Monstrosity

What is the deal with these other reviewers always downing Edward Lee? He's one of the best writers out there, if not the best. Don't listen to what these other crack pipe smokers say about this book. It is awesome awesome awesome! Great characters:check. Great plotting:check. Great monsters:check. Great mystery:check. Great sex:check. Great suspense:check. Great violence:check. Great gore:check. Great horror:check. Great storyline:check. Great action:check. What the heck....just check all of the above because Monstrosity contains everything that makes a novel great. This book is so fast paced and tense and horrifying I read it in one night. This is Ed's 5th novel I've read and all have been superb in every way. Ed Lee has gained a fan for life in me. I do believe he is incapable of writing a disappointing novel. All these people that gave this novel 1,2, or even 3 stars are the same people that run and buy his other novels and complain some more by giving his other novels bad reviews. Hint: If you don't like sex and violence and gore and mayhem and great storyline then quit buying his novels and go read Ramsey Campbell or Charles Grant in the "quiet" horror section. It's not rocket science people. You know what Ed Lee is like when he writes a novel, so why do you all go out and continue to buy them. Honestly, I think the reviewers that give him bad reviews secretly like his stuff but just want to complain. I honestly don't see how you can't like this novel or any Ed Lee novel for that matter. Unless you're just not into horror books. If you're reading my review just go out and buy this novel or any of Ed's novels. They're greatttt! I won't tell you the plot of this novel because I don't want to give anything away. Just know that it's scary and terrifying and has plot twists galore and great characters. Next up The Backwoods. Oh how I can't wait. I think I'll go read that now. I'm telling ya Ed Lee rocks the house. Check him out!!!!

Our story opens with the ultimate down-on-her-luck heroine. How down? She's homeless and has few prospects thanks to a recent military-related scandal. Before long, things are looking up... way up... as she's offered a great new job with some fantastic perks, including a beach-front cottage to call her own. But anyone who's ever heard the phrase "if it seems too good to be true, it probably is" (or who has read a horror novel in the past decade) knows that things probably aren't going to go well... before you can say "ick" there are mutant frogs, sinister secrets and sexual shennanigans that would make Dr. Ruth blush unfolding all around our hapless heroine. And just when you think you've got the whole thing figured out, hang on, because there's a final-page twist which forces the reader to look at everything which has happened from an entirely different perspective. As is often the case with modern horror, this is a book filled with graphic imagry, both horrific and sexual, so readers would be advised to procede with caution. But for those of a strong constitution, Monstrosity offers an unforgettable read that will keep you up nights, even long after the final page has been turned.

The whole book was hardcore entertainment from start to finish. So much stuff was going on.

Blurb from back cover : Blue skies, palm trees and flawless white-sand beaches. Clare Prentiss thinks her new home is paradise and her brand new job as security cheif at the clinic almost seems too good to be true. It is. But the truth is worse than she could ever imagine.Lurid dreams, erotic obsessions and twisted fantasies aren't the only things that abruptly invade Clare's life. Is someone really peeping into her windows at night? Yes. Could those grotesque things in the woods possibly be real? Yes. Clare being stalked? Yes. But not by anything human. By a monstrosity.Overview : Lee does a remarkable job with this book. It jumps out and grabs you, shakes you within and inch of your life and keeps you begging for more!*Atmosphere In depth descriptions of the area really sets the mood for this story. I actually felt I was back in Florida.*Characters You feel the pain that our main character Clare has had to suffer and even how other character can be annoying. Lee has a true feel for the writing of different personas.*Story/Plot/Pace I loved the style Lee used. Just when you were knee deep in a particular story line, he would yank you out and throw you into a totally different storyline! This kept the pace steady and you felt terrible having to set the book down ~ leaving the character hanging until you could return to the pages!*Style Very fluid writing style from beginning to end!Jekyll & Hyde Movie Reviews (and sometimes books) http://horror-web.com

'The bodies lay in pieces. They'd been expertly dismembered.' So starts this brilliant horror novel by the author of 'The Bighead'. It is 1995 and we follow a professor at an archaeological dig, his team having uncovered the 10,000 year remains of an Indian tribe (The Ponoye) and their place of worship; the mummified remains of the Ponoye appearing to have been mutilated by something else down in the cavern...We follow what happens on this dig as the book progresses. The bulk of the book is set in the present time. Clare Prentiss is offered a dream job as security chief in a federal reserve - the skies are blue, she has a beautiful beach house. But her job at the government research clinic seems too good to be true. And it isn't. For starters, there are the mutated creatures lurking in the swamps - take the eels with heads the size of Dobermanns, the giant centipedes, and rats. And Clare herself is plagued by erotic dreams. This is an exciting pulp horror romp, laced with lots of gore (and not gratuitous in anyway), skilful characterisation, and big scary, mutated creatures, all mixed in with a good dollop of paranoia and an 'X-Files' type conspiracy theory. This is intelligent and literate horror fiction.