| Title | : | Jane Doe |
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| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
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| Publication | : | Published July 29, 2020 |
Jane Doe is a novella that some people might find distasteful. Actually, most people might find it distasteful. If you are of a nervous disposition, or have a weak stomach, perhaps you might want to give this one a miss, yes?
Full of blood, gore, brain matter and more, Jane Doe is an extreme horror, painted with the blackest of humour. Consider this a trigger warning for just about everything.
Jane Doe Reviews
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The book started in quite an exciting way. A woman being abducted by cabdriver Gordon. What happens afterward was very strange. Confined in the basement her hunger for the flesh of children came up. What is she? Gordon's god? Well, from there on the story got a bit of a downer. Unrealistic, bizarre in a way it didn't affect me. Maybe for fans of the author. Not my cup of tea to be honest!
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Very Bloody!
This story centres around Gordon, who pretends to be a taxi driver in the seaside town of Birchingate, to enable him to snatch women and keep them as prisoners in his basement. One woman he picks up is different and though he keeps her imprisoned, the tables have completely turned, and it’s this ‘Jane Doe’ who is in control.
This is all I’m saying as anything else would be giving spoilers!
This was entertaining, vile, very bloody and gory, and a lot of fun. Not really any sex, just a tiny bit, which is probably why I dropped one star 🤣
A tentacular 4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ -
It was tough to decide how to rate this but with regard to what I read I liked it. So I'll explain the dilemma I have been having with regard to shorter reads. Some like in the If I Die Before I Wake series which is a collection of short stories (and admittedly I've only read the first volume) flat out suck. I also seem to have an issue with a lot of novella's in that I see the potential for so much more in them so to a degree I get frustrated wondering why the author chose not to see that. Such is the case with this novella.
Gordon is a serial killer, rapist who has outfitted his house so as to house his victims. He uses his taxi to lure in his victims. However, when he picks up Jane Doe and successfully houses her in his basement sex chamber he discovers he has trapped and captured something more than human and something that ultimately turns the table on his plans. Such a cool little concept isn't it?
Jane Doe really puts Gordon to work and he clearly regrets capturing her. Could she get away from him. Oh, I think that answer is clear but why should she when she has a way of getting him to do as she pleases. Again what a cool little concept here.
Yet the book is just shy of 100 pages and my mind is thinking man if I had the intelligence to come up with such a book idea I think I could have gotten way more out of this than a novella. So perhaps it's just me and I should take what I read for just that, a longer than usual short story that was a lot of fun and after all what is wrong with a good fun horrific read?
I should stress that the cover of this advises that there is graphic content and extreme horror and that advisory is spot on my friends! There is a child who gets killed and at a certain level children being killed really bothers me. Figure that - lol. Yet killing a child is one thing, eating it is at a whole different level and that's what happens in this short little novella.
So be forewarned the content of this book is just as advertised, graphic with extreme horror. It was a nice change of pace for me as I am just delving into the graphic and extreme horror genre. Naturally such a genre can be really out there so to speak and when reading it I come into parts that I really don't buy into but who am I to question the depravity and its extent within some of mankind? Clearly we are a species capable of so much depravity. Also, as per maybe 5 out of the last six or seven books I've read their is an allusion to creatures who may appear to be human but are in fact so much more and I have no issue at all with regard to that aspect. In fact I kind of strongly buy into that premise and so enjoy reading about it.
I rounded this up to four stars but it is a weak four stars for me for the issues I have with this type of novella. However, I read short story collections and novella's to squeeze in a story per se. It is the type of book I'll bring to read while waiting for an appointment or a car repair so to speak, a story I'll fit in while getting ready for a buddy read. So, I have been scouring for short story collections and if you have any feel free to let me know. I recently purchased The Imago Sequence based on an author's recommendation and while at University I took an English class that dealt with science fiction and our short story book was The Road to Science Fiction: From Heinlein to Here. I didn't fair all that well in that class but loved that short story collection which I am adding to my collection as well :) -
Very well written. I couldn't put it down, I mean, I had to a few times, I had other stuff to do. But I wanted to keep picking it back up. So, you know, it was good.
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Gloriously disturbing!
This was a book with some surprises! I loved it. Books that start off in one direction then change directions are my favorite. Ash Ericmore is a brilliant author. -
Woah boy...
This novella is a vicious, vulgar, insane piece of splatterpunk filth. Atrocity and repugnant behavior abound. The villain(s) are... woah boy.
So, yeah, it's AWESOME BABY!!! Buckle yourself in, this one is sloppy.
5/5 Skulls
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What the f....? What just happened?
Quick, shocking, disgusting read.
But 3.5 rounded up. I didn't enjoy (and trying not to give spoilers), the dog, there was tentacles and that it was short I couldn't connect to the characters although it started off strong. -
Alright
I wasn't a fan of this one it's shame I've been enjoying this author so much..It was a syfy for me I prefer the more bloody horror types -
Another great gore filled story from Ash. His short stories are always great and also get me out of a rut after, or while reading a longer novel.
