{"id":8645,"date":"2021-05-16T21:51:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T01:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=8645"},"modified":"2021-05-16T21:51:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T01:51:52","slug":"book-review-tome-by-ross-jeffrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/book-review-tome-by-ross-jeffrey\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Tome by Ross Jeffrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tome_jeffrey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8651\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tome_jeffrey-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"cover art for Tome by Ross Jeffrey\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tome_jeffrey-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tome_jeffrey.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Tome\u00a0<\/em>by Ross Jeffrey<\/p>\n<p>Independently published, 2020<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a-list-item\"><span class=\"a-text-bold\">ISBN-13 :\u00a0<\/span>979-8647504074<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Available: Paperback, Kindle edition\u00a0<strong>(\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/33RCXyR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon.com<\/a> )<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ross Jeffrey has penned a thrilling, brutal Stoker finalist that pulls zero punches yet has the class of a Ketchum story.\u00a0 Juniper Correctional facility, a blight on human&#8217;s blistered history, has long housed the worst of the worst, the people who operate below the level of human beings.<\/p>\n<p>The story belongs to pair of characters who are both steered by Juniper, the machine that churns and spits out souls: Warden Fleming sits on one end of the spectrum, hoarding secrets that boil beneath the prison surface, and Frank Whitten, a guard who refuses to give up the last strand of light within him.<\/p>\n<p>The story spirals inward up on itself, devouring everything in its path. Juniper is pure hell incarnate, infesting its inmates, guards, and others with a darkness that is more pitch than anything supernatural. It\u2019s not for the squeamish: Jeffrey aims for the jugular, without much subtlety, yet somehow, still manages to build an effective, claustrophobic atmosphere to constrict our deepest insecurities. Juniper as a setting becomes the main character between the pages, an effective and frightening tool that likely scored this nomination.<\/p>\n<p>For fans of brutal, effective horror, with echoes of Edward Lee, Richard Laymon, and Jack Ketchum, <em>Tome <\/em>will not disappoint. Recommended.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Contains: Extreme gore and violence, body horror, racism<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by David Simms<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note:\u00a0<strong>Tome<\/strong> is a nominee on the final ballot of this year&#8217;s Bram Stoker Award in the category of Superior Achievement in a First Novel.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tome\u00a0by Ross Jeffrey Independently published, 2020 ISBN-13 :\u00a0979-8647504074 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition\u00a0(\u00a0Amazon.com ) &nbsp; Ross Jeffrey has penned a thrilling, brutal Stoker finalist that pulls zero punches yet has the class of a Ketchum story.\u00a0 Juniper Correctional facility, a blight on human&#8217;s blistered history, has long housed the worst of the worst, the people who<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/book-review-tome-by-ross-jeffrey\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2594,357,83,2231,236,2737,2863,4895,2363,4894],"class_list":["post-8645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-body-horror","tag-bram-stoker-awards","tag-horror-fiction","tag-human-monsters","tag-prisons","tag-psychological-horror","tag-racism","tag-ross-jeffrey","tag-supernatural-horror","tag-tome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8645"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8652,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645\/revisions\/8652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}