All Things to Everyone: Sinister Sydney – Book One by Aldred Chase Book Review & $25 Amazon GC Giveaway

All Things to Everyone: Sinister Sydney – Book One by Aldred Chase

Fifteen year old Paul Blake is not looking forward to spending quality time with his grandmother, who has never taken an interest in him.

 

This time however, things are different because he reveals to her an ability to see the supernatural. She wants to train him but she is not the only one who is keen to help him develop his talents. He soon realizes that he can’t be all things to everyone and he will have to make some difficult decisions. His choices will lead him into a terrifying fight for survival that will test his skill and courage to the limit.

All Things to Everyone is the first book in the Sinister Sydney Series: stories where the supernatural pierces the thin skin of modern life in Sydney.

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Excerpt:

The hoofed thing stood up, sending its stool crashing backwards.

“Grab its ankles, Paul,” Gran shouted. I grabbed the thing above its hooves and yanked hard. It toppled over backwards and crashed into the kitchen cupboards.

I pushed aside the tablecloth and emerged from under the table. A creature two meters tall, half goat and half man, was sprawled on the floor. It had a man’s body covered in thick, matted brown hair, but hoofed feet and a goat’s head with a pair of horns that had smashed through a cupboard door when it fell. It twisted its head, trying to pull its horns free, pushing at the door with hands that were delicate, with long thin fingers, in contrast to the rest of its crude, filthy body.

“Hold it down, Paul,” Gran wheezed.

I threw myself across the creature’s body. Pale yellow, putrid smelling slime oozed out of its fur. The creature fixed its blood red eyes on me. “What now?” I called out to Gran.

She had grabbed the creature’s knees and was holding them tight together. The snake emerged from under the table. It had unhinged its jaws and its mouth was now an unnatural gaping hole.

It swallowed the creature’s hooves and began to slither up its legs.

I heard a ripping sound from the cupboard. The creature had torn its horns free. They had wickedly sharp points that were covered in a thick, brown liquid. I guessed it was poison rather than the contents of a broken sauce bottle. I scrabbled with my hands, searching for a weapon, and they closed on the fallen stool.

 

Aldred Chase is the author of the Nobody’s Fool Quartet and the Sinister Sydney Series. His first experience of fantasy fiction was reading ‘The Hobbit’ at school, and he has been hooked on the genre ever since. His favorite places for writing are cafes and park benches, but he does most of his work sitting at his desk. His best ideas come to him when he is travelling by train or walking by the sea.

His current writing project is ‘Lurker’, the second book in the Sinister Sydney Series.

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