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Sian

The ending!! 😫😬😳

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 March 2024

Wizzed through this book, was so good! The right amount of spooky! Now i jave to binge on all Ania Ahlborn books!!

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Ali78

Meh.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 January 2024

I've seen this book recommended on book groups so many times, that when it came up on sale on kindle, I jumped at the chance of buying it.
All I can say is it was OK. The ending was as I expected and feared, (not the frightening kind of feared though) I mean predictable and felt the whole story was a bit wasted because of it. I'm so pleased. I only paid 99p and that it was a short read. If it had been longer I'd had been raging that I wasted precious reading time on it for it to end the way it did.

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Sian

The ending!! 😫😬😳

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 March 2024

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Wizzed through this book, was so good! The right amount of spooky! Now i jave to binge on all Ania Ahlborn books!!

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Sabrina Brown

Inevitable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 January 2024

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Though I enjoyed this book, and Ania Ahlborn's books are well written and gripping, I pretty much guessed some of the plot twists. A good story with an inevitable ending.

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Ali78

Meh.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 January 2024

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creepy. suspenseful. brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 January 2024

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I absolutely loved this book! Not usually being one for horror/ thriller titles, I took a chance on this and wasn’t disappointed.
The writing is good. The story has real pace and energy.
Definitely worth a read

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Jake Dolsey

A Punch In The Gut Of An Ending!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 November 2023

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Great book and great ending. Felt a little rushed at the end, but I enjoyed it. Not for weak tummies!

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Scary and gripping but unsatisfying, distasteful ending

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 October 2013

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This story had me hooked from the beginning and I thought the idea of the demon possession, though not original, was done well and did give me the creeps. Someone else has left a review that I thought was overcritical of the writer's style. Maybe she does use too many similes but they are not ineffective ones e.g. "her sheets pooled upon the floor like discarded snake skin" or "moss that hung from ancient trees like a tangle of witch's hair". I found the scene with the family dog particularly horrifying and compelling. However, I felt that there was too much time spent on dwelling over Charlie's transformation and I got very frustrated by Jack's inability to be truthful about what was happening with Aimee. I eventually lost empathy with him because, despite realising that history was repeating itself, he still followed the same pattern his own parents had and kept leaving his family even though he was the only one aware of how much danger they were in. I also found it a little unbelievable that Aimee took so long to connect events and the creature to the tattoo on Jack's back. I quite liked the trucker character and think this could have been developed more. The story for me was mostly spoilt by the ending. I won't give the plot away. Maybe the author felt it was unusual and made it more of a horror. However, for me it meant that everything that had happened to the family was pointless and doomed and I just wish Jack had been made into a stronger, more courageous character.

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Started off well

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 April 2024

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Thought the story started off interesting, held my attention, but I was left asking what was the cemetery significance of the story and the idea of a curse from generation to generation, how did this come about? Although an OK story it didn't creep me out or scare me... did like the idea of good not always being able to conquer evil,

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Gordy

Enjoyable horror

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 May 2024

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Enjoyable horror read.
Will read more from this author.

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Wendy Unsworth

Great Writing .... and Gruesome.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 October 2012

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I was going to give this 3 stars for my overall enjoyment of it but it deserves 4 stars for the writing alone.
I really loved the writing style of this book; simple, immediate and very believable prose that sucked me in from line one.
The story is centred around Jack, Aimee and their little family of two young daughters. Life is tough, money is in short supply and while Aimee's parents are on hand they don't approve of Jack. Jack is estranged from his own parents and the reason for this unfolds during the course of the book.
The horror starts one night when Jack is driving the family home. A pair of eyes that suddenly appear before him causing him to swerve the car and crash.
Those eyes belong to something from Jacks dark past; what he hoped was over forever isn't - it's back and with a vengeance.
Mixed in with a little back story here and there is a fast paced account of the return of Jack's nightmare and it is pure horror, quite graphic and shocking at times.

*****Spoiler alert*****
What, for me, could have been a five star+ read diminished considerably in the last chapter. The ending would have suited a very chilling short story and, as such, would have been fine but, for me , the investment of time and the attachments formed with the family through the length of a novel; (though it is quite a short one) meant that the gruesome outcome with no hope for this family or future generations was horrific in a way that gave no satisfaction or even a sense of closure. I felt flabbergasted by the certainty that a six year old girl was going to grow up through all the travails of life only to be horribly murdered by her own child.
I suppose the only way to break the `cycle' would be for one generation to remain childless but then the `infected' one seems to go through a period of life when they are unaware and the evil is `dormant' until it is too late.
I didn't expect, or think it appropriate for Seed to have a fairytale ending but just one glimmer of good prevailing, would, for me, have made all the difference.

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TikTok tells lies

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 July 2023

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Warning, Spoilers ahead. This was fine. Absolutely fine. As horror stories go it’s spooky enough. Creepy kid, insanely large, needley grins, repressed memories, dark secrets, possessions, yup. Fine. All fine. But if you listen to booktok this is one of the most unsettling terrifying horror novels of all time. I wonder if the reasons they all find it terrifying is because the dog dies (nobody wants the dog to die), and the fact there is no redemption. In the end the baddies win, there is no salvation. I actually like that so much better than the “and they all lived to tell the tale” endings. It’s not one of the spookiest reads of all time. It’s not even in the top 10 freaky, terrifying books. It’s good. Not great. I must remember that TikTok tells lies.

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