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Seed [Kindle Edition]

Ania Ahlborn
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Book Description

With nothing but the clothes on his back—and something horrific snapping at his heels—Jack Winter fled his rural Georgia home when he was still just a boy. Watching the world he knew vanish in a trucker’s rearview mirror, he thought he was leaving an unspeakable nightmare behind forever. But years later, the bright new future he’s built suddenly turns pitch black, as something fiendishly familiar looms dead ahead.

When Jack, his wife Aimee, and their two small children survive a violent car crash, it seems like a miracle. But Jack knows what he saw on the road that night, and it wasn’t divine intervention. The profound evil from his past won’t let them die…at least not quickly. It’s back, and it’s hungry; ready to make Jack pay for running, to work its malignant magic on his angelic youngest daughter, and to whisper a chilling promise: I’ve always been here, and I’ll never leave.

Country comfort is no match for spine-tingling Southern gothic suspense in Ania Ahlborn’s tale of an ordinary man with a demon on his back. Seed plants its page-turning terror deep in your soul, and lets it grow wild.


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"Incorporating elements from such genre classics as The Exorcist, Poltergeist, and Bad Seed, but telling its own story, this horror novel contains moments of genuine terror that should stick with readers long after they’ve finished the book. The story seems simple enough: Jack and his family (wife Aimee, daughters Abby and Charlie) survive a car accident, but afterward, six-year-old Charlie seems to change, to take on a new and frightening personality. Aimee struggles to understand what’s going on with her little girl, but Jack already knows: the horror that came to him when he was a child has found him again. Ahlborn doesn’t pull any punches here, delivering a story that is atmospheric and brutal, with an ending that is absolutely correct and absolutely horrifying. Genre fans should be enthusiastically pointed in this novel’s direction."
 — David Pitt

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"Seed is great horror—a dark, fearless, unflinching blast of suburban spookiness that reminded me of early Stephen King. It's easily the best debut novel—in any genre—that I've read in years."
--Blake Crouch, bestselling horror and thriller author.

Product Details

  • File Size: 613 KB
  • Print Length: 246 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1612183662
  • Publisher: 47North (July 17, 2012)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B0073XV3K8
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Enabled
  • Lending: Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #809 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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129 of 144 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The root of evil May 30, 2011
Format:Kindle Edition
"Seed," is an instant classic full of traditional elements brilliantly woven into something completely new by the author's clean, crisp prose, creepy imagination and too-real dialogues. In the story, Jack Winter is a husband and father of two struggling for money. After a glimpse of something strange crossing in front of his car one night leads to a car accident with his whole family in the vehicle, things in the Winter household take a turn for the worse.

Jack's six year old daughter, Charlie, is the smallest of the Winter's. After the accident, she suddenly develops an attitude problem and has problems sleeping. As things start to go south with Charlie, Ahlborn teasingly unveils Jack's past. The result is a gripping, spine-chilling story told against the background of the Deep South. While using a child to tell a horror story is not new (think "The Omen," "The Exorcist," "Poltergeist," etc.), little Charlie gains the reader's sympathy even through her darkest moments. Also, by having a second child in the picture, Charlie's ten year-old sister, Abby, we have more than one point of view of what's going on. A particularly gruesome scene with the family dog is the perfect example of how a six year old can be the scariest thing in the world.

With the Southern Gothic Georgia and Louisiana as the background to the story, "Seed" scares the reader based on verisimilitude: one gets the sense that stories like this happen in Louisiana every once in a while. Ahlborn developed very strong, believable characters we've all met at some point.

While the story is very solid, enthralling and moves at the perfect pace, the end of the story is what truly sets this novel apart from anything else out there and the reason why you should get "Seed" as soon as it hits the market on June 1. The tremendous buildup might lead readers to expect a classic, Hollywood resolution. Instead, Ahlborn has crafted an ending that cuts through your expectations like a scalpel and leaves you thinking about it way after the last word. The visceral, violent ending is a testament to Ahlborn's talent and an invitation to expect more great books from her.
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57 of 61 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Plant the Seed of disappointment October 17, 2011
By Jhyphen
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I wanted so badly for this book to be great! And based on the mass of positive reviews, I purchased and began reading with great excitement.

I found myself immediately at odds with the story. I hated one of the four main characters and was left largely ambivalent about the others. I thought that I would grow to care about them as the story progressed.

