I rarely, I mean rarely rate something one star. But this was just awful. It was crude, obscene, violent just to be violent, and I’m a bit irritated that it compares itself to Tales from the Crypt and other amazing stories. Those stories all had something in common that they had a lesson to learn, even when the evildoers didn’t get “punished” for their actions. But there didn’t seem to be any point to this.
This just seemed like an excuse to throw together a bunch of gross stories under the same cover. The only story that was worthwhile was the last one, but by that point, I was already completely over the whole disgusting thing. I’m talking, intimate scenes with animals, this dude eating aliens, and all kinds of stuff that I don’t really want to get into. I can take a good amount of violence and grossness, but hot dang, this was just uggghhhh!!!!
Sometimes the art can save even a bad story from being a one star read, but this isn’t one of them!! I was sorely disappointed in most of the art save for a few parts, including the last story, however, as I mentioned, I was so disgusted with the rest of it that the one story didn’t save the book. So as much as I hate to do this, it’s a one star read. I cannot recommend this and in fact recommend you stay away.
Thanks to NetGalley for a copy of this in exchange for my honest and unbiased opinion.