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| Language | : | German |
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| Number of Pages | : | 352 |
| Publication | : | First published June 29, 2010 |
Rob kann es nicht fassen. Doch noch weniger versteht er sich selbst: Er will bei ihr bleiben, er will Sex mit ihr, er will ihr beim Morden helfen. Denn es tut gut, endlich seine Wut und Lust zu befriedigen …
Bryan Smith zeigt das einzig echte Monster: den Menschen. Fans von hartem Horror a la Richard Laymon, Jack Ketchum oder Brett McBean können hier bedenkenlos zugreifen. Bryan Smith schlägt voll zu – unter die Gürtellinie!
Bryan Smith – der Slasher-König endlich auf Deutsch!
Todesgeil Reviews
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alright young lady, all you wanna do is KILL KILL KILL because you're free you're free, free to be yourself if you're a psychotic young lady and if you're a second psychotic young lady and if you're a third psychotic young lady and if all of the above are of the so-called "Killing Kind" and all they wanna do is KILL KILL KILL to get their blood pumping their adrenaline rushing which gets the narrative hurtling which gets the reader turning those pages, what next what next, wondering what will happen what will happen to those rich college kids all coupled out in their Myrtle Beach house, what atrocities will happen to them what what what will happen when three psychotic young ladies are calling the shots, like literally, and all it takes is some KILL KILL KILL for some men to show their true mettle, for some men to go soft and for some men to go hard, I think you know what I mean, some men will show what they've got inside of them, some quite literally, but it isn't about those guys it's about the ladies, the psychotic suicidegirl deadeyed coldblooded ladies and all it takes is some KILL KILL KILL for all of the juices and I mean all of the juices to get to flowing, this is a very wet book, and a very straight book, and it's Gay Pride weekend and now it's time to get out there and get my Gay Pride on and I surely do hope I don't run into any creepy straight people because it sounds like all they wanna do is, well, it rhymes with "goodwill" but sorta means the opposite
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Bloody good!
MYRTLE BEACH OR BUST!
You may think twice of not treating kind to some stranger in a mall...
...since you never know how resentful that stranger can become...
...specially if that stranger is a psycho killer girl with no remorse of murdering anybody whom she thinks that treating her in a awful way.
A tale not for the faint of heart, where evil meets evil, or at least you will have trouble to find any decent enough character in a dark rollercoaster, where everybody is going to a beach house where you can be that thing won't end well...
...not for a long shot... or cut!
Since I knew about this book, I fell in love with its cover, and gladly I was finally able to read it.
A solid option to any fan of gore and/or splatterpunk. -
I felt like I should get down on my knees and pray for my twisted soul after reading The Killing Kind, and I'm not the least bit religious. That's just how disturbed I was while reading. Not just because of WHAT I was reading, but the fact that I was enjoying it so much.
It has two main converging plotlines. The first is about a group of spoiled rich kids on their way to Myrtle Beach for a week of partying while on spring break. The second is about Roxie, a super-sexy goth chick who also happens to be a psycho serial killer. She wants to get even with the preppy rich kids who were mean to her at the mall, and she knows where they are headed. Twenty-something slacker Rob has no idea what he's in for when he gets carjacked by Roxie and told to follow the van full of teens. Needless to say, it's one twisted roadtrip.
Now, I read fiction in general to feel some kind of emotion, and I read horror to feel scared and/or disturbed. Well, this kept me absolutely mortified the entire time I was reading it, and yet it was impossible to put down. As opposed to Laymon and Edward Lee, the two writers he's most often compared with, Smith creates actual relatable characters (instead of characters you wish would just die already), so it's all the more horrific when the "bad stuff" happens. And it WILL happen. It's like watching a car crash, you just can't look away.
Any self-respecting fan of extreme horror and splatterpunk owes it to him or herself to read The Killing Kind, and proceed to be enlightened. Smith really takes it to another level here. And if you've never read this sort of thing before, prepare to be appalled.
4.0 Stars -
This is something like a mixture of Natural Born Killers and Girls Gone Wild if you can even imagine that; something like an over the top horror/slasher flick from the 80s. Edward Lee gives a gushing blurb on the cover and I can see why given the stunning amount of sex, gore and sociopathic depravity featured here.
The story features several story arcs that you know will be converging somewhere, and when they meet, it will not be for a tea party. We start off with a sexy goth gal (Roxie) carjacking and kidnapping the male driver (Rob) and heading off to Myrtle Beach in March. Why? Roxie said some rich frat boy pissed her off and she is going to teach him a lesson. Then we have three couples heading to Myrtle Beach for spring break, one of them guilty of insulting Roxie. Then we have a couple of mental hospital escapees killing and torturing some people on the side of I-40 in Tennessee. It is a little hard to keep track of all the sociopaths in this book; lets just say there are more than a few.
TKK moves at a rapid pace, shunting between various POVs effortlessly, with a few flashbacks from the main protagonists to further flesh them out as characters. Smith does a nice job with characters here, although almost all of them are pretty deplorable human beings. Rather than rooting for the victims, you are more rooting for the villains, like in The Devil's Rejects. This is kinda a hard trick to pull off, but Smith does it well. It is not like you want to be friends with Roxie, but you do come to respect her depravity after a while.
I should also say that this features a lot of steamy sex scenes as well as some truly nasty 'sex' scenes that made me think of Edward Lee. If Smith and Lee are not buddies I would be very surprised! There is definitely more than a hint of Lee in this, but Smith has his own unique voice. Filled with all kinds of triggers, gore and mayhem, Smith's TKK serves up a tasty horror treat. My only faults are that some of the characters were just too over the top-- the escaped lunatics for example. 3.5 stars, rounding up as Smith did a great job of building the tension throughout the novel. -
More of the same from Bryan Smith, The Killing Kind is another bold, brash and highly entertaining kill fest. If you’re looking for deep character development, wonderful prose or something that really makes you think, then go look somewhere else, The Killing Kind isn’t that kind of read. What this is a juggernaut paced barrel of violent fun that plays out like a movie with characters that more often than not have violent or sexual tendency’s and that’s it in a nutshell.
This book tells the story of some college kids heading out to Myrtle Beach for spring break, staying in a beach house owned by one of the parents, none of these kids are likeable in any way in fact they’re the kind you just love to hate. There’s the normal frivolities going on with drugs, booze, sex and some pretty devious & deceitful goings on behind the scenes but these kids are completely unaware of what’s heading there way.
You see, what is following them out to Myrtle Beach is a wave of violence and brutality none of them have ever seen before and this wave is about to crash right over the top of them in the form of the psychotic Roxie.
Roxie is the character that captures all the attention, there’s no stereotype here as with some of the others, she is a killer who takes what she wants when she wants and f*ck anyone who gets in the way, she is remorseless and ruthless in equal measure.
All in all this is an exciting & engrossing horror, plots fast, violence escalates to a brutal conclusion and there’s a couple of decent characters along the way. Not everyone dies and on the kindle version there is a few chapters from the proposed sequel of which I would definitely read. -
A proper review will come soon...
Until I get it written, here's a few thoughts -
I really enjoyed this book :) even better than the one of Bryan Smith's that I read just before this, (The Dark Ones) and that was pretty good, too!
What I enjoyed the most was that it could be real. Could have happened as I read it, might happen tomorrow. Point is - the only monsters are the human kind. The Killing Kind. I admit, seeing things through my eyes might give normal people nightmares, but Roxie is a bad-ass (she's also batshit crazy with a fetish for murder) and I was rooting for her all the way. A hot little 'goth chick' on a spree with a purpose, taking out anyone who gets in her way. Or anyone who looks at her sideways.
She's not the only killer on the run in this book. Great 'side stories', with everything & everyone coming together in the end.
Violent, torture, rape, murder, a touch of necrophilia with a severed head... fun times to be had by all!
I had a hard time choosing what to read next, because I want more of the same kind of story! (I picked BORN TO BLEED if you're interested.) I also watched AMERICAN MARY on Netflix the night I finished, and was very happy. It has my girl-crush from Ginger Snaps with a Roxie kind of look... excellent movie. Catch it, and tell me if you love it!!
P, L, & N <3
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Bryan smith can come across as a disturbed individual. This is fortunate for those of us who are huge fans of his madness.
