With nothing but the clothes on his back—and something horrific snapping at his heels—Jack Winter fled his rural Georgia home when he was still just a boy. Watching the world he knew vanish in a trucker’s rearview mirror, he thought he was leaving an unspeakable nightmare behind forever. But years later, the bright new future he’s built suddenly turns pitch black, as something fiendishly familiar looms dead ahead. When Jack, his wife Aimee, and their two small children survive a violent car crash, it seems like a miracle. But Jack knows what he saw on the road that night, and it wasn’t divine intervention. The profound evil from his past won’t let them die…at least not quickly. It’s back, and it’s hungry; ready to make Jack pay for running, to work its malignant magic on his angelic youngest daughter, and to whisper a chilling promise: I’ve always been here, and I’ll never leave. Country comfort is no match for spine-tingling Southern gothic suspense in Ania Ahlborn’s tale of an ordinary man with a demon on his back. Seed plants its page-turning terror deep in your soul, and lets it grow wild.
Seed is an amazing read, full of thrills and suspense and gore, all the things necessary for an fantastic horror novel. The creepy factor for this book was through the roof, set in the perfectly gothic southern Louisiana . This isn't Hollywood horror, but dark and evil, twisting and insidious and eerily subtle. Jack's history was revealed little by little, lending to the suspense that built throughout the story. I loved Jack who tried so hard to be something other than what he was, always carrying the air of a tortured man. Charlie was about as creepy as possible, absolutely chilling throughout the story. But the ending is what made the story for me. Not your typical, "tie up the loose ends" kind of ending, but a thrilling one, chilling to the bone. Fantastic read!
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