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A review by charm_city_sinner
Merciless by Bryan Smith
5.0
Newlyweds Grant and Lindsey embark on a cross country trip where they plan to kidnap, torture, and murder a complete stranger as their wedding gift to each other. That's an intense enough starting point, but things almost immediately go wrong (in every sense of the word.
The level of violence, cruelty, and depravity in this book is like nothing I've ever read. I lost count of the number of times I had an actual vocal reaction to what I was reading.
Nothing was off the table here and it just kept escalating. You'd think the daughter's role in the story was essentially over after being forced to miscarry after repeated stomps to the stomach, but no. What she then does in a misguided attempt to escape is somehow worse.
What really makes this book phenomenal is the ending. There's no happy ending, which no one could be surprised at, but Smith manages to save the cruelest part of the story for the one person you were rooting for.
As my official entry into extreme horror. This was perfect. No notes!
The level of violence, cruelty, and depravity in this book is like nothing I've ever read. I lost count of the number of times I had an actual vocal reaction to what I was reading.
Nothing was off the table here and it just kept escalating. You'd think the daughter's role in the story was essentially over after being forced to miscarry after repeated stomps to the stomach, but no. What she then does in a misguided attempt to escape is somehow worse.
What really makes this book phenomenal is the ending. There's no happy ending, which no one could be surprised at, but Smith manages to save the cruelest part of the story for the one person you were rooting for.
As my official entry into extreme horror. This was perfect. No notes!