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This was very cinematographic. Easy to imagine as a movie. Actually, it reminded me a bunch of movies - a motif from here, a scene from there. Another thing is that you usually spend an hour and a half watching a movie versus eight or so hours reading a book. Was it a bit too long? Maybe.
But I did like it. There were unexpected turns, and pleasantly anticipated turns, and cynicism deliciously prevailed over romantic. There were no good guys and even those very few who were supposed to be "good" (Zoe, Annelisa) were unlikable as fyck. Okay, I think I maybe liked Chuck somewhat, even though he was behaving like a bumbling horror movie character during the final fight.
I didn't like Roxie, or Rob, or Julie, or Emily... huh, you can say I'm not supposed to like them. But isn't it an integral part of fun when reading books like that: being charmed with evil, happily going on the ride with it? I've read in another review about a possibility of a sequel - and I'm not sure I'm all that excited about it. There is no character here I would like to read more about. There's something keeping me from giving this book five stars and saying I enjoyed it as much as I usually do with splatterpunk. I dunno; maybe I just don't like YA/NA books in any genre - or rather, I don't like YA/NA books that make me think about them as such, and The Killing Kind did.
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The youth is wasted on the young indeed. Appalingly selfish self absorbed nihilistic oversexed and plain demented youngsters have sex with and torture/murder each other in a variety of creative ways. This is a no brainer, almost no particularly sympathetic characters no deeper meaning, no hidden metaphors, just a straight up lightning paced slasher. You gotta be in the mood for this sort of thing.But if you are, I recommend it.
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oh my god, I totally loved this book, really enjoyed it, action all the way through,
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OK, but it goes on too long. So long that some of the characters seems to blur into each other. Roxie and Rob tho, they were like Hart to Hart.
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3 AND 1/2 STARS
This is definitely one of Bryan Smith's better horror novels. Visceral and highly charged, the first half reminded me a lot of the late, great Richard Laymon. Smith focuses on a select group of characters and their rather graphic killing spree, mainly set over a week of rampant slaughter. There are quite a few scenes of violence that will make even most jaded reader uncomfortable. Although most of the characters, on the surface, are not very likable, the female killer, Roxie, is written with meticulous care. The author nicely balances her violent acts with just enough eroticism that you find yourself ashamed to be so attracted to her.
I did feel the motivations for a lot of the killings were questionable, at best. But you can ignore those details because it is clear this book is meant for pure entertainment and to shock and keep the reader, along with the characters, constantly guessing as to what will happen next. One element that hurt the story for me was that the plot was too dependent on coincidence; not a single witness around during the violent outbreaks, people being at the wrong place at exactly the wrong time, and random violence happening outside of the main story arc (the bar beating, etc.). What are the chances all this would happen over the course of a week?
I will admit really enjoying this book until the scene at the Walgreens store, about 60 pages from the end. It was here that I felt the story's reality begin to slip into the absurd and lose a little credibility. Author Smith still manages to tie things up nicely with an effective, if gratuitous, climax. The aftermath seemed a touch pedestrian and rather expected, but, even with its flaws, I can still confidently say this novel remains a very good read. -
Bryan Smith serves up his most unapologetically gruesome, sleazy, disgusting book yet with 'The Killing Kind'. You can probably tell from the opening sentence of my review that Smith's books aren't for everyone. If you are a horror fan with a billy-goatish constitution you will most likely be able to handle this book, and if you're twisted as hell to boot, you might enjoy it. This is one, dark, nasty book that starts at a gallop and then races into a sprint. I would rate it higher, but I thought the ending was a bit of a letdown. I wouldn't want to give anything away, but I felt one of the major plot twists towards the end was kind of corny. There were a few other things about the ending I didn't like, as well. That said, this book is recommended for hardcore horror fans. As a hardened horror fan myself, I was even amazed at just how disgusting this book is. Smith really lays it on thick here. If you like Bryan Smith, or just extra pulpy horror in general, pick this book up.
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I don't understand how this has a 4.10 average rating.
It wasn't much of a horror novel, it was more like bad smut.
