Rayne Havok

An Anthology of short stories written by Rayne Havok, which are all pretty good and have a bit more depth in them than I expected. Continue the review to read the descriptions and themes in each story - but there will be spoilers with the themes listed in each story.

Boys will be Boys - when a group of teen boys who decided to go "a-raping" meet a group of girls who just want to enjoy a hike - Psychological, Horror, Rape, Abuse

The Other Place - a young woman takes over her deceased mothers New Age shop and isn't as nice as we thought she was, and seems to attract the wrong types of elements - but fits right in with them - Erotic, Paranormal/Supernatural, Splattergore, Dark Humor

Tantalize - A neighbor who really is a "nice guy" ends up becoming obsessed with his married female neighbor - Psychological, Rape, Horror, Stalking

Killstreme - (No longer available at Amazon in it's single story format) - when a guy who is obsessed with snuff films receives an invitation to star in one - Psychological, Horror/Splatter horror/Extreme Horror, Rape, Torture

Daddy Issues - an older man decides to get back in the saddle and goes out with a much younger girl he meets online - Erotic, Psychological, Incest Taboo

Necrosis - I didn’t really read that one in full, but skimmed it enough to get the themes - Horror, Psychological, Erotic, Paranormal/Supernatural, Splattergore
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Goodie! This will mark as my first book read for the Bizarro book club.

Now, as for the story, it's nothing spectacular: a pulpy short-story made for paperback. It isn't trying to make itself out more than it needs to be, which I appreciate, but that means there isn't a whole lot to appreciate either.

The only scene that really got to me was hearing what "socking" means (God socking's horrifying). "[they] open up your asshole... make [a three-inch] incision... and push [a] dildo [through the taint incision and] into [your] cock, like a foot in a sock -- a sock-cock (Havok, Page 53). But, since the book only prides itself off of shock-value, there isn't much else that's able to compete with... that.

It's average, plain and simple. Feel free to read it if you want (you could probably take it all in one-sitting if you cared to), but I wouldn't go out of my way to recommend this, neither to a fan of this kind of thing or otherwise.

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