- Hardcover: 179 pages
- Publisher: Bloodletting Pr; 1 Ltd Sgd edition (Jun 30 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1935006029
- ISBN-13: 978-1935006022
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 431 g
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Adelle Smith has lived her entire life for the betterment of mankind. A Civil Rights Activist in the Sixties and Seventies, she has spent most of her adult life attending marches, giving speeches, and lending a hand to anyone in need.
But on the very evening she is to be acknowledged with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her humanitarian efforts, a stroke leaves her partially paralyzed and unable to speak. Now Adelle's in the care of a ruthless hospice nurse, who sees not a hero before her, but the cause of her many hardships growing up as a child of interracial parents, someone who decides to give Adelle her very own brand of "Physical Therapy" consisting of pain and suffering, mental cruelty and torture.
And now, after a lifetime of helping others, Adelle needs help, quickly, before another round of brutal treatment snuffs out her life.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Finely Tuned Tale Of Terror, Dec 28 2008
By William M Miller - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Hero (Hardcover)
4 AND 1/2 STARSHero is a finely tuned tale of terror. White and Gonzalez are not afraid of peeling back the layers of evil to deconstruct the motives of one of the most chilling female villains in recent memory. The pairing of these authors worked much better, in my opinion, than that of Wrath James White and Maurice Broaddus's book, Orgy Of Souls. The writing of Hero felt completely seamless, as if written by a single mind.
This fantastic writing team has managed to accomplish in a novella what most authors cannot do in an entire novel. I was completely hooked from the first page until the epilogue and not afraid to acknowledge the tears in my eyes as I finished the book. This is one powerful work of horror and I am definitely looking forward to more from White and Gonzalez. A few typos and some minor story points aside, this is near perfect.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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A Hero Of A Book, April 15 2012
By Cisthebigdog - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Hero (Paperback)
DEADITE PRESS does it again. They have brought us an excellent novella that has long been out of print, before I go into any review, let me first start by saying that this was an excellent collaboration. ***MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS*** The book brings together some very divergent characters, the woman Adele, who is the civil rights leader you hear about in the blurb, she is an elderly woman who needs a visiting nurse. The nurse happens to be a self hating woman of mixed race who takes out her frustrations on minorities and especially Adelle. We are treated to her twisted rationalization for what she does and why she does it, and all the while we are helpless to do anything about her actions. Adelle's daughter and some local thug who watches out for the old lady all come together in the action packed climax. We are left at the end knowing the truth but society needs answers. Who was the victim here? Who was the villian? Who was the Hero?
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Brilliant, April 6 2012
By Azeryk - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Hero (Paperback)
Hero is brought to you by two modern day horror maestros - Wrath James White and J.F. Gonzalez - both of whom are known to bring edgy and original stories to print. This particular book was originally released as a hard-cover only four years ago and was been long out of print until Deadite Press decided to re-release it in a more affordable and easy to get form.The book follows an elderly lady called Adelle, a former civil rights activist, who has a stroke and needs the constant care at home of a nurse. The lady put in change of Adelle's care is Natsinet, a young lady who doesn't see a lady needing help but the cause of her own childhood problems and goes on to torture Adelle.
The book is very well written and the authors have done a good job at making an evil and realistic female villain which moves the story along at a good pace. The story as a whole also does a good job at making you root for Adelle, you feel sorry for her when she's being tortured and want Natsinet to be found out.
If you pick up this book you won't want to put it down - brilliant.
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