This was my first Bryan Smith novel and, judging from other reviews, it is one of his best. If that's true than I don't think I'll be reading more of his books. -
Zum Buch
Rob steht gerade an der Tankstelle um seinen Chevrolet vollzutanken als er Roxie sieht. Ein Gothic Girl auf der anderen Straßenseite, die auch noch genau auf ihn zusteuert. Während sie vorhat ihn zu entführen, ist er zu sehr in Gedanken und merkt daher nicht, welche Gefahr ihm droht. Erst als sie ihm eine Pistole in die Rippen drückt, wird ihm klar, was geschieht.
Mit Handschellen ans Lenkrad gefesselt, starten sie ihre skurrile Tour nach Myrtal Beach.
Zeitgleich ist eine Gruppe Jugendlicher unterwegs. Einer von ihnen ist dem Gothic Girl in einem Supermarkt begegnet und hat sie dumm von der Seite angemacht. Die Gruppe setzt ihre Reise nach Myrtal Beach fort und ahnt nicht, dass ihnen bald ein bekanntes Gesicht ganz dicht auf den Fersen ist.
Auch liest man die Geschichte vom Serienkiller-Duo Zeb und Clyde, die wahllos Opfer abschlachten und sie nach ihrem Tod sexuell Missbrauchen. Als Julie, die Babysitterin der von dem Duo ermordeten Familie, die beiden Killer dabei erwischt, wie diese sich an der Familie vergehen, keimen ungeahnte Gedanken und Gefühle in ihrem Kopf auf.
Wird Rob den Horrortrip mit Roxie überleben? Was passiert mit den Jugendlichen und erreichen sie Myrtal Beach? Welche Gedanken sind es, die Julie durch den Kopf gehen und was passiert mit ihr?
Meine Meinung
In diesem Buch ist genau das drin, was draufsteht. Nämlich Horror vom Anfang bis zum Ende! Bis auf ein paar kleine Verschnaufpausen, ist das Buch voller Szenen der Quälerei und Grausamkeiten. Allerdings im positiven Sinne, denn die Szenen sind teilweise so detailliert erzählt, dass ich (wie erhofft) eine Gänsehaut bekommen habe.
Durch den Schreibstil des Autors konnte ich mir die Szenen bildlich vorstellen, was meinem Magen ehrlich gesagt manchmal gar nicht so gut getan hat. Man lernt die grausamste Seite des Menschen auf eine realistische Art und Weise kennen und ich bin überzeugt, dass es auf der Welt wirklich so kranke Menschen gibt. Der Rahmen der Story, nämlich das alle Darsteller (aus verschiedenen Gründen) auf dem Weg nach Myrtal Beach sind, ist eher schlicht, doch durch die kaum abreißende Spannung störte mich das kein bisschen. Ganz im Gegenteil, denn wenn die Story umfangreicher gewesen wäre, hätte ich sicherlich Schwierigkeiten bekommen, alles nachzuvollziehen.
Was mir nicht so gut gefallen hat, ist die Szene, nachdem Roxie auf Zeb getroffen ist. Julie, seine „Begleitung“, ist nach dem Kampf widerspruchslos mit Rob und Roxie mitgefahren. An dieser Stelle im Buch, hatte ich noch einen Kampf zwischen den Frauen erwartet, da Julie ja zu dem Zeitpunkt bereits ihren „Spaß“ am Morden gefunden hatte. Ein weiterer kleiner Kritikpunkt ist, dass das Ende vorhersehbar war. Ich wusste eigentlich schon 20 Seiten vor dem Ende wie es ausgeht. Da hätte ich mir noch einen kleinen Kick gewünscht.
Dieses Buch ist auf jeden Fall nichts für Personen mit schwachen Nerven (und schwachem Magen). Aber alle die Horror mögen, werden meiner Meinung nach mit diesem Buch eine richtige Wahl treffen.
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Rob Scott has a penchant for the bad girl, goth-type ... and he has just seen the woman of his dreams. A dark angel fallen from the heavens saunters towards him as he pumps gas on another mundane day in an equally mundane life. It’s too good to be true…until she pulls the gun, presses it against his belly and turns his life and his future upside down.
