔾𝕣𝕒𝕪𝕞𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕚𝕤 𝕒 𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕠𝕗 𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕣𝕠𝕣 𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕥𝕤 𝕤𝕦𝕣𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕜𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕦𝕡 𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕖. 𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕤𝕖 𝕥𝕒𝕝𝕖𝕤 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕤𝕦𝕣𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕪𝕠𝕟𝕖. 𝕊𝕠, 𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕕 𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕠 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕙𝕒𝕥𝕤 𝕨𝕙𝕚𝕝𝕖 ℕ𝕚𝕔𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕒𝕤 𝔾𝕣𝕒𝕪 𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕝𝕖𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝔾ℝ𝔸𝕐𝕄𝔸𝕋𝕋𝔼ℝ 𝕚𝕟 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕤𝕜𝕦𝕝𝕝!
Genre: Adult | Horror | Dark Fiction
4 out of 5 stars! (for the whole collection)
First off I have to start by saying how proud I am of Nick! Nick is a fellow BookTuber and it’s always exciting to see people whom I consider friends making their dreams become a reality. Now to all my readers out there, although Nick is a friend this will not stop me from providing an honest review.
Graymatter is a fun collection! and by that I mean dark, gruesome, spooky but loads of fun. Some great concepts here! These short stories are those type of stories narrated by the main character that end with a big cliffhanger….leaving you wanting more. Oh and I can’t forget each has a great moral to the story as well.
While reading this collection I felt as if I was chilling with Nick while he told me some truly eerie stories. Nick has a way of writing different characters and really bringing their personality traits forward. For example one story is about a dognapper, he makes a living taking other people dogs and than just hangs at home until the owner puts out a reward. Once they do he jumps on it claiming his prize. The guy is an honest dirt-bag and I was appalled the whole time I read this story! Honestly, if you can feel those emotions while reading that’s when you know the author did something right. These are things you just don’t forget even after finishing the read.
There is one tiny negative that pulled my star rating back on this horror collection. Although an editor was hired there seems to be a lot that was missed. Spelling mistakes, grammar, repetitiveness and some sentences weren’t even proper English. Although I can understand these mistakes as everyone is human and while the author is pouring their thoughts and passions out onto paper it takes a lot of time to make the story crisp and clean. Multiple read through’s alone, even before editing (if it’s an option, which isn’t the case for most indie authors). That being said even after taking these steps and even hiring an editor a lot was missed. Although I am not one to talk negative about others or tell them how to do their job, I really feel whoever did edit this collection for Nick did not provide the service he paid for and I hope this won’t deter people from picking it up. Editing can really hurt an author! Some people won’t even finish a read or give it an awful review solely on the editing.
All in all honestly this collection was great! Again, Nick had great concepts, awesome characters and not to forget your mind and emotions will be stirred. I say it’s totally worth giving it a go. Also if you would like to check out my video review on my BookTube channel that would be awesome!
Thank you so much Nick for sending me a copy to read and review. I am so proud to own a physical copy and to have it sitting on my shelves. I can’t wait to see what else you have for us in the future.
Publisher: Independently published
Release Date: April 19, 2020
And of course thank you all for reading
Your PROUD Book Worm
-Nichole
𝕌𝕣𝕓𝕒𝕟 𝕝𝕖𝕘𝕖𝕟𝕕𝕤 – 𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕪 𝕥𝕠𝕨𝕟 𝕙𝕒𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕞. 𝕃𝕠𝕔𝕒𝕝 𝕧𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕨𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕝𝕪 𝕜𝕟𝕠𝕨𝕟 𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕤 𝕡𝕒𝕤𝕤𝕖𝕕 𝕕𝕠𝕨𝕟 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕘𝕖𝕟𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕟𝕖𝕩𝕥.𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕖 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕥𝕒𝕝𝕖𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕙𝕒𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕞𝕠𝕟𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕔𝕝𝕠𝕤𝕖𝕥, 𝕥𝕠 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕕𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝕔𝕦𝕣𝕤𝕖𝕤 𝕥𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕨𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕. 𝕀’𝕧𝕖 𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕞 𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕚𝕟 𝕞𝕪 𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕧𝕖𝕝𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝔸𝕡𝕡𝕒𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕤𝕠𝕦𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕟 𝕌𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕊𝕥𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕤. 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕢𝕦𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕚𝕤, 𝕕𝕠 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕖𝕧𝕖, 𝕠𝕣 𝕚𝕤 𝕚𝕥 𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕞𝕒𝕕𝕖 𝕦𝕡? 𝕊𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕖𝕤 𝕚𝕥’𝕤 𝕓𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕙𝕖𝕖𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕒𝕕𝕧𝕚𝕔𝕖 𝕘𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕟 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕖 𝕠𝕝𝕕 𝕗𝕒𝕞𝕚𝕝𝕚𝕒𝕣 𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕤. 𝔸𝕗𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕒𝕝𝕝, 𝕒𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕠𝕝𝕕 𝕊𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕡𝕒 𝕤𝕒𝕪𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕘𝕠𝕖𝕤 – 𝕄𝕒𝕪𝕓𝕖 𝕥𝕣𝕦𝕖. 𝕄𝕒𝕪𝕓𝕖 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕥𝕣𝕦𝕖. 𝔹𝕖𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕖𝕧𝕖.
𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕞𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝔸𝕡𝕡𝕒𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕒, 𝕒 𝕝𝕖𝕘𝕖𝕟𝕕 𝕚𝕤 𝕥𝕠𝕝𝕕 𝕒𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕝 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕝𝕦𝕣𝕜𝕤 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕕𝕖𝕟𝕤𝕖 𝕨𝕠𝕠𝕕𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝔾𝕦𝕟𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕜 ℍ𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕣. 𝔸 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝕚𝕤 𝕤𝕒𝕚𝕕 𝕥𝕠 𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖, 𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕖 𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕥𝕚𝕥𝕖 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕚𝕟𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕤𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕤 𝕕𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕤 𝕓𝕒𝕔𝕜 𝕙𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕣𝕖𝕕𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕪𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕤.
