Addiction is utterly terrifying

4.5 out of 5 stars

Each story really held it’s own in this book and really made for some terrifying (and sometimes almost too real) depictions of what addiction is like.  I’ve had friends who have died from overdoses due to addiction and it’s not easy to watch.  I cannot imagine living it (but I can a little better after reading this).

I wasn’t 100% sure what I was getting into when I first picked this book up.  I thought it was just another horror anthology, but I was dead wrong.  This is a collection of stories about addiction told as if they were a horror story (which they basically are).  You are no longer in control of your body — the addiction is.

I will tell you this about Garden of Fiends — it wasn’t easy to finish in one sitting.  Not because the stories weren’t good, but because they were too good.  They were so brutal and brutally honest that I found myself having to stop after each one to digest exactly what happened and how I felt about it.

Adding to a well-done collection of stories was the narration by Rick Gregory.  This is the first audiobook by him I’ve listened to and I loved it.  You can tell that Gregory has worked around, with, and through narrators for a long time because he really understands the nuances of what telling a great story are.

Overall, an enjoyable collection of short stories that easily could have been standalone stories.  I’m glad that Matthews put them all together though because I got to read them all in one spot.  After finishing this I went and hugged those who are close to me.

 

Book Description:

Garden of Fiends by Glen Krisch, Jack Ketchum, Jessica McHugh, Johann Thorsson, John F.D. Taff, Kealan Patrick Burk, Mark Matthews, Max Booth III
Narrator: Rick Gregory
Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
Published by Wicked Run Press on June 1, 2017
Genres: Horror
Also by this author: Body of Christ

 

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  1. As I was trying to say yesterday! This doesn’t sound like my cup of tea, BUT it does sound like it could be really interesting if done right!

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