Husk

Rachel Deering — 2016

In this all-too-real work of horror fiction, Rachel Autumn Deering explores the mind of a young man who is struggling to cope with the effects of post-war stress, drug addiction, self-doubt, and loneliness as they manifest themselves into his deepest, darkest fears. Kevin Brooks returns to his rural Kentucky hometown after a three-year-long tour of duty in Afghanistan. He has lost the grandparents who raised him, his lifelong best friend, and his trust in the government he once proudly served. When Kevin meets a kind, young girl named Samantha, he thinks his luck might have finally taken a turn for the better. But something else has its eye on Kevin. Something dark and brooding and mean. Something that knows Kevin better than he knows himself.

Reviews

Sade A@bitterblue

Jan 19, 2023

❤ I geniunely believe horror is one of the hardest genre for writers' to pull off. I also geniunely believe that if a book is scary, you will know. This book is described as "horror fiction" and i don't know if whoever wrote that blurb was having a laugh or the person for real believed that this book...this book i just read is horror. ❤❤ For what purpose this book was written i don't know. If the writer was trying to get across the message of soldiers suffering from PTSD after war this was, i can't even lie, a very weird really weird way to go about it. ❤ If you're looking for a short scary book to read. This isn't the book. If you're looking for a book with some sort of crazy psychological exploit into the mind of someone suffering from PTSD, again, THIS IS NOT THE BOOK. Basically me at the end of this book: The only "horror" in this book is the "horror" of being labelled as one.