 Hello everybody, E here. I got a package. Alright, so today is a little different This is a book review not an unboxing, but it's both kind of so the author of this book was extremely cool and Allowed me to buy a signed copy off of him. Don't go harassing him for one I just want to tell y'all that he was nice enough to it's not like he didn't send me one You know just just because Actually paid for it, so don't go harassing him. I want to sign copy free sign copy of your book That is nice. So today we are talking about Hunter Shay's creature Yeah, this is the hardcover from flame tree press a little quick little note on flame tree press. I am extremely Impressed with the way they their first six books came out They had audio hardcover and paperback all at the same time Which is just fantastic. I don't know of another small press that has that has done that Yet maybe out there. I know dark fuse did hard covers also But I don't think they did paperbacks at the same time with flame tree press. They did all three Formats all at the same time very impressive But this one especially I want to talk about this one. I gave the book a chance. I'm a big fan of hunters Of course, there's been some of his books that I I didn't you know fan boy over but most of his stuff is Terrific the mail-over mail order Massacres to two of the ones the first one he released and the third one he released are terrific The one in the center was in but that's just my own personal taste Hit Jurassic, Florida We are always watching is another fantastic one Let's see here. What else can I talk about? There is there's one more that I read. I can't remember the name of right now. I'm sorry But I can't remember the name of it. I read so many books Everything's just kind of a blur sometimes, but this one's gonna stay with me for a while any time that I Fanboy this hard over a book I go and I check out the negative reviews because obviously I've missed something Obviously, there's a problem the majority of the reviews for this book are positive the only negative review I could find mentioned that they were tired of all of the the continuous Pain talk or how many ways can you describe somebody being in pain? I'm gonna tackle that right now because Hunter did a fantastic Fantastic job with that aspect of it as someone who's been suffering with chronic pain and Due to one injury back in 2005. I have dealt for the past 13 years with constant Constant pain. I'm always either I either have my 10s unit on or I have my I have pain medicine coursing through my system. I always have an approximate in my system Italenal everything I'm always trying to stay on top of it So it doesn't get too bad and I end up in the emergency room needing a shot Or my doctor's office one of the other the way Hunter describes the pain I don't know about the the affliction that the main character is suffering from but I know from personal experience Hunter nailed it. So I don't know Hunter if you go through if if you're watching this if you ever watch this I don't know if you watch reviews, but or even read reviews, but You got it, right? So I don't know if you went if you go through the same kind of thing. Also, I don't know, but you nailed the aspect I don't know about the medical side of what she was suffering from but I do know that from a pain sufferer standpoint you nailed what it feels like and It was painful to read and yes, it was a bit repetitive and monotonous at points But that's what we suffer with that's the kind of repetition. You know, we wake up in pain We go to bed in pain It's pain throughout the day and as far as how he described the pain I thought he did a damn good job for a book that is hang on here. This is a beautiful book by the way 275 pages long and almost every single page I would imagine I've read this in audio book. We'll get to that in a second Um, I would imagine every single page has something to do with the main characters pain If it's not mentioned by the main character, it's mentioned about the main character And I also appreciated the way that the people around her reacted to her pain Especially the the fever sections where they question her sanity There's been some times when I've been in so much pain that my body fought fought back and raised the the temperature of my body It's just a stress reaction really And I was talking out of my head So I understand all the points It was very realistic in that regard as far as the audio book versus the written I can't say how well the book was edited. Nobody has mentioned typos or anything like that so I don't know but the The audio book was terrific. I listened to it. I enjoyed the narration It was somewhere in between So the quality was somewhere in between indie and you know legacy press So I guess it would be right there right in the middle with small press There were a few hiccups a few points where maybe the voices didn't match from the last time, but I Lost myself in the story. I think that's the most important thing that you can say about a story Is whether or not you were able to escape and I myself was able to escape I am very impressed and this is like the fourth time I've said impressed with Hunter's maturity in this novel now if you guys have read any of hunter's other stuff other than we are always watching that was a great non I think be rated kind of thing because he does be rated very well. He does Monster and creature features stuff like that. He's probably the best working in the business right now but the Oh the Mac the the swamp massacre one I read that one also I can't remember the name of that one I'm sorry. I apologize hunter if you're watching. I'm sorry But he does those things really well, but you would you would you might think that that's always capable of And it'd be unfortunate if you thought that because and I've read some reviews that have said as much But I don't agree with that and books like this the reason why I don't agree with that He spends the first what two-thirds of the book just talking about the characters It's almost Stephen King-esque in that regard where he builds up the characters He builds up your appreciation for them and maybe even makes you love them care for them and then bad things start happening Speaking of those bad things boy. This one threw me for a loop. I was not expecting I was expecting a monster, of course I was not expecting the monster I got and I certainly wasn't expecting The twist between Well, I'm not gonna say a word. There's a bit of a twist at the end Regarding the creatures origins and that kind of thing that I was like I've only heard or read or seen something like that one time and unfortunately I can't talk about that because if I talk about that then what what I what I've what I've seen before that's like this It's gonna spoil the whole book for you. It's just something I don't see very often and I appreciated it It was a very original take on a very overused trope and I think that was awesome I really don't have anything negative to say about the book The only thing that I'm not a hundred percent positive on is the actual You know how the formatting and all that stuff of the book But that I mean when you get lost in the story like that usually that stuff just kind of fades away I know some of you take a Bigger, you know, that's a bigger part of the reading experience for you But I did audiobook so I can't talk about it. It could be perfect, you know The as soon as I was done with this book I contacted Hunter on Twitter and I said yo, man, you need to send me a Sign copy. I don't care what what I have to pay for it. Oh, I got a nice little bookmark, too I haven't even opened it yet as you can see I just opened up the package, but uh, yeah, so yeah, e Keep kicking ass and taking names Hunter Yeah, that's awesome. Thanks Hunter. I appreciate it man. If you ever watched this But I tried to be as unbiased as possible with with this review I am I was a little standoffish whether or not I was gonna go into too much detail here because Hunter reviewed the bedding of boys and he loved it. He gave it five stars and that's one of my books So I'm always a little tentative And hesitant to review works, but I was a hunter fate shave and long before he ever read me I have reviews up both to the positive and to the negative for Hunter's books So if you want to go check those out, you can always go to my Goodreads and pick those out I really love this one. There is no biased as far as review swapping or any of that nonsense There is a little bit of bias because he is a He is a favorite author of mine in that regard because he does what he does so damn well And it's nice to read a more Character-oriented piece from him then let's say something like the middle order massacre Which is simply there for you to have fun with and like I said the first one the one about the the nuts sea creatures, but the one about the The oh, I can't remember what they're called They do it in that and then like the back of comic books Anyways, and then the one in the middle was the one about the x-ray specs It wasn't all to my liking and then the last one that he did was really good. Sorry I can't remember any of these titles, but but I promise you that hunter Shae's work is definitely worth checking out Especially if you like be rated creature features if you are more of the mindset that you like a more mature Experience then I would definitely say look up. We are always watching or creature his Actually, it's not his newest release. He's got another one out now called the devil's fingers that I didn't even know about so I just saw that on Twitter today. This has been a long and rambling review basically guys I'm giving the book five stars. I hope that you guys read it I hope you give it a chance and I hope you have the same experience. I did but if you didn't that's fine Let's discuss it down there in the comments below until next time I have been E you've been you this been another book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye