Lamb
Chops & Chainsaws by Glen Johnson
I love the way this
author writes, so clean and with a dark humour. Well researched information shines
through the stories giving them an authenticity. I look forward to looking up
his other works.
Sods
Law: This wannabe serial killer has
rearranged his dingy life to become the ultimate nobody; a faceless killer. He
has taken time to disguises himself well in preparation for his killing spree
that seems to engulf his whole reason for being. He fantasizes about becoming
the next Jack the Ripper.
Sadly the State,
internet and TV are enabling him to do so.
What a way to open a
book. The misery portrayed had a loud ring of truth to it, which made for
uncomfy reading.
The finale is
hysterical but also rather sad.
The
Last Straw: A 73yr old man gets his last straw broken
over a dinner choice, or lack thereof.
Jim & Elizabeth
have been married 50 years and today is their anniversary, but for Jim it’s not
a happy event, or is it.
Having to live with her
nagging for so long something snapped in him.
I had to feel sorry for Jim in part, as he describes the long, lonely,
purgatory years he has endured, but then he could have just left… and he never
did get to eat his lamb chops.
The warped humour in
these stories just leaves you with a smirk and a grimace at the sadness of it
all.
The
Lord is my Shepherd: Poor Mrs. Hemp, fancy being compared
to a cupcake.
Headmaster McKinney
wants some sort of answer from her regarding her way ward son, what he gets is
not the one he was expecting.
Whilst he eats his
coronation chicken and mushroom sandwich, followed by a kitkat (but only two
fingers!) she reveals the truth, the repeated days and nights of child torture
whilst she and the local Father try to exorcise the demon residing in her son;
it makes for excruciating reading.
The ending is twisted,
but other than the sandwich which keeps popping up, there is no humour in this
story, just pure horror.
Shattered
Childhood: A hit woman is on a mission to complete
her quest, the revenge she craves for her families death when she was 9yr old.
She has trained long
and hard to become the killer she is today. Each kill marked on a precious
photo.
A harrowing story but one
that feels good in its karmic values.
No
Conscience: Saintpatrick is a contract killer.
However this time he may have taken on too much.
The sad and strange
story of how he became the best in the business is carefully laid out in
flashbacks.
A brief story, but
quite hard hitting and not without its own level of brutal horror.
Dirty
little Animals: It seems that Ms. Heart has lost her
marbles.
Her early childhood
memories are coming back to haunt and destroy her as she sees evil in all the
little children and everything they do, or lie about.
Oddly enough any man
that is around her seems to find himself dead in strange accidents.
As she enters her final
day with a plan to bring all the pain to an end she unleashes all her anger.
The reasons behind her
breakdown made my skin crawl.
The
Red Mist-ake: Simon is transforming, he is becoming……
As he begins his spree
of murders, the author is clearly enjoying the descriptions, almost reveling in
the grossness!
His next chosen victim comes
with a bonus addition but not all goes to plan.
Fabulous! Think this is
my favourite story.
Like
a son: A government trained killer goes on the run when he
gets wrongly set up.
Very military in
flavour and with a good dollop of survivalist paranoia. Not sure I liked this story;
it was intense, sad, without humour or motive.
The
A List: A serial killers finale, I loved the circular feel
to this story.
The ending was exquisite
and would have loved to find out about the other kills and more about this
character.
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