Begin Your Journey With Brother Penned By Ania Ahlborn Accessible As Digital Format

disturbing, gutwrenching and violent, Brother is perfect for extreme horror enthusiasts, but only those who are not afraid to explore the slimiest, most terrifying corners of human soul.
You will feel filthy and hollowed out when you're done, you will need a long, hot shower and you will never I repeat: NEVER get this story out of your head.
Be warned: proceed with caution,

After reading Ahlborn's previous book, Within These Walls, I already knew she writes exactly my flavor of horror, She quickly became one of my favorite writes and made my "autobuy" list, I can't believe that I am saying that, but after reading Brother, I think I love her even more than I love my one and only undisputed king of horror: Stephen King.
But maybe "love" is not the right word exactly I am full of respect for this woman, but I am also shitless scared of her,

Brother is, hands down, the most disturbing, appalling, gutting story I have ever read, It got me more than Elizabeth Scott's Living Dead Girl, and if you've read that one, you know just how fked up it was, Well, Brother takes that mindfuckery to a whole new level of mental and emotional slaughterhouse, I kid you not, this book is powerful, and therefore, dangerous, I guess some people will be affected by it more than others, because it totally depends on your level of empathy and at what point in life this book will find you.
If you're emotionally vulnerable, depressed or if you're a new parent, you might seriously want to skip it for now and move along to something less threatening, This book is absolutely not for the squeamish or faint of heart, You need to have a strong stomach, too, or at least keep a bucket handy, And you can later thank me for warning you,

In the heat of the humid and sticky summer, we arrive at an isolated, old farmhouse in the middle of woods, far away from the rest of the world.
Where no one can hear the screams, And the screams are piercing, primal, and entirely hopeless,

Michael was "adopted" by the Morrows when he was onlyor so years old, Rebel found him at the corner of his yard, trying to sell some of his old toys, They took him, they renamed him, and they told him he's lucky to have a new family, because his old family did not want him anymore, Michael's life became one, neverending nightmare,

I don't want to go too deep into discussing the plot line, because this book is constructed in a way that requires the reader to go in blindfolded.
That's the only way you can fully appreciate the masterful foreshadowing and intensely creepy atmosphere of the story, What you need to know, though, is that Brother is a book strictly for adults and should be read by adults only, And that comes from someone who started reading Stephen King and Graham Masterton at the age of, but yes, while you can read the two aforementioned authors as a teen and get away mentally unscathed, you can't do the same with Brother.


As the author brings more light to the past secrets of the Morrow family, the atmosphere gets heavier, the mood darker, and the walls begin to close in on you.
I felt physically ill while reading this book, I did not cry or vomit though, honestly, I came pretty close to both, but that's only because I was too shocked and uneasy to even move a muscle, This is the first book that had me in invisible shackles that I could actually feel as they were weighing me down, I felt breathless not in a good way and stuck in a huge jar of molasses,

The terror of Brother is both gruesome and inyourface, as well as sophisticated and deliberately planned, This book will leave you not only terrified, but also changed, The darkness and hopelessness of the book is completely uncompromising, Up until the last seconds and against all odds, you're clinging to the faint hope that somehow it will turn out fine, even though deep inside you know better, And despite everything you've witness you can't bring yourself to feel angry at the characters, You can't bring yourself to hate them, Instead, you feel profoundly sad, beatendown, broken to pieces and ready to give up,

Brother filled my heart with rage and sorrow, A vicious cycle of hurt and violence, suffering and pain, And no hope. No hope at all .Stars
This is an incredibly dark story about a terrible family who does some terrible things, There is some gruesome situations with plenty of harm to women and animals, The novel reads like a slow burning character study, focusing on the interactions within this dysfunctional family, I never became fully immersed in the narrative, but readers with more interest in the southern rural stories may enjoy this one more than I did, While I enjoy reading dark stories, this novel demonstrated that simply containing "disturbing subject matter" is not enough to hook me into a narrative, : sitelink.at Amazon!

