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I Knew I Was Right to Hate Sprouts || Book Review || Day of the Killer Sprouts – by Kelvin V.A Allison

You SHOULD have eaten them when you had the chance!!!

– Sixteen scouts and their pair of deviant leaders…
– Bickering 8 year old twins and their infant brother…
– A pair of hillbilly brothers enjoying date night…
– Two deputy’s from the Ulster Sheriff’s Department…
– A pair of rangers from the New York Department of Environment and Conservation…
– A five man team of cryptid hunters…

When the rampaging botanical monstrosities resembling a cross between Brussel Sprouts and piranhas are unleashed, all of them are on the menu…

Dark bleatings, fellow sprout haters! I picked this novella up at a convention, finally got around to it, and am rather amused. Day of the Killer Sprouts is exactly what it sounds like. Imagine those horrid, gross little veges crossed with piranhas, on land, and there you go. This is going to be a quickie little review, and the even shorter version is that I’d recommend this to extreme horror fans.

I’m quite tickled by the premise, this is exactly the kind of thing I love and want to read in-between books that hit me a bit harder, emotionally. Psychological horror, for example, is a subgenre I tend to read and then need something lighter to cling to afterwards, so that my brain isn’t entirely full of woe.

The reason I’d recommend this to extreme horror fans is not because of the violence (the hilarious, chompy violence, hahahahaha), which I feel for my tastes is quite acceptable for regular horror. It’s because of the humour! I have a dark sense of humour, but some of the subject matter was a little too dark for me, and I think it would appeal to extreme horror readers much more as there’s a particular humour that goes with that genre so I think if you’re that reader, you’ll get more out of this. To give you a sort of scale, I found Woom hilarious, but was absolutely disgusted and appalled by Dead Inside. If you are one of the many people who found Dead Inside funny (I clearly didn’t get it, I discovered afterwards!), then you’ll have no problem with this.

With that said, I did find this a hoot. The plot was handled with the kind of silliness mixed with brutality that I hoped for, I revelled in the demise of several characters, while chortling at the lines crossed to kill others (oh god, the boy scouts!). Overall, I found it to be quite a laugh, and what I needed between reads that are ripping my soul apart.