Extremities by Ash Ericmore

Extremities Reviews

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  Peter Topside

  This book had a pretty solid opening premise. Tilly and Thomas were born to an extremely dangerous, abusive, and troubled mother. They were raised in this horrible situation and then they became separated. I was hoping this would be a story of these two living their lives as damaged adults and struggling with the childhoods that were robbed from them. Unfortunately, the story just seemed to keep everything focused on sex, and to a lesser extent violence, and left so much of its material unattended to. It almost felt like there were several different stories going on, with attempts to link each one together, but everything came off as disjointed. Nothing felt organic and there are so many sex scenes, that it got boring after awhile. I wanted to know more about Thomas and what he went through, which was barely addressed, and the same for Tilly. Instead, we had all this focus on a few detectives that seemed to be repeating themselves over and over again, and Danny as a placeholder, with him just feeling like an excuse to add in a ton of sex. We never know anything about him beyond being a sex addict. Nothing about his marriage to Wanda, his background, or anything of substance. Just the fact that he has sex nonstop with whoever. And the entire mystery over the Death Collector was very obvious, but still could have been done well if the focus was just kept on the estranged siblings. Lots of potential, but I ultimately finished this story frustrated with the lack of development on the important pieces.
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  Rayne Havok

  Ash Ericmore is the master of story telling and character development. He makes you care about them, love them, root for them, makes you cry for them. It's a skill not everyone has, and he has it in spades. A brilliant writer.
  This story is wild, it twists and turns all the way to the last page. I highly recommend this book and anything else this man has written.
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  KillerBunny

  Goddamn, wow!
  A dark thriller, a splatterpunk novel, a brutal and fast-paced read. I really loved it, it was so fucking good, the ending totally got me.
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  Lindsay Crook

  pokey sticks all round
  
  Oh this was a twisty turny tale. From the first page you get feelings for the characters and those feelings change and grow throughout the whole book. Ash gets better with each story. He gets darker and grittier with both humour and gore.
  I said it before but I still want more full length novels.
  
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  Stephen Cooper

  Dark intriguing mystery that keeps you on your toes while creating interesting and broken characters. Loved the short sharp sentences, really good style of writing. Overall found both the writing and the story really good and looking forward to checking out more of his work in the future.
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  Nemo ☠️ (pagesandprozac)

  This was actually... tamer than I was expecting, for an extreme horror.
  
  "What the fuck, Nemo?!" you say. "A dude fucked a fucking head!"
  
  I mean, yeah, the dude did fuck a fucking head, but most of the murders and assaults faded to black before the, y'know, really grody shit. Not that that's a bad thing, necessarily, it just... I mean, the book's called Extremities but it wasn't... THAT extreme? I mean, the head was, but everything else wasn't, really. Also, the sex scenes were pretty boring, which is quite a feat in a novel about sex addicts.
  
  I probably sound like some sort of psycho pervert now. Great.
  
  Anyway. Repetitive scenes, no real mystery, but it was kinda compelling and fun, so 3 stars.
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  Baldy Reads

  Started out strong but quickly became disjointed. The chapters alternated between three storylines. I could see what Ericmore tried to do—to create a cohesive link between the three stories—but it just didn’t work for me.
  
  And, holy shit was there a lot of sex. The scenes toed the line between raunchy and erotic—which is fine, but sometimes it felt like reading Fifty Shades and not an extreme horror novel.
  
  Not sure if I’ll pick up another Ericmore book, and unfortunately can’t recommend this. But who knows, you might really like this you weirdo 🤷‍♂️
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  Carrie Shields

  2.5 stars rounded up only for the amazing beginning chapters.
  
  This book had so much promise. The opening chapters were filled with so much promise and centered around Tilly and her infant brother Thomas, whom she hated. Both live with a drunken whore of a mother who regularly neglects the kids and entertains a different man every night of the week. Tilly thought there was enough attention to go around until Thomas arrived, and she resents his very presence. Tilly commits of act of violence against her two family members, and then the book turns to present day, where things quickly get confusing.
  
  There are several unlinked, disjointed stories in this book that I know the author meant to come together into a cohesive final product, but it just didn't work for me. What was set up to be a case study into what happens to kids who are raised by abusive, neglectful mothers was left by the wayside. I'm a big horror reader and have zero triggers, but the amount of gratuitous sex in this book was eye-rolling and added nothing to the plot.
  
  I really wish the entire book kept the momentum that it started with; if so, this would have easily been a five star read.
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  Ashley Twardy

  Really dark and brutal serial killer story filled with blood-soaked pages and depravity. The writing was very good and the story kept me hooked. The characters were well fleshed out (no pun intended 👻) and this was a very unnerving read. I couldn’t put it down.
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  Sharon Leung

  Exciting
  
  This was an enjoyable exciting thriller with some extreme violence. Tilly is a messed up character. A young girl coming from a broken home growing up after a tragic childhood into a bright young woman. Then her friends ask her on a night out and things begin to change for her. From that day her whole perspective on life changes. During all this there is a seriously sick killer roaming the area killing young woman, known as the debt collector. As a child Tilly had a younger brother Thomas but tragic circumstances takes him away from her as well as her mother. An exciting compelling read that keeps you entertained and enthralled throughout. Recommended fully.
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  Daniel Lorn

  This has been on my list for a while & I am very pleased I gave it a read.
  Extremities is a bleak & gritty thriller with lots of sex & extreme violence!
  This book sucked me in immediately with the extremely promising opening chapters. Although I did manage to work out where this very dark story was going, it didn’t stop me from admiring the wonderfully grim world the author created. Very nicely done!
  Ash Ericmore is a very talented writer who knows how to keep you turning those pages. I will definitely read more from this author.
  
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  Emily

  A fantastic fast paced read!!
  
  Harry stole my heart, the author did too! This scratched an itch! I need more Harry James!! Extreme gore and this will keep you on the edge of your seat!!
  
  Body parts mysteriously start getting round, who is the death collector? Will someone else get the blame for the death collectors heinous crimes?
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  Tracy Halls

  interesting storyline....
  
  Interesting storyline but feel it could have been developed more, lots of sex scenes that were there for the sake of it, I'm not against sex scenes far from it but there just seemed to be to many pointless ones in this book and not enough background/story!
  
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  Nicole Oring

  This was my first Ash Ericmore read, and I am quite disappointed. I found this story to be incredibly slow paced, poorly developed, and downright boring. There is a lack of cohesiveness in the storytelling that makes it feel choppy and uninteresting.
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  Mysteriousenchantment

  The was my first DNF. I couldn’t read this. The sentences were extremely choppy and I had somebody tell me how it ended and it made no sense since the killer was somebody that I only one at the time of the fire
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  Kadlin

  Great read! Recommend
  
  People should be more careful. They thought their back gardens were safe places. He shook his head and slipped into the kitchen. Had the rag dowsed in a cocktail of drugs stuffed in his pocket. Push it over her face. Take her. She was finally his.
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  Ricky Solis

  ore ericmore
  
  As usual, fantastic fast paced brutality. Tons of gore and twists with depraved humour mixed in. Old school detective vibes with Texas chainsaw massacre as a backbone