𝑜𝒻𝒻𝒾𝒸𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝒸𝒶𝓃𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇𝓈. 𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝒶 𝓂𝓎𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇𝒾𝑜𝓊𝓈 𝓌𝑜𝓂𝒶𝓃, 𝒟𝑜𝓇𝑜𝓉𝒽𝓎, 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝒿𝑜𝒾𝓃𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝓇𝑒𝓌 𝒶𝒻𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒻𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒶𝒹𝓇𝒾𝒻𝓉 𝒾𝓃 𝒶𝓃 𝑜𝓅𝑒𝓃 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓁𝑒𝒷𝑜𝒶𝓉 𝒻𝓊𝓁𝓁 𝑜𝒻 𝒽𝓊𝓂𝒶𝓃 𝒷𝑜𝓃𝑒𝓈. 𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒸𝒶𝓃𝓃𝒾𝒷𝒶𝓁 𝒷𝓇𝒾𝒹𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝒶 𝓈𝑒𝒸𝓇𝑒𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝒶 𝒷𝑜𝑜𝓀 𝓌𝓇𝒾𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓃 𝒾𝓃 𝓈𝑒𝒸𝓇𝑒𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝒹𝑒, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓅𝑒𝓇𝒽𝒶𝓅𝓈 𝒾𝓃𝓀𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎 𝒻𝓁𝑒𝓈𝒽. 𝒲𝑜𝓇𝓈𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝒶𝓁𝓁, 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒’𝓈 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓅… 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝒷𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝓅𝒾𝒸𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝒻𝒻 𝓂𝑒𝓂𝒷𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝓇𝑒𝓌. 𝒪𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓋𝑜𝓎𝒶𝑔𝑒, 𝒾𝓉’𝓈 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓁𝑒 𝒷𝓁𝑜𝑜𝒹 𝓈𝓅𝒶𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓇𝑒𝒹 𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝑒𝒸𝓀. 𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓈𝒶𝓃𝒹𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓂𝒾𝓁𝑒𝓈 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓃𝑒𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝓁𝒶𝓃𝒹, 𝓊𝓃𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒸𝒽𝒶𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝒷𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝒶𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓅. 𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒’𝓈 𝓃𝑜 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝒸𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓃𝑜 𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓅 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝒾𝓃𝑔. 𝐼𝒻 𝒽𝑒 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝑒𝑒 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒽𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓁𝓎 𝒶𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃, 𝒲𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓈𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝑜𝓊𝓇𝒶𝑔𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝒻𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓈𝓉 𝓊𝓃𝓈𝓅𝑒𝒶𝓀𝒶𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝒽𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓇𝓈…
𝐉𝐨 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞.
It’s New Year’s Eve 1980, and the students of DeAngelo High School are lacing up their skates for the All-Night New Year’s Lock-In at the Rollerville Roller Disco. Some of them just want to skate and dance the night away to the pounding disco music. Some want to pull a few pranks and have a few laughs. For others, like Dan Parsons, tonight is a chance to move on and forget about his ex-girlfriend, maybe even flirt with Denise, that cute girl behind the snack counter. It seems like nothing can go wrong.But there’s a massive blizzard raging outside, thick snow and ice are piling up against all the doors. There are those rumors that Rollerville was built over part of the old graveyard next door, and someone out there is watching. Also, a strange homeless man in the parking lot says that tonight will be the start of the so-called “Year of Blood.”A night of skating and New Year’s fun is about to turn into a night of violence and bloody mayhem in Disco Deathtrap.
Ronnie has the perfect summer job at the Indian Hill Golf Course. All day he gets to ride around on mowers and golf carts, check out the beautiful drink cart girls, joke around with his best friend Mark, and get plenty of fresh air and sunlight.That all changes when a huge late spring hailstorm blows in one night, leaving the golf course in shambles. As they clean up all the limbs and downed trees, Ronnie and Mark learn about the Native American Kikawa tribe that was brutally massacred at the top of the hill near the seventeenth green, and the evil medicine man known as Chief Tomahawk who supposedly put a curse on the land. It seems that the curse may prove to be real as the golf course is dogged with bad luck, and a dark figure wearing a wooden Chief’s mask and a black-feathered headdress is watching them from the shadows.Now, in preparation for the biggest golf tournament of the year, Ronnie and the maintenance crew have to come in and work through the night. They are about to find out that Chief Tomahawk has returned, and he wants revenge for his slaughtered people.
I found myself even before the creepy moments started working around in my head who I thought was going to be killed first and potentially how they were going to die.
ᴄᴏʟᴅ ꜱᴛᴏʀᴀɢᴇ ᴅᴇᴇᴘ ʙᴇɴᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴀ ʟɪᴛᴛʟᴇ-ᴜꜱᴇᴅ ᴍɪʟɪᴛᴀʀʏ ʀᴇᴘᴏꜱɪᴛᴏʀʏ.
Cold Storage becomes chilling. I felt I couldn’t put the book down until I knew exactly what happened and if the trio was successful.
Now not only is the guts of the book fan-freaking-tastic but the physical book is glorious! Depending on the edition you get….(may I suggest the Hardcover special edition copy). The book reads just as a B movie. You get the play button, movie previews (which all need to be brought to book), movie posters. Then of course you have a soundtrack and end credits. Now if you go the route I suggested and get the hard cover special edition you also receive alternate endings and a few other little jazzy features.
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