PinkPanthress's Reviews > Our Fathers' Burden

𝗜 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸.
𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿, 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗴𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸!

Harry Denmon was done going to the the Woods every year with his Dad and their friends. He didn't care for the tradition of the 'Annual Hunting Trip'.
But years later his father Don dies and leaves Harry a shoebox, in it are five Cassette Tapes
and a carefully folded piece of paper in which Don explains that his last wish for Harry is to keep the Tradition at all costs.
And that as soon as the 5 men are together (and have set up camp at their typical hunting spot) they each need to listen their Tapes.

So Harry invites the other four men up into the Appalachian Mountains, all of them are the Sons of his late father's hunting buddies. Bob Winter, Dave Keller, Lou Richards & Dennis Short will be Part of this game.
They will meet there for the Trip, but with one exception… Instead of going to their typical hunting site on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, they will meet there on the Day after Thanksgiving.
New Generation… new twist on a Tradition. What could go wrong, right?

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The Book started slow enough and with a flashback into the Year 1993 (for me personally a Year of Desaster!)
And then after a fat Bang… it all goes down. (In a good way, mind you)

To our 'amusement', the five men are given a hard time by the Author and definitely not enough munition to face this shitty Situation in which they find themselves very quickly.

I liked the fact, that we could see a change in their Characters in the Course of this Book. Gray did very well to capture these changes!
My very personal favourite out of these guys was Bob, don't ask me why exactly but I was rooting for him all the time!
Though, at one Scene I was even sorry for the one of the bigger Arseholes out of these 5 blokes, the way the Author wrote that Scene had something inside me feel sorry for him.

The story itself, hmm… it was not wholly what I was thinking to find BUT in the End it worked out for me very well.
You get good old-school Horror and even a 'Flashback' to 1987 (another 'Desaster Year' of mine. Thank you Mr. Gray. Are you a Psychic?).
You get Fear and Panic, you get lots of Blood, you get Monstrosities in the Dark. What else could one wish for?

Now quickly onto something else regarding the Book. I liked³ the Interior Art, how sections and scene changes in the Chapters were separated with Cassette Tapes. Loved it!!

A 5 Full 🌟 Rating here on GR!

𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝑯𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒓 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝒊𝒕, 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒆!


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