This one I wasn’t expecting the plot twist at all. Gordon got what he deserved, -
Gordon just wanted to abduct a nice lady, give her a place to rest her head and make her his for a while. Unfortunately, Jane is anything but a nice lady. Locked away in the void inside of her lurks a godly abomination that requires the flesh. She will do what she needs to do in order to get her fill.
I’ve read time and time again the classic tale of a man abducting a woman and keeping her in his basement, but Ericmore wins the Dakota Award for Originality on this one! Never has the thought of this story crossed my mind. It’s brilliant! When something seems so foreign to you, it’s hard to really guess where it goes, and it was a wonderful trip to not be in control. The unpredictability of this story shows off Ericmore’s story crafting skills. The man can write, people! -
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4.5⭐️ I read this within an hour because I couldn’t put it down. It was interesting concept for a book. I just wish the ending would have went a little differently. Only because I love a good revenge! Gordon picked the wrong woman to abduct is all I will say! It’s a must read!
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“Have you not noticed the influence that I can have over you? That I have had over you since you brought me down here. You do what I want, when I tell you. You rarely even question it. And in your dreams … in your dreams you are only my puppet.”
Gordon was the traditional kidnapper for years before his luck would suddenly and shockingly change. Constantly on the prowl for beautiful young woman to add to his captives, he would encounter Jane for the first time. Driving for a taxi service gave him alibi upon alibi as he picked them up one by one. Yet Jane has something different about her. From the day he brought her to his basement and shackled her ankle she had something off about her. Not frightened or easing for her life, instead she was totally calm and controlled him. She was a Godly creature who fed upon flesh of the deceased, and used Gordon as her pawn to obtain the flesh. First he slaughtered a young buy for her, then a teenage girl before his neighbor Nathan also fell victim to her hungers. Opening her chest reveled a dark ess inside, before tentacles reached out and stole the body inside. As he tried to poison her, he succeeded in destroying the vessel but unlocked her to fully fill his mind. Now it's weeks later and the police are hot on his trail as he abducted and slaughtered three children on a public beach to feed her. Yet she felt not an ounce of fear.
“Where is the flesh?” she asked. “I can …” She pulled a long breath in through her nose. “… smell it.” -
*I'm not going to give you the 'what this book is about' blurb - you can read that elsewhere.
1. If you've been around a bit you know I absolutely LOVE Ash Ericmore. That being said, this was a no for me.
2. I do not mean this book is not well written. It is (duh!). I personally just didn't prefer it when compared with other Ericmore works. When you read as much of his stuff as I have/do, you're bound to have one that falls to the bottom of the list and this was it for me.
3. Revenge is typically something I love in a novel and I can't say I wasn't a little thrilled to see Gordon get schooled. He absolutely deserved it. It just happened in a way I didn't care for. I think Cosmic Horror is not my jam. Who knew?!
4. If you like Revenge and Cosmic Horror and can stomach gore, this very well may be a book you love! -
I started my journey into Ash Ericmore’s twisted writing with the Smalls family, then the zany Bob Sausage shorts, and now here I am with a whole new mindfuck in Jane Doe! This was an amazing early-story twist that just kept getting weirder and better as I read on! Reminded me a bit of Koontz’s “Intensity” but with less dogs and more tentacles. There was a time when I thought “Intensity” was the craziest, most violent story I’d ever read, but that time was long forgotten once I was introduced to Ericmore’s brilliance!
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My first book from the author. Enjoyed it a lot, bloody, gory and extreme. Loved the premise. Gordon picks up someone, locks them in his basement but it turns out that person is more than he bargained for, and his already unusual life gets just a bit more unusual. The humour was done well, didn't find it jarring which usually happens with comedy in horror, it was done well, (or maybe I have a similar humour to the author). My only minor problem is that there are some typos in the ebook version which I got from Amazon. It did pull me out of the scenes, but overall still found it enjoyable.
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I don't see how this book is self described as "extreme horror." It was more moderately violent science fiction. The main "monster" was just oddly described and more puzzling than scary or disturbing. Not at all what I was expecting or hoping for.
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I’m not sure about this one.
Okay the first half, amazing. You lost me towards the end. Not sure if the dude was losing his mind by not taking his pills or Jane was really the eel monster demon thing. Either way he was super fucked in the head. -
Bizarre
What did I just read? Definitely fantastical horror. Quite a bit of gore. A fun read if you like that kind of thing. I couldn't stop reading! -
Interesting story. Way different than I thought it would be. At least it was a quick read.
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Great story…
Loved the transference, the mundane reactions to the horror… and loved shitdog too.
A great quick read -
Great
Well I have just read 3 of his books and they were extreme horror like no other. Loved it! Gory and sexy. I recommend.