But as I wound my way through the story, I was left only frustrated. The characters didn't grow any more likable and ultimately, the author began killing off the only characters of worth: a dog and a cat.

The desperate story flails along, as one horror follows another, and the reader is left with a general sense of discontent when the ending comes to a crashing display of predictability.

In general, I don't mind a slightly predictable story, or even a story that has been rehashed a lot of times. Sadly, this story feels like the author penned herself into a corner, couldn't think of any clever way out of it, so she just wrote whatever came to her, which was neither clever, nor satisfying.

I'm not one to fault a book for not having a happy ending, and while I don't want to give spoilers, I feel it's necessary to say that all the horrors of the book came without any semblance of balance. No good came to any character in the book, no good came from any of the atrocities that occur. One reviewer stated that a book can't have demons without having God. I couldn't disagree more. This book doesn't need holy good to balance out the demon, but it needs SOMETHING. The book progresses with each and every fear realized, with only evil progressing successfully. If the book offered some semblance of a chance at the protagonists succeeding, it might seem worth reading. The book doesn't need God, but it needs a balancing force, whether it be religion or voodoo or love or anything.

Ultimately, I was left feeling a little raw and a lot unsatisfied when I read through all of the horrible things that the author inflicted on all of the innocents she placed in the path of her demon.

I truly believe that the author has genuine talent, and I would look forward to another attempt... but hopefully a more satisfying one.
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66 of 77 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Finally!! Something scary!! July 5, 2011
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Finally, this is what I've been looking for! I read so many books, most of them just seem to blend together anymore. Not this one, it really stood out. It's not all gore and guts (there is some), but it's the subtle creepiness that makes it so scary. This is the kind of book I'm always sifting through the trash to find. Blood and guts dont scare me, though they have their place in horror; but this is what a scary book should be. Can't wait for more from this author! Love, love, love it!!!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
2.0 out of 5 stars Very bloody
I genuinely like the beginning, but once I got past the car accident, I couldn't find any character to like. It was predictable, gory and parts were well written. Read more
Published 17 hours ago by Karen Berry
3.0 out of 5 stars OK for $2; better if you rented it
I'm a fan of horror, and this book looked intriguing enough that I decided to pick it up for the $2 kindle sale, especially since I wasn't reading anything else at the time. Read more
Published 1 day ago by Jessica Lee
5.0 out of 5 stars Greatest Horror book I have ever read.
I have always been a major fan of horror stories, in fact thats all I really like to read is horror. But I have never read such a well composed and very suspenseful story. Read more
Published 1 day ago by Max Miller
3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad.....
An entertaining read, well written ....did not catch a single grammatical or editing error. It's pretty spooky ....actually I would go so far as to say it's a bit disturbing... Read more
Published 2 days ago by Mama Bear
4.0 out of 5 stars Southern-Fried Horror...
Great storyline and well-written. Combining all of the mixed emotions of confronting a favored child (innocence) possessed by...something (or is she? Read more
Published 3 days ago by NbleSavage
2.0 out of 5 stars Fair story
The book took a while to grab me but then couldn't put it down .wish ending was a little different.
Published 3 days ago by SUZE
5.0 out of 5 stars Dark, creepy, not to be overlooked.
I purchased this book without realizing exactly what is was about. In the first few pages I was completely hooked. Read more
Published 3 days ago by Bayley
2.0 out of 5 stars Hated the ending
I hate the way the book ended because I would've preferred for good to prevail over evil. This book deviates from my normal reading material and was a bit disappointing.
Published 5 days ago by Stacey
5.0 out of 5 stars Seed
Creepy, scary book and I loved it! So many books out there promise thrills and chills, this one delivered. Read more
Published 5 days ago by Grace
5.0 out of 5 stars Intense, Brutal Horror
I'm a long time horror fan, and as much I love the genre, very little horror scares or unsettles me, but "Seed" did.
Published 7 days ago by Brad M. O'Brien
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More About the Author

Born in Ciechanow Poland, Ania has always been drawn to the darker, mysterious, and sometimes morbid sides of life. Her earliest childhood memory is of crawling through a hole in the chain link fence that separated her family home from the large wooded cemetery next door. She'd spend hours among the headstones, breaking up bouquets of silk flowers so that everyone had their equal share.

Beyond writing, Ania enjoys gourmet cooking, baking, movies, drawing, and traveling. She currently resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico with her husband and two dogs, Beau the Scottie and Galaxy the Yorkie.



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