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I thought that this book was absolutely fantastic! I have not been so mesmerized by a book in a long time, This book was incredibly bloody, incredibly twisted, and just absolutely awesome, I realize that I almost missed out on this book, I didn't even take a second look at this title when it was on NetGalley, When I noticed a couple of great reviews on Goodreads, I put my name on the list at the local library because I am always ready for a great book.
If I had only known how good this one was going to be, I doubt that I would have waited nearly as patiently,

This is the story of Micheal and his family, the Morrows, This family is not your average family, Not at all. This family is a group of twisted sick people, The kind of people that you hope to never cross paths with during your lifetime, They live in a secluded house where it is easier to hide some of their hobbies from the general population,

Micheal seems like a rather nice guy, all things considered. Micheal spends the majority of his time with his brother, Reb, I really can't think of anything nice to say about Reb, He really has no redeeming qualities that I can think of, His sister, Misty, is really just trying to get through each day, Wade, the father, is quiet and really seems to be taking orders most of the time, Momma is unpredictable and frightening,

This book grabbed me on the first page, . . literally page! I found this story very hard to put down, There was a section where I wanted it to be just a little bloodier but I kept turning the pages and my wishes were granted, I was enjoying this nice bloody story when things took an unexpected twist, This story actually took several turns that I did not see coming, The way that the story ended was mind boggling,

I would highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys horror, There is a lot of blood and violence in this one so it may not be the perfect book for everyone but I found it to be a much welcome surprise.
This is the first book by Ania Ahlborn that I have read but I have already purchased a couple of additional titles that I hope to read soon,

Initial Thoughts
That was freaking fantastic! A bloody and twisted story that I loved every moment of, That ending absolutely blew me away, I honestly can't even think straight right now,.stars!

In her novel, BROTHER, Ania Alhborn takes a departure from the supernatural and gives us horrorboth physical and psychologicalfrom an all human source, The Marrows are a family residing in a secluded farmhouse, far in the Appalachiafar enough that nobody outside of the family can hear the screams, . . Although the mother, Claudia, and father, Wade are the "heads of the family", the eldest boy, Raywho prefers to go by the name of Rebelis more the actual leader when it comes to "little brother", nineteen year old, Michael.


Michael is not like the rest of his family, in more ways than one, He gets no joy in his family duties, but merely does as instructed, This is not much of a problem until Michael starts thinking of how it would be to have a different sort of life, when he meets Alice, . .

The depravity and accepted norms of this family had me reading through the pages practically wanting to scream at some of the characters to "get out of there now!" Even the flashbacks that the author uses to give us insight as to the family's earlier years, and how Michael came to be, were perfectly placed.
Rather than distract or take away from the momentum of the main tale, these snippets of the past served to give us a much greatereven more disturbinglook at the atrocities the Marrow family was capable of.
At one point I thought that I had figured outat least in partof what was in store for the ending,

It turned out to be so much more than that,

It's not often that I am so completely awed by the end of a horror novel, but this one took me to that extreme, An absolute mustread by author Ania Alhborn,

Highly recommended!TWISTED Stars for "Brother"! I loved it! Every once in awhile I venture out of my comfort zone and enter the dark genre of horror! I'm so glad I picked this book! Ania Ahlborn did a fantastic job in telling this crazy story!

The Morrow's are a dysfunctional family of serial killers living in the Appalachians of West Virginia.
They are all evil except for Michael, He has a heart and yearns to leave the family's psycho den after

he meets sweet Alice at the record store, The only problem is his complete psycho brother, Rebel, who is constantly breathing down his back!

Michael always felt different from the rest of the Morrow clan and through flashbacks we learn more about what the early years were like for him and why he is so different from the other Morrow children: Reb, Misty and Lauralynn.
This crazy book will keep you flipping the pages long into the night! It might even shock you in the end!

Highly recommended for fans of horror and people like me who want a little something different and are not too squeamish!

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