Six very spoiled rich kids, on a road trip to a beach vacation with not a care in the world are about to learn that they have a predestined date with Rob and his new found 'friend', Roxie. The result is a bloody collision course that leaves no one unscathed.
Bryan Smith writes bad girls like nobody's business. In a genre where women all too often are the victims of the murderous psychopaths, Bryan introduces you to a new generation of the female in ultimate control. This is one of Bryan's best yet, and it is guaranteed to have you frantically turning pages until late in the night to see what insanity lies around the next corner. Highly recommended.
Contains: Rape, explicit gore, explicit language
Review by: Rhonda Walton
We have a second look at The Killing Kind by a second Rhonda, here is Rhonda Wilson's take on Bryan Smith's book.
Rob Scott thought he was having a typical day, pumping gas at the local Kwik Mart, until Roxie, the goth chick he was ogling from across the street decides to hijack both him and his car for a psychotic road trip to Myrtle Beach in order to hunt down a group of rich college kids that happened to have made fun of the wrong girl that day. Of course, Rob would be lucky if Roxie were the least of his worries. Unfortunately, she’s not the ONLY psychopath out there nowadays and she’s even in for a few surprises along the way as they head towards the beach.
Known for his fast-paced and gory storylines, Bryan Smith doesn’t disappoint his fans with this madcap road trip adventure. Filled with psycho hillbillies with a few mental instabilities, insane chicks, snobby co-eds, and even a good ol’ boy, Smith sets the scene for ANYTHING to happen! Anything you think WON’T happen, does, and anything you think WILL happen, for the most part, doesn’t. The Killing Kind is one surprise after another and leaves the reader both cringing and peeking through their fingers, not wanting to miss what is going to happen next. Highly recommended to any horror fans that can handle the nastiness which comes with a gory novel.
Contains: Adult language, Adult Situations, Sex, Violence, Gore
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Without putting a value judgment on this, I think this book definitely falls in the exploitation category. It's the kind of book that you feel like you shouldn't enjoy, yet you can't stop reading it because it's so morbidly compelling. Now, to return to the comment about the "exploitation" label, whether intentionally or not, I think exploitation fiction/movies in general provide their own unique kind of insights. These works exist because people like them. And I don't think (most) people like them out of misanthropy or lack of compassion for others, either. In school, I once commented to a professor that German studies people tend strongly toward an interest in dark or morbid things. I asked him his opinion on why that might be, and he said, "Because they're honest people." It was, of course, a semi-facetious and consciously reductive comment, but I think there's something to it. Things like death, the id, and violence are universally interesting topics, but I think we often avoid them because they're unpleasant (which is, of course, an understandable course of action). Because most of the history of what is now Germany was brutal and shitty, German literature has a much higher than average focus on themes like death and violence. (Goethe's "Erlkönig"? About a child dying. The Grimms' fairy tales? Abusive stepparents and lots of people dying and/or being tortured. Kleist? Unbelievably violent - the body count in his stuff rivals a George Romero movie.) They're legitimate, important themes. And being interested in them doesn't mean you would ever actually be eager to commit violence against someone in real life.
Now, the book at hand approaches these themes in a significantly more lowbrow mode. But even that serves a purpose - it makes you think about why this stuff is so compelling, and whether it's compelling because you're perverse and deviant, or because it's natural to be interested in this sort of thing.
In addition, the whole "What does a person's behavior in a life-threatening situation reveal about their character?" thing isn't new, but it interests me, at least, anyway. -
The Killing Kind is a difficult one to review. I really liked some of the ideas here, but in contrast, other aspects didn't quite grab me. For instance, the concept of "Lulu" was intriguing and could easily have been expanded into a book of its own. But I struggled with not having a single character - at least initially - to identify with, since almost everyone here seems to be a killer, a wimp, or overly mean and horrible when it comes to their supposed friends. In fact, this aspect reminded me of some of Richard Laymon's works, where seemingly every character introduced has a nasty, darker side lurking just beneath their seemingly normal exterior. The not-identifying made the opening third a bit of a struggle to wade through, but I persisted, knowing Bryan Smith would bring it together in some inventive way ... and did he ever.
