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Brew Kindle Edition

by Bill Braddock (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
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A college weekend turns into a bloody nightmare in this “heady mix of high-octane horror, razor-sharp characterization, and full-throttle action” (Tim Waggoner, author of Like Death).

Every Saturday night during football season, College Heights is overrun by a frenzy of hard-partying students. For the local brewery, it’s a recipe for success. For many others, it’s a disaster waiting to happen. But this Saturday night is different. Because instead of beer-pong and karaoke, College Heights is about to become a maelstrom of arson, murder, and cannibalism.

One minute, everyone’s having a blast. The next minute, the crowded bars, balconies, and house parties look like so many acres of hell. Now a charismatic drug dealer, a disenfranchised army vet, and a smart, tough-as-leather girl must struggle to survive. Meanwhile, a brilliant, demented sociopath gleefully strolls the chaos, fulfilling sadistic fantasies.
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  5. Publication date
    August 26, 2013
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About the Author

Former stonemason and barman, Bill Braddock lives with his wife and his animals west of Philadelphia, on a hill that served as a point of approach for the British during the Battle of Brandywine. His favorite writers are Stephen King, Jack Ketchum, Richard Laymon, Elmore Leonard and Cormac McCartyhy . In addition to reading and writing, Bill likes chess, peppers ... and beer.

--This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09GB6DJTM
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Permuted Press (August 26, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 26, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1000 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 310 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 93 ratings

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Bracken MacLeod
5.0 out of 5 stars Craft Brew
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2013
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Bill Braddock's BREW is a note-perfect survival horror novel that starts with a keening air horn wail like a call to prayer in Hell and steamrolls on for the next three hundred pages without mercy. This is how it is done. Braddock displays a generous sense of humor (his titular brew is locally known as "Cougar piss") and gives a clear nod to influences like Edward Lee, Jack Ketchum, and film-maker, Stuart Gordon. But don't dismiss this book as fratboy gross-out without substance. Braddock draws from Cormac McCarthy's playbook as well when he delves deep into the memory of his well-drawn characters to give the reader emotional resonance to keep the horror alive well into the last act. Don't believe me? "...he stood at the edge of the creek and stared at the changes wrought by the passing waters. Streamside trees were snapped to stumps beneath palpable vacancies where once had towered oaks and sycamores of great size and incalculable age. Below these, further change in the creek itself, where disgorged stones, massive and monolithic, canted at strange angles like pagan gods of tribes long vanished, pediment now only to muddy banks laid raw, where pendulous roots hung half-revealed, like the emboweled secrets of the world." Braddock writes with immediacy, unflinching honesty, and heart enough for the end of the world. Don't underestimate BREW because it's a book about beer that drives people crazy. This isn't just some flavorless, cheap swill; this is craft BREW, rich and made with the finest ingredients. Be warned though. It ain't lite. You better be ready for something that will knock you on your ass.
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Christine
4.0 out of 5 stars From "The Horror Fiction Review"
Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2013
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In retrospect, I shouldn’t have read this one mere days before seeing my only child leave for college … as if the prospect wasn’t daunting enough already, now I can have the beer apocalypse to worry about!

Brew is the story of one bad night in a college town, where pretty much everyone supports the team as well as the local microbrewery. On a Saturday night after a game, the celebratory revel is in full swing. The clubs and bars are packed, there’s partying in the streets, a wild time will be had by all. Drugs of many descriptions, and lesser booze, take a backseat to Cougar Beer consumed in, as the old show says, mass quantities.

Just their luck, or unluck, that a group of would-be activists have decided to pull a little attention-getter prank to shock people out of their complacency. They’ve slipped something into the current batch of Cougar Beer, a timed chemical cocktail that kicks in with no warning and the force of an asteroid strike.

In an instant, it’s violence and mayhem, bloodshed and murder. Drinking buddies one second, tearing each other’s faces off or throats out the next. Mindless madness, hyped-up psychotic maniacs foaming vivid green at the mouth and feeling no pain as they attack anybody in their path …

The few who abstained or went with some other beverage of choice are suddenly surrounded by a chaotic storm of crazy destruction. For them, it’s a matter of trying to survive and escape, not to mention trying to figure out what’s going on. Friends, relatives, neighbors, complete strangers, it doesn’t matter.

Needless to say, this effect wasn’t quite what the activists were going for, but it’s a bit late for backsies as they, too, are caught in the carnage. The one person who did know what to expect is quite prepared to make the most of it, enjoy the spectacle and seize the opportunity to settle old scores.

All in all, it’s pretty damn gripping and pretty damn ruthless, reminiscent of Richard Laymon’s One Rainy Night. But, as you sit down to enjoy it, you might want to re-think that nice cold beer …
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S. D. Beallis
3.0 out of 5 stars Good premise, lacks in execution for me...
Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2014
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I was going back and forth between 3 and 4 stars for this book. It's a sort-of-zombie story about violence erupting in a college town, centering on a bar (at first) where students are partying hard on football weekend. Some folks suddenly and seemingly all at once turn violent, turning on each other and on the people who don't turn violent, and suddenly the bar and the whole town are a war zone. The book follows some potentially very interesting characters as they fight their way through the mayhem and try to survive the night.

I give it 5 stars for the premise. It's a cool way to use the zombie thing in a different way than usual. But unfortunately for me, I felt like the book was too up-and-down. Some parts were paced really well, while others dragged as I read them and I just wanted to skip past them. Characters were introduced, then they disappeared from the narrative for one reason or another. (For example, there were these three girls who go to the bar, and two of them go crazy and the third one...nothing more.) Perhaps this touching-on-characters-then-forgetting-them pattern was by design, but it didn't work well for me. It dragged down the pace of the story for me and lost the flow of the narrative for me. Also, the way that backstory was revealed was awkward for me. Flashbacks came when they were critical to continuing the storyline, and they felt ... forced ... to me quite often.

Then the book picked up and kicked into high gear as the plot focused on some of the more important storylines, and I thought, we're back into 4-star territory. But then the end came and I wasn't thrilled with it. Can't say more without revealing important spoilers. So I'm going to stick with 3 stars and qualify it by saying that it is, for the most part, pretty solid writing, and it's a really good premise for a story, and if I could add a half-star I would. Usually I err on the side of "a little too high" with my ratings, but this one, I'm going to err to the low side.
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Audster
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in France on December 3, 2014
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Dans le genre zombie, mais qui vous tiendra en haleine, avec les description plutôt détaillée, on suit des histoires séparées sur un même évènement, vraiment très bien fait, je recommande
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the reader
5.0 out of 5 stars watch what you drink
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 7, 2014
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Don,t drink to much.enjoyable book eco terrorist poison beer as trying to get a message across did not go as planned will not give to much away worth reading,but not with a drink .recommended
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