Thursday, August 17, 2017

Book Review: Love, Death and Other Lies by Jerome Sparks


















Love, Death and Other Lies
By Jerome Sparks
Genre: Horror, Supernatural, Thriller, Occult

During an ill-fated girls’ night out, still reeling from the loss of her husband, Liv Bestte meets a mysterious, old woman who promises to return her husband to her – for a price. It isn’t until the reanimated corpse of her late husband has begun terrorizing the hills and hollows around Julian, West Virginia, tearing flesh from bone, that Liv learns the price is her soul.

Now Liv is racing against time to find a way to satisfy this debt without sacrificing herself. And she soon learns that the only way she might escape her grisly fate is by offering up her daughter, Tegan, in her place.

But is it already too late for Liv? Is Liv’s fate sealed by family history? When Liv is about to make an ill-fated decision, it is Liv’s younger sister, Abby, who stands in her way, despite the fact that Abby was the first victim of the resurrected thing that was once Conner Bestte.

My Review

Author Jerome Sparks kicks off this story with a vengeance. From the gate, I knew something sinister was brewing in this complex plot. We meet Connor who is brought back to life after being brutally killed. As I got further into the story and learned more about Connor and his ways, I can't say I felt a lick of sympathy for him. The characters I did connect with were Roger, Abby, and Tegan. They made the story for me. I enjoyed watching the development of their relationships with each other. 

Life, Death, and Other Lies is gruesome, suspenseful, and will have you wondering who is going to meet their death next. It's text heavy, but the author kept me enticed and turning the pages until the very end. 5 stars!


About the Author 

Jerome Sparks is a native of West Virginia.  He majored in the highly unprofitable and nonspecific field of Creative Productions while attending the University of Charleston in Charleston, West Virginia.  Hoping to become a college professor, Sparks went on to earn a Master of Arts degree in Humanities, with a concentration in literary theory from the West Virginia Graduate College located in Institute, West Virginia.  But, after an unsuccessful attempt to teach English at the college level (for which he offers his most sincere apologies to his former students), Sparks took the easy out and pursued a J.D. from Tulane Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana.  Sparks called New Orleans home for several years, haunting the bars and bistros of the French Quarter, before finally following a girl back to West Virginia where he is currently practicing law.  (Yes, he married the girl.)  Sparks and his family now live happily in the West Virginia hills.

On Twitter: @Jerome_Sparks17
On Goodreads: http://bit.ly/2sTJeIG



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