Seed of Evil

By: Greig Beck

Narrated by: Danny Montooth

There’s something growing deep in the old Angel Mine - something the Native Americans warned us about - And now it’s rising again.

Mitch Taylor, ex-Special Forces medic, is seeking a quiet life in the town of Eldon. Tragedy has dogged his life, and he sees the small friendly place as a second chance. But buried deep below the friendly smiles and quaint painted houses is an old abandoned mine that holds a legend of an ancient and terrible god. In the mine’s labyrinthine depths, something has been growing, something from a time of myth when ancient gods strode the Earth and mankind hadn’t even stood on two legs. But when the Earth shakes and the groundwater rises, it reaches out and those it touches begin to deform and reshape into the image of their god. Their one goal - to feed their ancient master deep below the ground.

Mitch Taylor soon finds himself fighting again, this time for the town, the ones he loves, and for his life. The Seed of Evil is a horrifying legend of an ancient god that turned out to be real.

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A town of idiots

There was not a single person, from the mayor to the suicidal vet who had a brain between them. The story was interesting and the "disease" was unique. I generally liked this book but it seemed like a novella or short story.

5 hours?

I don't like shorter books, so I had avoided this one.
it was far better than I was thinking, and should I have been surprised? I finished this book in under 21 hours. And more real without off into the sunset endings.

If you’re a fan of Michael Crichton or Robin Cook, you’ll love ‘Seed of Evil’

This book combines ancient evils with modern science. Characterization could use some work and in places the storyline was incomplete. It was just the kind of premise I enjoy in a book. In my opinion, had the author followed through with characters this would have been a really great book. For example, the author builds suspense about the children transforming and then just drops that storyline. Overall I did like the book,

I don’t understand why writers don’t know their craft

Perhaps it’s just the titles I choose, but all writers seem only to focus on the plot and the characterization and the dialogue, and totally overlook the mechanics. They’re also apparently not doing their research. Take this story as an example; the writer says that the doctor is doing an autopsy on a dog. Does this writer not know that autopsies are specifically for humans? a post-Mortem on an animal is called “a necropsy.“ He also mentioned the smell of methane in the cave. Methane is an odorless gas. Also, he says a weird thing “in a few seconds more.“ That got on my nerves. The story is OK nothing special in my opinion it’s a fun read for credit but I wasn’t overly impressed.

Left wanting more

This was a really great story it left me wanting more Greig Beck had done an outstanding job with his story telling in all of his novels and this one does not disappoint.