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The Sadeiest: The Apocalypse desolation - How do you want to die today? Kindle Edition

by Austrian Spencer (Author), Nick Dyer (Illustrator), Bernhard Eisner (Illustrator) Format: Kindle Edition
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Is today a good day to die?

Death – a walking skeleton armed with a scythe, a rider of the apocalypse, it has always been assumed – is a man that brings the souls of the dead to wherever they are destined to go.

But what if we got that wrong? What if he were a ghost that, instead of moving your soul on silently after you had died, actually did the hard part for you?

Death has to die, again and again, to pay for his sins, and to free trapped souls before their bodies perish – only to replace those souls, to die for them.

A Death whose existence is a curse, where the other riders of the Apocalypse are not his allies, but his enemies.

Armed only with his morals, his memories and the advice of a child teacher, Williams, a Sadeiest, travels through the deaths of other people, on his way to becoming something greater. Something that will re-define the Grim Reaper.

Death just came to life, in time to fight for a child hunted by the other horsemen of the Apocalypse.

How do you want to die today?
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BHL1XCHQ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Austrian Horror; 2nd edition (November 27, 2022)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 27, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 10764 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 396 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

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Austrian Spencer

Austrian Spencer

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Austrian, otherwise known as Andy, writes primarily Horror books. His debut novel, The Sadeiest, is the first part of an ongoing series. The follow-on book - The Masocheist, is presently on its way.

Austrian's short stories can be found in the following books -

Burial Day's Gothic Blue Book VI - A Krampus carol

Ghost Orchard Press' "Beneath" - to be released in 2021

Webpage:

www.austrianspencer.com

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/SpencerAustrian

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https://www.instagram.com/austrianspencer/

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4.6 out of 5 stars
4.6 out of 5
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Wow. Such a bleak apocalyptic setting. Filled with beautiful creepy atmosphere. It feels like a dark bizarre indie film.THE SADEIEST is smart and imaginative as you try to put the pieces together, making for a slow deliberate and deciphering read. Austrian’s writing quickly connects you to these characters providing intimate glimpses into their lives. It isn’t just a book, it’s an experience, a wild wonderful experience.
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Brian Bowyer
5.0 out of 5 stars Astonishing!
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2023
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THE SADEIEST is a complex, philosophical, and challenging novel filled with dazzling prose and imagery. It's also a vast novel, and I'm not talking about the number of words or pages. I'm talking about the depth and scope of the story itself. This is an epic tale in every way, and ranks as one of the best debut novels I have ever read. Highly recommended!
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Paul Preston
4.0 out of 5 stars intelligent horror
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2023
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Wow. Such a bleak apocalyptic setting. Filled with beautiful creepy atmosphere. It feels like a dark bizarre indie film.
THE SADEIEST is smart and imaginative as you try to put the pieces together, making for a slow deliberate and deciphering read. Austrian’s writing quickly connects you to these characters providing intimate glimpses into their lives. It isn’t just a book, it’s an experience, a wild wonderful experience.
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Paul Preston
4.0 out of 5 stars intelligent horror
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2023
Wow. Such a bleak apocalyptic setting. Filled with beautiful creepy atmosphere. It feels like a dark bizarre indie film.
THE SADEIEST is smart and imaginative as you try to put the pieces together, making for a slow deliberate and deciphering read. Austrian’s writing quickly connects you to these characters providing intimate glimpses into their lives. It isn’t just a book, it’s an experience, a wild wonderful experience.
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Damien Casey
5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful.
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2023
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I don’t like go-karts and never have. I don’t trust them. Thanks Austrian Spencer for reminding me of that. The Sadeiest was a journey. That’s putting it mildly. This is a book that explores the human existence through life and death, as well as within the language it’s written in. This reminded me of the early works of Barker, not for the gory ooey gooey horror, but for the concepts at play and the thoughtfulness put behind exploring them. To make another reference, What Dreams May Come by Matheson comes to mind as well. This felt very much like a modern version of some of those same explorations and concepts. K thx.
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Coy
5.0 out of 5 stars Absorbing!
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2023
An absorbing, many-tentacled tale that takes you into the world of a sadeiest. Sadist + Ghost (geist)
= Sadeiest. We learn about the after-death world of the sadeiest through Williams, who begins the book as a fish out of water, learning his purpose and exploring his new world.

Spencer presents a philosophy of death that is challenging and fascinating. When a soul fails to escape the body before death, it does not go to Heaven, Hell, or Valhalla. If trapped and unreleased, the soul dies. The job of the Sadeiest is to go into the body of the dying (your shell can hold at least two souls at once, according to Williams' guide Henreich) and free it. Descriptions of death throes in the novel are quite unsettling.

The plot weaves a puzzle, and metaphysical horror is the price you pay for solving it. I loved it.

Spencer's prose is crisp, dialogue is witty and irreverent, characters vivid, descriptions visceral, and his ability to weave a tapestry of plots into a cohesive story is amazing.
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Iain MacCallum
5.0 out of 5 stars Brutal, bleak and absolutely brilliant.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 2, 2023
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The story of Sadiest 101 had me hooked from the start. It is a dark and twisty tale which is brutal, bleak and absolutely brilliant. I found it unputdownable. An easy 5 stars for me and I can't wait for the sequel.
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