Three possible futures. Two versions of the apocalypse. One chance to save the world.
Wes Porter, a severely depressed insanity-inducing playboy, is detoxing from hallucinogens that have unlocked his ability to see versions of potential futures – and he’s just foreseen two ways the world could end. Normally, Wes would leave the hero bullshit to somebody else, but he can’t abdicate responsibility this time… not when both those apocalypses might be his fault.
With some prompting from a mythological bard-prophet who may or may not be real, and a lot of assistance from his monster-eating baby sister who desperately wants to move out of his apartment, and their soothsayer cousin who has his own demons to fight, Wes attempts to save [his] world… but have his poor decisions doomed them all?
THE DAY WE ATE GRANDAD is the third book in the Pagham-on-Sea series. It is a dysfunctional family cosmic horror novel for fans of WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS, THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES, and THE CALL OF CTHULHU, with themes of bereavement and grief, generational trauma, and a dash of Roman/Welsh mythology.
Glorious. I can’t tell if C.M. Rosens keeps getting better or if my love for her characters allows the storylines to cut deeper every time, but either way, I’m not complaining xD funny how even with the emphasis on fate and the chef’s kiss title, one chapter after the next just kept me reading. Speaking of kiss… no, I won’t spoil it but wow.
Amazon review
I loved it. Serial killers and family-eating cannibal monsters shouldn’t be this loveable. Often gruesome but also funny in a dark shroud sort of way. This is a book for fans of weird fiction, gore-spattered horror, and heart-warming stories of cousins standing together against an apocalypse. Two apocalypses, maybe. That they might be causing just by hanging out. And, as ever in the Pagham-on-Sea books, the complicated dynamics of an extended family of monstrous cannibals with eldritch super powers.
goodreads review
Saturn ate his children, Set cut Osiris up, Loki engineered the death of Baldur – there’s always trouble in pantheons and the Porter clan are no different. Tentacled and mandibled nightmares from Outside face up to soap opera style family problems in this both funny and insanely violent book. I loved it.
Amazon review
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