Son of The Slob

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This is gross. Vile. Upsetting. Graphic. Depressing. Nauseating. Tragic. Insert 57 other disturbing adjectives here. The story takes place eight years after the events of The Slob. Vera is the loving mother of Harold. He’s a seven year old child with a peculiar and unique body. He has issues which don't allow him to go to school. He needs special care, very special. So he was placed under Sister Doomus's tutelage; she's an evil deviant old woman, who likes to do, questionable things with her rosaries . Muahaha!! Muahaha!! Muahaha!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣😈 You’ll have to discover it, like I did. But just let me tell you, this Harold boy, is so disgusting you can’t even imagine it. My empathy for him died, even before it had a chance to live, when I watched him play by himself through his mother eyes. Then he disgusted me even more when I watched him play with rats, which are his favorite pets, (sort of😆) through Daniel’s eyes .

The character of Vera Harlow is one of survival. When an accidental meeting landed her in The Slob’s filthy abode of horrors, she battled tooth and nail to free herself from his grasp. She managed to get away from the terrible scenario, but the memories of her ordeal are permanently imprinted on her body and mind.LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON? Vera Harlow is a survivor. After a chance encounter led to her being held captive in a disgusting house of horrors, she fought tooth and nail to escape the clutches of a man known only as The Slob. But while she may have fled the disastrous situation, the details of her struggle are now carved into her flesh and soul. The answer, I am sad to say, is NO! If I don’t make a shopping list, I never remember shit or, in this case, things related to shit. Also, it will not be possible to separate it from the original story, so I am not allowed to tell you “It is not as good as…” – nothing is and I doubt ever will be, because I didn’t expect such a powerful story, which was part of the magic. I didn’t think I could read anything more disgusting or disturbing than The Slob, but Aron Beauregard has outdone himself with Son of the Slob.

Vera, Daniel and Harold live in filthy, disgusting, rat infested, grime-filled conditions but, whilst Vera is doing her best to keep the family afloat Daniel, her disabled and troubled husband, is struggling to the point of going under. Then, there is 7 year old Harold - 'Son of Slob', the podgy, overgrown freaky kid that provides the ultimate challenge for his downtrodden, despairing parents. Far from being a normal young boy, Harold has very special needs and exhibits such alarming, disturbing behaviour that professional help is now most urgently required before matters degenerate to even lower levels of depravity and to such an uncontrollable and unmanageable situation, which bottoms out to truly horrific and horrendous proportions, that matters cannot be rectified. Yep, loved 'The Slob' and loved 'The Son of Slob' too, so cannot wait to find out what the master, that is AB, has in store for us next. Vera's son is the product of utter depravity. Harold, the sinister seed left by the man who took everything from her, continues to blossom in nauseating fashion. His features and habits are stomach-churning, vividly familiar, and becoming more disturbing by the day. Determined to coax out the bright side of her child that she sees an occasional glimpse of, Vera strives for normalcy. But will the faint light she's chasing shine through the darkness or will she be left cleaning up another gruesome mess? Truly, a journey to savour, and smell and taste and feel...the pure disgusting, filthy baseness of it all. This book will hurt you. This book will tap into your deepest fear and all the things you dread. You will open yourself up to it and it will take that opportunity to break your heart and leave you without second thought. You’ll love this book, and miss it when it’s over.Personally, I was more interested in the commentary of war and the mental health critique. They actual marry beautifully (if anything can be called beautiful in that novel.) The psychiatrist was infuriating to say the least, his inability to actually see what Vera needs versus what he WANTS her to accomplish. More needs to be written like this. Not only Vera needing help, but Daniel as well and the inaction that leads to dire consequences. War, I’m excited about the possibly continuation of Morris’s story.

I, as well as a lot of you in here, I'm sure, don't really wince at horror anymore. There's nothing that makes me truly disturbed in horror beyond my distaste of foot and finger injuries, and when the animal in a horror meets their demise, but Beauregard managed to keep me wincing throughout the second half of this book. Specifically, the part wherein the protagonist refuses to eat, so The Slob ties her up to a bed, rapes her with the meat, forces her to eat it, kills her unborn child, and makes her eat that for dessert. I, wholeheartedly, don't think I could ever forget this scene as the detail it was described with made me feel as though I was a third party to the room it was happening in. Outside of that, the last, oh, say 20%-10% of this book was really disappointing as I felt it was extremely rushed in explaining things I felt the reader didn't really care about, all in the name of "no loose ends".The Slob by Aron Beauregard brings forth an unpleasant reality of intimate violation and torment. The reader should be aware physical violence and horrendous acts of defilement is a common thread throughout this splatterpunk novella. Now, this story is a continuation of The Slob which, by it’s own right, is one of the most vile novels on the planet. (And yes, that is a compliment.) But this one digs deeper and if I can get English major-y, in your face with social commentary. Don't usually Reread a book so close from reading it the first time. Read it in January this year but I just got book two. I joined Goodreads a little more than 3 and a half years ago. In all honesty, I wasn't even aware of the extreme genre - with the exception of Richard Laymon and Bentley Little. Since then, some authors approach me every now and then to read and review a book. One of my personal rules is to not write a review for a book I don't finish, so others won't know which ones I abandon. I do, however, send the author a message to tell them why I won't finish it.

Aron Beauregard has written an excellent sequel to The Slob. I highly recommend it to splatterpunk readers. And you would rightly say, that nobody is forcing me to read about it. But I like to read splatterpunk stories. Unfortunately for me, sloppy poo stories are trendy nowadays. So I have to endure my discomfort. This time it was worth it. Vera Harlow is a survivor. After a chance encounter led to her being held captive in a disgusting house of horrors, she fought tooth and nail to escape the clutches of a man known only as The Slob. But while she may have fled the disastrous situation, the details of her struggle are now carved into her flesh and soul.This was at times, hard to stomach but was made hilariously funny by my ‘reading buddy’ MadameD, whose reactions to Harold, etc, made me LOL 🤣 I don’t wanna describe the “horrendous torture” that Vera experienced at the hands of the Slob in great detail because I feel like I’m gonna throw up if I do. Vera is not sharing her bed with her husband Daniel anymore. In fact, they rarely even talk, even though they still live in the same house. He can’t get over the trauma of having lost his own unborn child because of the disgusting deeds The Slob did to his wife. And he can’t forgive Vera for keeping the son of The Slob. Vera’s son is the product of utter depravity. Harold, the sinister seed left by the man who took everything from her, continues to blossom in nauseating fashion. His features and habits are stomach-churning, vividly familiar, and becoming more disturbing by the day. Determined to coax out the bright side of her child that she sees an occasional glimpse of, Vera strives for normalcy. But will the faint light she’s chasing shine through the darkness or will she be left cleaning up another gruesome mess? WARNING: If you have not read THE SLOB, this review will reveal a lot about how that story ended. Please read it first, to allow yourself the full macabre journey it takes you on, before you read any further.