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The Montauk Monster

di Hunter Shea

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Fiction. Horror. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:

A terrifying new species of predator is loose in a New England resort town in this "wholly enthralling hulk of a summer beach read" (Publishers Weekly).

On a hot summer night in Montauk, the bodies of two local bar patrons are discovered in the dunes, torn to shreds, their identities unrecognizable. In another part of town, a woman's backyard is invaded by four creatures that defy description. What's clear is that they're hostileâ??and they're ravenous.

With every sunset the terror rises again, infecting residents with a virus no one can cure. The CDC can't help them; FEMA can't save them. But each savage attack brings Suffolk County Police Officer Gray Dalton one step closer to the shocking source of these unholy creations. Hidden on nearby Plum Island, a U.S. research facility has been running top-secret experiments. What they created was never meant to see the light of day. Now, a vacation paradise is going straight to hell.

"Shea combines ancient evil, old school horror, and modern style." â??Jonathan Maberry, New York Timesâ??bestselling author
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Wow this book was a fun creature feature bloody romp!



Setting: Montauk, New York

Police officer, Gray Dalton gets a call that bodies have been found on one of the beaches in the county. When Officer Dalton gets there and sees the remains of the bodies, he wonders what has invaded his domain. In the meantime, in other parts of the county, people are having problems with what they think are "wild dogs" that are causing a nuisance in the neighborhoods.

When neighbors go outside of their homes to investigate, the "wild dogs" are anything but friendly as they go into attack mode. As people start getting scratched or hurt from the attacks they don't think nothing of it so they don't go to the doctor which turns out to be a deadly mistake.

When Officer Dalton hears about the "wild dogs" and he finds out they have been attacking people he puts two and two together as he begins to wonder if the "dogs" are responsible for the corpses on the beach. As he gathers his police force together to go in search of these animals, he finds out quickly that these "dogs" are not normal as they are beyond his imagination.

Officer Dalton along with his officers find out that there is a government research facility not too far from Montauk called Plum Island and the dog creatures are coming from the island. When Officer Dalton and one of his police officers, Meredith goes to check out the island, he is not a happy camper when he finds out what they have created there.

As the bodies start piling up, Dalton and Meredith race against time to see if they can stop the creatures from causing any more destruction and death. When word gets out that the creatures have invaded the county, everyone descends on the community including the CDC as not only are the creatures attacking people as they are also spreading a deadly disease.

I was hooked from the first chapter as bodies and gore started flying!

The more I got into the book the more bodies started turning up. There is quite a bit to take in at first as there are lots of characters in this book, but don't get attached to anyone as they might end up dead!

Everyone is expendable in this book as no one is a favorite here!

If you are even a bit squeamish when it comes to gore and body parts, then you might not want to read this book as there is lots of graphic detail of the gore which abounds in this book! But for you readers that like extreme blood and gore mixed with lots of graphic descriptions then by all means pick up this book as you will not be disappointed!

It is a wonder my kindle wasn't bleeding as the whole book is a blood soaked gory mess!

Author, Hunter Shea, really took this book for a gory romp as I think it is one of the bloodiest books I have read by him! Giving it five gory stars for one horrific ride into terror! ( )
  BookNookRetreat7 | Jul 25, 2022 |
Let’s see:

Gore
Monsters
Mayhem
Stoners
Soldiers
Innocent civilians
A hero and a heroine


Yes, these are the ingredients for a spectacular monster book. It would actually make a great monster movie.

Montauk is ordinary town, a tourist magnet, but outside of the city lays an island called Plum Island. And on the Island lies Animal Disease Center. Now creatures have escaped from the island and have set their sight on the city and its population. And they are bred for one thing: to kill!

The Montauk Monster is not something I usually read, it more like something I would watch on the telly. This is definitely nothing for people that are faint of heart. It's nonstop action, people get slaughter right to left. A drawback for me was that the kindle version that I read had some problem with the structure of the text. And I don’t know if the paper book is better. But in the middle of the chapter, without warning, the focus could go from one scene to another and it was frustrating to be reading about something and then suddenly it doesn’t make sense anymore and then I realize that the story has shifted its focus to other characters. Annoying as hell!

