 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome to my inner sanctum. This is my bedroom and This is where I'm gonna have to film for a little while. So please excuse the very generic background We will be back in the new well, we will be in the new studio slash office Hopefully next week. I don't know. I apologize for my absence. Also, literally we've been moving all this stuff Boxes and just getting the office built and all that stuff. So thank you for being patient. Anyways on with the review today we are talking about dead inside by Chandler Morrison Okay Hopefully this will be one of those reviews that One of these negative reviews that sells the book Do I recommend the book hell? No, I don't recommend the book if you go on to Goodreads If you read any reviews, everybody is saying they don't recommend the book Because to recommend this book would be to recommend some of the most vile content I have ever read or seen this book is on par with a Serbian film I Only have one good thing to say about it and I've taken my time. I finished this early January is one of my first First books that I finished this year and the very first thing the only positive thing I have to say is that it is Very well written I never wanted to put it down because of the writing because of the voice or anything like that But I look for three things in a book and at the end of the day It did not deliver on two major ones and the content We'll get to that because I'm gonna talk about it in spoilers So for those of you who want to know whether or not I recommend it I do not recommend it, but if I know my fans like I know my fans or my viewers, whatever you want to call yourselves This will make you go out and buy the book. Anyways, so the writing is fantastic There's nothing wrong with the writing the audiobook is well produced I got it free in exchange for this review that you're watching now Anyways, let's just go ahead and get right in To the nasty stuff so everything from this point on is going to be a spoiler if you've not read the book I am going to spoil everything for you So I highly suggest that you if you haven't read it You don't need to be here If you're planning to read it if you have no plans to read it then fine hang around The book the book follows a main character who is a necrophiliac He's a security guard at a hospital. So he has access to bodies all the time There are some very I don't know some very unbelievable scenes Where like one person is dying in bed and she's like I love being raped so please, you know Rape my corpse or whatever It just wasn't believable not that it was over the top or that you know is Offensive because it was rape or anything is not really rape because she's consenting that kind of thing I don't know man. It just it just felt silly It felt forced and that's like this. That's the smallest of my complaints The story escalates when he meets a pediatrics OBGYN so I can't remember. I like I said I finished it over a month ago meets and she has Her her quirk is she likes eating babies dead babies. So There's several scenes of eating infants, there's several scenes of necrophilia a very very Very very in-depth description Morrison was obviously I hope I'm getting his name right. I forgot to look before it's either Morrison or Morgan I apologize that the author watches this He's got other things he's gonna have problems with so The There's one scene in particular that really harkened back to a Serbian film was it worse than a Serbian film I don't know. It's on par. I mean trash is trash, right? There's a scene where he's The necrophilia is having sex with the dead baby And it's just I don't know. I don't care to read that stuff You know, it's just not something it wasn't really offensive or true. It's like why I just I don't I don't care But the the thing escalates to this to this ending that Was phoned in right from the time that the husband is Is introduced even though you don't know it's the husband, you know, it's the husband But the more I think about it the more the more upset I am about how derivative it is It it feels like Clive Clevenger and Chuck Pollanick, but without the depth of those two authors It just feels like at this point That you know and here's coming from me the guy who wrote South of here and betting on boys and all that stuff It just feels like at this point We're just trying to out offend each other the more that people are worried about triggers And I'm one of those people. I have my own triggers So I'm not denouncing that what I'm getting at is the more people, you know Complain about no trigger warnings or they want trigger warnings that kind of thing It seems like the more people are pushing those boundaries I put trigger warnings in my novel South of here. This book definitely needs them There were certain there were certain scenes That it just went on too long it got to a point where I Became desensitized and then you know automatically and sorry about the light I know it's dark in here can't do anything about that because if I turn on the one light that I have The the whole image is going to be blown out so What they're just I don't know that there was a lot of redundant stuff. It's it's almost like it's a Romance, I think even they describe it as an auto as an erotic romance or something like that There's nothing romantic about this book There's nothing erotic about this book unless you fancy, you know screwing dead people or eating babies or any of that kind of thing I guess there's a little bit of the outliers Coming together, you know outcasts meeting up and whatnot Whatever it but the the main thing the reason why I'm gonna give this one star instead of the five because I said I was stuck between one and five the content. I Really like when authors push bound boundaries But this felt like that was the whole purpose of the story. So the more I thought about it and the more Derivative I found it especially with invisible monsters I mean, there's whole scenes taken out of invisible monsters that are in here almost note for note It's just you know, of course to change the characters change the scenery that kind of thing But it's the same setups It did feel a lot like Clive Clevenger like the contortionist handbook I remember reading that one and he sounds Chandler Morrison sounds much more like Clive Clevenger than Chuck Pollinick But Clive Clevenger is nowhere near as big as Pollinick I think he only has think Clevenger only has two books out, but whatever up this author obviously wears His inspirations on his sleeve and good for you for writing something Appalling I don't I don't know what I don't I don't know I don't know the intention of this So I can only go with what I felt in the story if there was more. Oh, yeah And there was a strong fight club just a Pollinick vibe to the whole thing where it's like, you know Don't be a don't be a lemming in society that kind of thing. It's just so many other books have done that concept better And we're more shocking than this one Because you actually cared about the characters or you understood the characters and their motivations in this one the characters felt flat for me Everything felt like the plot was racing forward and that's fine but So it's paced. It's paced wonderfully. I look for character dread and pacing. It's paced wonderfully I didn't have any dread because he phoned in the twist way too early I mean as soon as it came up. I was like, okay, though, that's definitely it's definitely her husband And that's his baby and you know, she's gonna end up cutting yourself open eating the baby and he's gonna fuck her corpse I mean, there's there's no where else for this to go, right? So I But again, it's just the kind of content that I feel like a lot of you out there are gonna watch this review and run out And buy it. It's just that it's not I don't see the point of it And I know you don't really have to see the point of something to enjoy it or you know, whatever But this one it felt derivative. It was full of redundancies. Just the same thing over and over and over again. Thank fuck It was short. It's only like a four-hour audio book So here's where I'll start stop. I don't really don't know what else to say about this I didn't enjoy it whatsoever. So that's another reason why I'm leaning it leaning to one But I didn't just not enjoy it because of the content It had a lot to do with just the same thing over and over again and knowing where we were going So but have you read this book dead inside? What did you think of it? Most horror fans absolutely love it because they're looking for that kind of content I am not looking for that kind of content The dread was absolutely killed by the predictability of it The characters stunk I thought and they weren't not just because they were terrible people, but I just I didn't give a shit I just didn't But if you read it, let me know what you thought about it down there in the doobly-doo for stuff like this Please remain respectful. If not, I'll just remove you and then hide you from the channel And you'll be screaming into the void, but uh, yeah, just leave your comments down there in the doobly-doo Let me know if I I mean I've heard from people who liked it But is there anybody else out there who didn't like it if you didn't? Definitely hit me up down there in the doobly-doo, but until next time I have any you've been you. This has been another book review I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye