Perfect for the Halloween season, Hell Holes by Donald Firesmith.
I love the cover (by Ellie Kay Bockert Augsburger) and horror, so I was super excited to get a free copy from Amazon, but be sure and check for the ‘0’.
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MY REVIEW
Hell Holes by Donald Firesmith was everything I had hoped for and more.
They were asked by Exxon to come up and check out the Hell Holes that had become a threat to the pipeline. Stowaway photographer, Aileen O’Shannon, is quite a handful and so much more than she appears to be.
Have you ever thought about not just climate change, but all the holes we punch into the earth? Could we be destroying the planet we live on…or is there something else happening, something so monstrously evil we cannot imagine.
What had been a secret, which I love to have revealed to me, was on the verge of becoming Armageddon. Bloody, gory, slasher type horror. Demons rise from hell, hungry and I sure don’t want to meet them on a dark lonely highway…or anywhere else, for that matter.
Characters fall, so be careful who you become attached to. I love when an author does that, leaving me wondering who will be taken out, how they will be taken out, and who will be left standing. I also love when an author can surprise me and I did not see the direction the story would go when I began. Nice job, Donald.
I wasn’t ready for the ending!!!!! but end it did. Does not stand alone and I am left hanging…BUT This is a two book series, and Book II is out and ready for reading.
4 Stars
GOODREADS BLURB
It’s August in Alaska, and geology professor Jack Oswald prepares for the new school year. But when hundreds of huge holes mysteriously appear overnight in the frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, Jack receives an unexpected phone call. An oil company exec hires Jack to investigate, and he picks his climatologist wife and two of their graduate students as his team. Uncharacteristically, Jack also lets Aileen O’Shannon, a bewitchingly beautiful young photojournalist, talk him into coming along as their photographer. When they arrive in the remote oil town of Deadhorse, the exec and a biologist to protect them from wild animals join the team. Their task: to assess the risk of more holes opening under the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and the wells and pipelines that feed it. But they discover a far worse danger lurks below. When it emerges, it threatens to shatter Jack’s unshakable faith in science. And destroy us all…
Hell Holes, Book I: What Lurks Below was FREE at time of posting.
This has been on my wishlist for a while now. Not sure when I’ll get to grab it but I like the sound of it!
Glad to hear it. Well worth the read and I surely want the next one.
This sounds very good – I may have to add book one to my tbr! 🙂
Well worth it. Happy reading, Lauren.
this looks just like the kind of book I like! Natural disaster [or kinda] mixed with something supernatural [had to be right? since it shatters his “unshakable faith in science.”!] and the world will be destroyed! HELL YES!
LOL It hit all my buttons too.
I had a blast with this one. Just grabbed the second book so I can share a review for October. So glad you liked it too, Sherry.
Always looking for something a bit different and this blends a couple of my favorite genres in a fantastic way.