Review: Grossly Unique!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 6, 2013
A young married couple, deeply in love, prepares for the joy of having their first child, and life is perfect. Cue the soft focus, birds chirping, happy sunshine, right? Nothing can ruin this time in their lives. Don't be too sure about that. Enter the vilest of evils, far beyond spinning head and projectile green vomit! We are not talking pregnancy hormonal changes or pre-fatherly fears, we are talking evil, dark, malevolent, foul.Nothing could have prepared me for Sow by Tim Curran. Nothing. If you're like me and tend to enter the world created by the author by jumping in with both feet, I suggest you watch where you step! Oh, and do NOT eat prior to or during the reading of Sow, and maybe you might want to hold your breath, close your eyes and stuff your ears with cotton! I swear I was in a nightmare I couldn't wake up from! Did I put the book down? Oh heck, no! Will I ever look at bacon the same? Probably not for a long time! As a matter of fact, Sow could be THE secret weapon in the battle to lose a few pounds, just read or think of one of many select passages and voila! No appetite!Tim Curran has a gift, a HUGE gift for building each scene and filling it with such graphic detail, the images will be forever burned into my mind, every hair, every fly, and every bodily fluid. The thoughts and actions of his characters had me giving mental advice, trying to will it through my Kindle. For imagination and execution Sow and Tim Curran deserve 5 stars, the creepy-gross-disgust factor alone is off the charts! So, you're all thinking I loved this book-NOPE, I loved the author's creative genius, and I'm going to take the average of the two ratings in my mind.An ARC edition was provided by NetGalley and Darkfuse in exchange for my honest review.