Title: Question Not My SaltAuthor: Amanda M. Blake
First Published: February 16, 2024
Publisher: Crystal Lake Publishing
Pages: 151
Genre: Horror, LGBTQ, Splatterpunk
Format: Ebook
Source: Kindle Unlimited
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Synopsis:
Come for Thanksgiving Dinner. Stay for the Feast.
Sierra's first American Thanksgiving promises to be unforgettable when her college roommate, Zoe, invites her to the Samuels family feast. But as the ten-hour banquet unfolds, it becomes clear this is no ordinary holiday gathering.
With everyone bound by a chilling rule—eat and drink exactly as served, and enjoy it, or face dire consequences—the traditional celebration quickly takes a dark and macabre turn. Will Sierra survive the Samuels' sinister hospitality or become part of a feast far more horrifying than she could have ever imagined?
Question Not My Salt is a gripping tale blending the terror of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with the culinary horror of Hannibal and The Menu.
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Question Not My Salt is a Thanksgiving horror story with teeth. Sierra is a Canadian college student travels to her American roommate’s family home to celebrate her first Thanksgiving. All good until dinner begins and Sierra learns about this family’s very particular holiday traditions.
This book was terrifying, disturbing, gross, and filled to the brim with twists and turns. The latter half was a thrill ride and reading it felt like an adrenaline rush, I stayed up all night to finish it. The story is a blend of the darkly comedic culinary horror of The Menu with the overbearing “too close for comfort” family from Now You’re One of Us. I was breathless by the last page and I still think about the book months after reading it.
I strongly recommend it for readers looking for some holiday horror, and especially for fans of splatterpunk stories that don’t pull any punches. This is one of the few Thanksgiving horror stories out there but it’s a good read any time during the end of the year holiday season.
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“I believe food brings us closer to the divine, because we’re meant to enjoy things in this world. Bread broken at any table is communion. A stove or oven is an altar. All that dies for your plate is a sacrifice.”
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About Amanda M. Blake
Amanda M. Blake (she/her, they/them) is a cat-loving daydreamer who enjoys geekery of all sorts, from superheroes to horror movies, urban fantasy to unconventional romance. Born and raised in Texas, Blake attended Trinity University in San Antonio and graduated in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in English.
Amid dipping tentacles into the sea of gothic and horror short stories and poetry, Blake is also the author of fantasy novel Drift, horror novels Deep Down and Out of Curiosity and Hunger, dark poetry collection Dead Ends, and the fairy tale mash-up Thorns series. Extreme novel Question Not My Salt is slated to come out in 2024 through Crystal Lake Entertainment imprint Torrid Waters.
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