Scared Sheetless Reviews: The Red Church

Scared Sheetless Reviews
The Red Church by Scott Nicholson

A new feature I want to try here at Scared Sheetless is book reviews. If you got a book that you want reviewed, send me a link of how to purchase it or if I can get it on my Ipad (I am a Kindle freak) and I'll read it as fast as I can and review it as fast as I can. I'm also going to do other books that I've read that I think should be reviewed. Keep in mind though, this is a paranormal site, so I want to stick with stuff like that. If I review your book and don't really give you the best review, please don't take it personally. The last thing I want to do is ruin someone's day and make them believe that they are not worthy. Look at it like drink products: one man who likes Pepsi may not have a taste bud for Coke. Doesn't mean Coke won't put a product that will satisfy him, it's just that he isn't a Coke guy. Alright, now that I absolutely confused the heck out of you on with the review!

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Now Scott Nicholson isn't a name that everyone knows; he's not a Stephen King or a Dean Koontz in terms of popularity, but I don't go by popularity. The man can write and he writes real well, keeps you interested in the story without having to go into great detail...a big plus for a guy like me who (hasn't been diagnosed) may have A.D.D. and my attention meter is like a pulse reading meter, but Nicholson has caught and contained my attention with two books I have read thus far.

I bumped into Nicholson's work without really looking for him. I got an Ipad and within that Ipad I got the Kindle app, so I was browsing for some books to put on there. I got Ozzy Osbourne's "Trust Me, I'm Doctor Ozzy" first, but I really wanted something spine tingling; something that would spark my attention, and I really like to read new authors, because these guys are the future. They are in the same boat as me; glancing at the high mountain of solace, but surrounded by rough tides and only given a row boat to get through them. I then found Ashes by Scott Nicholson and granted, short book, short stories, but they were good. They were some I liked more than others, but the key thing was I liked the book, and at the end of the book it told me to give another Nicholson book a try. So I searched and found The Red Church.

The name gives you goose bumps already, doesn't it? The Red Church. Is it a book about Satanic worshippers who eat the prey of the innocent and brain wash this little town into believing that the preacher is the son of God and Jesus Christ was a lost prophet? If you guessed that...You'd be right. Here's a little summary about it:

In a small town in North Carolina, there's this community of people: nice, everyday, wouldn't hurt a fly type of good folk, but where there is good, there is also evil lurking in the shadows. For decades the Red Church has been a site of death: to the younger brother of a Sheriff who was brutally killed. The memories still suffocating him like a noose made out of tranquility. To the murder of a preacher who can still sometimes been seen hanging there, dead, watching, and smiling. The rumors are shot down as ghost stories, but soon when a descendant of the Hanged Preacher comes back and murders start to happen immediately after, there's only one thing to do...Prey the thing with wings and claws and livers for eyes don't get you.

There, sounds pretty cool huh? Wish I could get a story like that to report on Scared Sheetless, but fiction does have a way of being scarier than what we know as "ghost facts". The only two church stories that are creepy that I can recall (though where they are escapes me) is one church where it had been gone for years, but if you go up to it and kick the foundation you will hear church bells going off. Another church story is this place that has now been renovated into a college campus and if you cuss you will get this soap type of taste. This is how the nuns of that former church used to handle curse words. Regardless, I'd deal with soap lathering on the tongue nuns than go to the Red Church any day!

My final verdict: The book was very good. It kept my interest and there was quite a few twists and turns to keep the story relevant. I loved the imagination and how he used a heavy amount of metaphors and similes to explain things. If you're looking for extreme gore, it doesn't really rely on that which is why I liked it. It was more of a thriller than a horror in my opinion and didn't rely so much on "how gross can I make this" that I think so many writers try to do. Very good book and I'm sure you'll be seeing more Scott Nicholson on the reviews!

For more on Scott Nicholson, check out his website at www.hauntedcomputer.com where you can find a whole arsenal of Nicholson's work as well as free stories. Also, I think it's safe to say he doesn't mind fans adding him on Facebook as a friend. I did and he's a very cool, down to earth type of guy, who even liked Scared Sheetless...and that's always a plus!

Want to get your hands on the Red Church and start reading on your device immediately? Here's the link for that by clicking here.

If you're a "I'd rather have the book in my hands type of person", he has it available in paperback as well by clicking here.