For fear of spoilers, I won't go into specifics here. But there were two twists that I didn't see coming which I really enjoyed, and the disparate threads converging for the gory final act was handled well. Mostly though, I like Smith's writing style. His words fly off the page for me and I blasted through the final two-thirds of this in a little over 24 hours.
Recommended for fans of Smith or hardcore horror who don't mind an unlikeable cast of protagonists getting put through the grinder (err, not quite literally - just in case you were wondering).
3.5 Shrieking Victims for The Killing Kind. -
This book was not what I was expecting at all; it made me feel dirty, it made me sick, and honestly I wouldn't recommend it to anyone unless they have a really strong stomach and a love for feeling first person murder. *shudder* definitely wasn't for me
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Interesting road trip involving a female serial killer and her path of destruction. A little confusing at times, but a good solid read once the dust settles and the blood dries. Not for the squeamish. Highly recommended.
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Non-stop action mixed with a strong narrative certainly make THE KILLING KIND a cool ride. I look forward to reading more of his work.
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Definitely recommend this to any fans of Richard Laymon. Bryan Smith definitely nails the whole "this is so freaking disturbing, but I can't stop reading" thing. Love it!
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So I'm a little conflicted with this one. I love Smith's work, but the characters in this one were too difficult for me to get into. None of them were likeable. None of them had anything in them I could easily identify with. I couldn't root for any of them. Even Zoe? Yes, even Zoe. She suffers the exact same thing everyone else in this book suffers from: an inability to stand up for themselves and say no to their own weaknesses. Inability, not hey, I want to say no and I sometimes do but I just didn't do it this one time. Oddly, the only one this doesn't apply to is Roxie, who never lies about who she is and doesn't change herself to fit others' viewpoints. But she's still an awful person.
Ordinarily I wouldn't be into this kind of story, but I think the point of the book is that a lot of people think they don't have killing in them actually do. They just haven't been driven to the extremes that would reveal that. And there are a lot of extremes in this book. Kind of like Joker in The Killing Joke saying that everyone is one bad day away from being him.
The deaths are fun, even though the one person I wanted to die did not. Some characters had a few surprises in them near the end, like one of these insufferable people suddenly develops a backbone and realizes that giving just an inch to the killers means that your own death is that much more impending. And there was even a surprise from Roxie near the end. Not the epilogue, although the epilogue is pretty funny in some ways. And just when you think you've found a sympathetic character, it turns out that this character is awful, too.
I prefer it when characters I love, identify with or feel for get killed in fiction, and none of these characters apply. It was still fun, though. -
I know I've read a few of Bryan Smith's other books when Dorchester paperbacks still existed. I knew what to expect with the depravity and gore stuff. This one started off really strong, as Rob gets kidnapped by Roxie and is forced to follow a group of snotty college kids to some rich dad's cabin in Myrtle Beach. She has a gun and a knife and people on the road get killed. In music you have the theory of dynamics, with crescendos and diminuendos. In this book everything is turned to 10, it's all fortissimo, which quickly becomes static. Everything is batshit crazy and hyperviolent without any dynamics. This means that tension and suspense are lost in the din. The writing is fine, the dialog is fine, the scenes are described well, but the heartbeat of the plot is missing. There are no arcs to any of the characters. They run into the book, kill each other and screw each other and torture each other and then it's over, with a sequel around the bend.
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I wasn't sure how the different stories of killing came together until the end. This is a pretty quick read with some very shady characters. There's alot of killing happening in these pages. Rob is taken hostage by Roxie and learns a new path in life. Julie is running away from home looking to experiment with her urges. The group of friends going to Myrtle Beach just want to have some fun and sleep with each other until one of them doesn't. Mix in a couple insane guys who just kill at will and you get a very bloody soup of carnage. It took me 3 nights to read this book and never once had an issue with it keeping my attention. My only compliant was I'd get tired and couldn't keep reading.
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Gastrezension von Karl (meiner besseren Hälfte)
Klappentext
Als Rob seinen Wagen volltankt, taucht dieses sexy Gothicgirl auf und hält ihm eine Knarre an den Kopf. Sie braucht einen Chauffeur, denn sie verfolgt vier Jugendliche, die über sie gelacht haben. Offenbar will sie die abknallen.
