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Review of "The Spitting Post"

I love stories which are reminiscent of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ,   where a hero or heroine is whisked off to another land and you're not entirely sure whether what's happening is a hallucination, coma dream, or reality. While not a children's book, Jason R. Barden's The Spitting Post  is firmly rooted in that tradition. Our main character (or so we are led to believe) is in a car accident and wakes up in another world. He then embarks on a quest to find the love of his life, The Green Maiden, at a location she has specified. Somehow our main character has inhabited this world before, though he has no memory of it. The strength in this story lays with the gruesome details and imaginative antagonists the author developed to inhabit his imaginary world. The protagonist is propelled along on a series of quests, and this is a plot definitely driven by events, not by character development. My three biggest complaints are
JERSEY GHOULS A.L. Sirois Genre: Horror Publisher: Azure Spider Publications Publication Date: June 15, 2018 A disabled cop and his ex battle giant centipedes and ghouls in a small riverside community that's about to be flooded out. The rain-drenched riverside town of Sherwood's Landing, NJ is invaded by a species of centipede from Central America armed with psychedelic venom. Former cop Lafferty "Hoff" Hoffman and his ex-girlfriend Beatrice St. John are swept into terror as their neighbors are enslaved by a centipede-generated group mind. Those remaining free must band together to survive the onslaught of ravenous ghouls. Add to Goodreads Purchase Links Get the eBook copy of Jersey Ghouls for only 99 cents! Offer ends June 15, 2018. Available on Amazon.com Excerpt Terry Haggerty was no pushover. She had gone to work at sixteen to save money for college, which is where she met Rook. Before the kids came, they'd often spent weeke