Besides that, the book was quite good to read, it got a bit long-winded towards the end. Not boring, I just felt that it dragged on a bit and my interest in reading about people getting maimed dwindled.

I want to thank the publisher for providing me with a free copy through NetGalley for an honest review! ( )
  MaraBlaise | Jul 23, 2022 |
Creature Feature! B-Movie Madness! Evil bloated hairless raccoons who don't sound like Bradley Cooper!

What's not to love? It's chaos! Start out with a sleepy tourist town like the one in Jaws, throw in a large cast of characters including toss away potheads, add conspiracy theories, disease, sharp claws, and no cybernetic implants, and we've got some delicious treats falling into our couch, only to be found the next time we do a thorough cleaning. :)

This here is the closest Hunter Shea novel to his Jersey Devil that I've read! There's nothing like getting to know and enjoy a wide cast of characters who you just know are going to get torn apart or burst from within later on in the novel. Then we can have this little guessing game that goes a little like this:

Who's gonna survive this nightmare? Anyone? Anyone? Beuller?

I like the Deep Blue Sea effect, too. :)

So fun. So light. So damn bloody. :) Total trash.

(But I love it so.) ( )
  bradleyhorner | Jun 1, 2020 |
Let’s see:

Gore
Monsters
Mayhem
Stoners
Soldiers
Innocent civilians
A hero and a heroine


Yes, these are the ingredients for a spectacular monster book. It would actually make a great monster movie.

Montauk is ordinary town, a tourist magnet, but outside of the city lays an island called Plum Island. And on the Island lies Animal Disease Center. Now creatures have escaped from the island and has set their sight on the city and its population. And they are bred for one thing: to kill!

The Montauk Monster is not something I usually read, it more like something I would watch on the telly. This is definitely nothing for people that are faint of heart. It's nonstop action, people get slaughter right to left. A drawback for me was that the kindle version that I read had some problem with the structure of the text. And I don’t know if the paper book is better. But in the middle of the chapter, without warning, the focus could go from one scene to another and it was frustrating to be reading about something and then suddenly it doesn’t make sense anymore and then I realize that the story has shifted its focus to other characters. Annoying has hell!

Besides that, the book was quite good to read, it got a bit long-winded towards the end. Not boring, I just felt that it dragged on a bit and my interest in reading about people getting maimed dwindled.

Thank you Netgalley for providing me with a free copy for an honest review! ( )
  | Feb 9, 2016 |

I received a copy of this novel for an honest review via NetGalley.

I DNF'd this book. I've had this on my currently reading list for a month plus. I dropped it at few pages into the second chapter. The formatting and GSP (grammar, spelling, and punctuation) were fine but the novel did not hold my interest.

At a chapter plus into the novel, something had better have piqued my interest. I have tried many times over the past month to try, but a couple sentences in and I am finding tons of other things to do, so I quit.

I give it three stars for the formatting and GSP. I can't recommend it though and would highly suggest a potential buyer grab the free sample before purchasing. ( )
  autumnturner76 | Sep 22, 2014 |
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Fiction. Horror. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:

A terrifying new species of predator is loose in a New England resort town in this "wholly enthralling hulk of a summer beach read" (Publishers Weekly).

On a hot summer night in Montauk, the bodies of two local bar patrons are discovered in the dunes, torn to shreds, their identities unrecognizable. In another part of town, a woman's backyard is invaded by four creatures that defy description. What's clear is that they're hostileâ??and they're ravenous.

With every sunset the terror rises again, infecting residents with a virus no one can cure. The CDC can't help them; FEMA can't save them. But each savage attack brings Suffolk County Police Officer Gray Dalton one step closer to the shocking source of these unholy creations. Hidden on nearby Plum Island, a U.S. research facility has been running top-secret experiments. What they created was never meant to see the light of day. Now, a vacation paradise is going straight to hell.

"Shea combines ancient evil, old school horror, and modern style." â??Jonathan Maberry, New York Timesâ??bestselling author

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