Rob kann es nicht fassen. Doch noch weniger versteht er sich selbst: Er will bei ihr bleiben, er will Sex mit ihr, er will ihr beim Morden helfen. Denn es tut gut, endlich seine Wut und Lust zu befriedigen …
Bryan Smith zeigt das einzig echte Monster: den Menschen. Fans von hartem Horror a la Richard Laymon, Jack Ketchum oder Brett McBean können hier bedenkenlos zugreifen. Bryan Smith schlägt voll zu – unter die Gürtellinie!(Quelle Festa Verlag)
Über den Autor
Bryan Smith lebt in Murfreesboro, Tennesee/USA. Er schreibt mit einer explosiven Kraft. In Rekordzeit hat er sich an die Seite von Richard Laymon, Edward Lee und Jack Ketchum gekämpft, in die Riege der Kultautoren brutaler Thriller.
Meine Meinung
Story
Das junge Gothikgirl Roxie entführt den ahnungslosen Rob und begibt sich mit ihm auf eine blutige Jagt auf ein paar Jugendliche, nur weil diese sie auf Grund ihres Aussehens, beleidigt haben.
Was folgt ist eine Orgie aus Gewalt, Folter, Mord und Sex. Während Rob anfänglich sich noch dagegen sträubt, lässt er sich immer mehr in den Strudel hineinziehen, bis es auch für ihn kein Zurück mehr gibt.
Der Slasher-König Bryan Smith hat sich in diesen Roman einer Story angenommen die frei von Fantasy oder Horror Elementen ist. Dadurch entsteht eine Geschichte, die tatsächlich so geschehen sein könnte. Dabei geht Bryan Smith wieder einmal sehr ins Detail, was man ja auch von einem Slasher-Autor erwartet. Ich erlaube mir kein Urteil ob das sein muss, es ist halt eine Form von schriftstellerischer Freiheit.
Schreibstil
Das Buch ist einfach zu lesen und die Geschichte wird aus mehreren Perspektiven erzählt.
Charaktere
Neben Rob und Roxie, handelt das Buch noch von den Jugendlichen, sowie von einem weiteren Paar, dass mordend durch die Lande zieht. Als Leser schwankt man zwischen Akzeptanz und einer distanzierten Haltung, nicht nur gegenüber den Gewalttätern
Mein Fazit
Mir hat das Buch sehr gefallen. Ich finde auch im Gegensatz zu dem Roman Verkommen, von Bran Smith ( Festa-Verlag), eine schriftstellerische Steigerung zu sehen, die Geschichte ist alles andere als oberflächlich und man sollte sie auch nicht auf die Slasher Elemente reduzieren.
Ich vergebe vier von fünf Sternen.
Autor: Bryan Smith -
Kurzbeschreibung:
Als Rob seinen Wagen voll tankt, taucht dieses sexy Gothicgirl auf und hält ihm eine Knarre an den Kopf. Sie braucht einen Chauffeur, denn sie verfolgt vier Jugendliche, die über sie gelacht haben. Offenbar will sie die abknallen. Rob kann es nicht fassen. Doch noch weniger versteht er sich selbst: Er will bei ihr bleiben, er will Sex mit ihr, er will ihr beim Morden helfen. Denn es tut gut, endlich seine Wut und Lust zu befriedigen ...
Bryan Smith zeigt das einzig echte Monster: den Menschen.
Meine Meinung:
Nach "Verkommen", war dies der zweite Thriller den ich von Bryan Smith gelesen habe. Auch hier, ließ er mich mit großer Begeisterung zurück.
Man muss anmerken, das man diese Art von Bücher mögen muss.
Wenn man sich allerdings ein Buch aus dem Festa-Verlag zulegt, muss dies einem jedoch schon klar sein. Denn Festa-Bücher sind "GEWALTig", im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes.
Mir war es mal wieder nach solch einem Schocker und ich wurde nicht enttäuscht. Die Story trieft vor ganz bösen Menschen, Gewalt, Sex und Blut.
Das 20 jährige Gothicgirl - Roxie- ist das Böse in menschlicher Gestalt. Solch eine skrupellose, kaltblütige Mörderin, ist mir noch nicht oft untergekommen und das will was heißen.
