{"id":32119,"date":"2024-05-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=32119"},"modified":"2024-03-05T19:06:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T01:06:21","slug":"review-extremehorror-zola-by-d-e-mccluskey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=32119","title":{"rendered":"#Review #ExtremeHorror &#8211; Zola by D E McCluskey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/71uNRY4a-L._SY522_.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"313\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/71uNRY4a-L._SY522_.jpg?resize=313%2C522&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/71uNRY4a-L._SY522_.jpg?w=313 313w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/71uNRY4a-L._SY522_.jpg?resize=180%2C300 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Gordon&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0name was a joke.<br><br>It was given to him by\u00a0<strong>Anthony Zola<\/strong>, a controlling, and abusive father, to taunt his wife over her love of\u00a0<strong>cheese<\/strong>, and the fact that she had been steadily gaining weight since their marriage.<br><br><strong>Andrea<\/strong>\u00a0was a doting mother, and maybe a little overprotective of her boy, but she didn&#8217;t see that as a bad thing.<br><br>On discovering a\u00a0<strong>secret<\/strong>, one the child had been told to keep to himself, everything changes. Now she must do whatever she needs to keep her, and her boy, alive.<br><br>Needs must.<br><br><strong>Gordon<\/strong>\u00a0is going to find that his love of cheese, handed down to him by his mother, and his love for the only woman in his life, is about to be taken to a whole new level.<br><br>From the dark mind of\u00a0<strong>D E McCluskey<\/strong>, author of\u00a0<strong>The Twelve<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>CRACK<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>Cravings<\/strong>, Comes another addition to his &#8216;Extreme Horror Series&#8217;.<br><br><strong>Zola<\/strong>\u00a0is about to take you into a whole new level darkness, and depravity.<br><br><em>&#8220;The perfect combination of extreme horror and heartfelt emotion.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<strong>R E Shambrook<\/strong><br><br><em>&#8220;Truly, a book of absolute depravity&#8230; but with heart.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<strong>Christina Pfeiffer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jo.jpg?resize=474%2C158\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25379\" style=\"width:360px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jo.jpg?w=900 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jo.jpg?resize=300%2C100 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jo.jpg?resize=768%2C256 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This book was vile and disgusting but at the same time, also sad. For that alone, I&#8217;m rating it 5 stars, because it left me feeling all sorts of emotions. Which is absolutely crazy because I was not expecting that going into this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We meet a na\u00efve woman who ends up finding out something horrible happened to her son. When she finds this out, she takes revenge into her own hands. Once this happens, the rest of the book is a crazy, twisted, disgusting ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really have no words for what I just read but I can guarantee that I&#8217;ll be thinking about this book for a while. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DE definitely left me wanting to take a metal brillo pad to my skin and grab some tissues at the same. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh and I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be eating cheese for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Available to read in Kindle Unlimited &#8211;<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3v5vehF\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/3v5vehF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon&#8217;s\u00a0name was a joke. It was given to him by\u00a0Anthony Zola, a controlling, and abusive father, to taunt his wife over her love of\u00a0cheese, and the fact that she had been steadily gaining weight since their marriage. Andrea\u00a0was a doting mother, and maybe a little overprotective of her boy, but she didn&#8217;t see that as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=32119\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#Review #ExtremeHorror &#8211; Zola by D E McCluskey<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1686,1029,30],"tags":[1696],"class_list":["post-32119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extreme-horror","category-horror","category-novella","tag-d-e-mccluskey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-8m3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32119"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32126,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32119\/revisions\/32126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}