Die Verwandlung von Rob, den jungen Kerl, den sie kidnappt und der ihr später hörig wird, war interessant zu verfolgen. Sein innerlicher, hormongesteuerter Kampf mit sich selbst und seinen Gefühlen, war zwischen den Gewalt- und Sexszenen abwechslungsreich.
Julie taucht auch irgendwann ins Geschehen ein. Schon früh merkt man, das sie eventuell noch gestörter und skrupelloser als Roxie zu sein scheint - und das Mädel ist erst 17 und äußerst pervers und krank im Kopf...
Apropos krank im Kopf - denn das, sind in dieser Story irgendwie fast alle.
Die meisten haben extreme Vorlieben, seien es nun die oben drei genannten Personen, oder die Jugendclique, auf die es Roxie abgesehen hat - im Endeffekt, haben alle einen Schlag weg.
Aber, das ist auch gut so, denn so muss das einfach sein und hat mir sehr gut gefallen!
Zum Ende hin, wartet die Story noch mit einer Überraschung auf, mit der ich nicht gerechnet habe...alles in allem, wurde ich exzellent unterhalten!
Fazit:
Für Fans der extremen Literaturkunst, des Festa- Verlags oder Richard Laymon, ist diese Story absolut zu empfehlen!
Für Leute mit einem schwachen Magen, rate ich jedoch ab, denn hier geht es hammerhart zur Sache! -
Група разглезени богаташчета се отправят на ваканция в Мъртъл бийч, която няма как да свърши добре, защото една от тях има планова да стане известна на гърба на останалите.
Един смотльо е отвлечен заедно с колата си от яка красива но луда мацка, която оставя пътека трупове от където мине.
Един избягал от кукавичарника шизофреник попада на 16 годишно момиче, но гласовете в главата му му казват да не я убива и двамата започват заедно да колят на воля.
Трите сюжетни линии се преплитат и вливат неприлично умело за жанра, карайки те да четеш с затаен дъх. Това ми стана новата дефиниция за сплатърпънк.
Десетки вътрешно изкривени човешки същества танцуват мъртвешкия си танц по страниците на книгата. Има много насилие, каруцарско ебане, психопатщина и убийства, не задължително в този ред, обаче всичко е описано в граници, които смятам за разумни, личи си че отвращението в читателя не е било цел на господин Смит, голям плюс за него. Всичко е написано с много добър стил, който почти ме накара да съжалявам, че автора не си е избрал друго малко по-сер��озно ъгълче от хорър литературата.
Зад цялата "забавна" касапница се усетих как наблюдавам със стаен дъх деградацията на героите, за някой бавна, за други като спускане по ски писта, и ми изглеждаше толкова реалистична, че ми се прииска да крещя.
Книгата изкарва на показ най-тъмните кътчена на човешката природа, карайки ме на моменти да се чудя, дали не съм попаднал в алтернативна реалност. Грубо показва един нов подвид в човешката раса - убиващия вид - и колко лесно е да се присъединиш към него.
Препоръчвам за всеки, който търси нещо привидно леко, с доста кръв, но сериозни послания под повърхността. -
* re-read August 2024, re-rated from 3.5 to 4 stars
I came across this book at the Book Rack, a used book store I used to hit up a lot when I was a kid. Their selection isn't that great; I'd guess about half of the store is made up of romance novels. But they have a decent horror section that sometimes yields some good offerings. A fan of Leisure Books, I picked up this novel by Bryan Smith, and found it to be a fairly compelling read.
The story concerns some obnoxious, mostly rich kids, heading for a beach vacation at one of their father's summer homes. The lead protagonist for much of the story, a kid named Rob, is nothing more than an easily malleable wet rag for Roxie, someone who tags along, at first because he has no choice, and later, just 'cause, well . . . just 'cause. She's hot, right?
Roxie murders people at random, and in order to achieve her goal of catching up with the rich kids at the shore. There are a couple of other psychos we meet in the beginning of the book, but once Roxie takes over less than a hundred pages in, it's truly her show.
"The Killing Kind" is full of brutal violence and some bizarre sex, and while not a great novel, held my interest to the point that I found myself reading one more chapter before bed.
