When Going Home Again Means Going Back to Evil: Toxic Maternal is a horrifying story of a mother’s ruthless quest for immortality

 

Toxic Maternal

C.A. Baynam

Unveiling Nightmares, 2024

ISBN-13: 979-8877585959

Ebook, 80 ppg.

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If you’re up for a cringe-inducing story of an evil mother literally hell-bent on getting what she wants no matter who it hurts, Toxic Maternal by C.A. Baynam is the story for you. This is definitely a book that made me cringe, a lot. It was also terrifying and horrifying!

 

Mother in Toxic Maternal brings Mommy Dearest to shame! She is brutally evil and a frightening character.

 

You don’t ever say “no” to Mother. She always has her way. Anyone who disagrees with her or tries to change her plans will have horrors and violence visited upon them.

 

And Mother DOES have a plan. That’s why her children have been summoned on the night of a full moon. No one could ever fathom what terror awaits her two children.

 

Mother is truly evil to the core. Ever since Andrew and Sarah have been children, she has beaten and tortured them. Anytime Andrew acted out, mother would punish him by hurting Sarah. This type of home life rears the children to think they cannot fight Mother and must do as she says. Even if they try to fight her as adults, she punishes them until they give in.

 

She is a woman who is interested in black magic. She uses rune symbols to control some of her minions. She also has victims awaiting her torture, where she uses their blood, organs and deaths in a sacrificial manner. If they scream, it only drives her on more. As she says to one potential victim, “Screaming, to me, dear, is like music. A sweet, chilling lullaby to help me drift off to sleep.”

 

This is not a story for the faint of heart. There is incestual sex, cannibalism, rape, torture and black magic.

 

Toxic Maternal by C.A. Baynam is one of the most extreme and brutal horror stories I have ever read. I am looking forward to reading the prequel! If you can withstand extreme horror and can get through a story of the most dysfunctional family ever, pick up this book to read today. Buckle up, because you’re about to meet the most evil mother ever!

 

 

Five stars

 

 

Disclaimer: I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Surviving a Childhood of Hell: Not Dead Yet is a Harrowing Account of Torture and Abuse

 

Not Dead Yet

Tracey Nudd

Independently published, 2023

ISBN: 979-8868334139

54 ppg., softcover

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In a perfect world, all children would be loved and cared for by their mothers and stepparents the way an innocent childhood calls for. But, sadly, in the real world, many children endure relentless physical, verbal, emotional and sexual abuse at the hands of the people not only who brought them into this world but also those responsible for caring for them.

 

And while Bella’s story of physical, verbal and sexual abuse is horrifying and gut-wrenching, it is just one of many stories of children suffering years of such torment.

 

This book is definitely not for the faint of heart. There are graphic scenes of child sex abuse wrought upon Bella by her stepfather and his friend. There is even psychological abuse, as he pressures Bella to say “yes, Daddy” when he asks her if she is a whore or if she likes what is being done to her. Bella knows better than to say otherwise.

 

One may ask if the person in such a situation ever tries to escape. The story is told in first person, and Bella recalls her many failed attempts to either hide from her abuser or run away.

 

Bella’s mother could be her rescuer but, instead, only adds to the abuse. She physically and verbally abuses Bella, though the story is mostly focused on the abuse Bella receives from her stepfather. She keeps Bella alive and around only because of the food stamps she receives, which she sells for drug money. She also jokes with her husband that if his many rapes of her daughter results in pregnancy, it’s more children to use for food stamps as well as for abuse.

 

Tracey Nudd writes a story of a child who endured years of brutal and horrible abuse in her home. Many readers are warned of triggering content in this novelette, and for good measure. Most of this story was hard to read but it is also close to the reality of what many children being abused endure. We cannot turn a blind eye to such things. This kind of material may be hard to expose ourselves, to but it is harder still for the children in real life who are forced to experience the same kind of horror.

 

Not Dead Yet is a haunting story of a child’s horrifying experiences of rape and abuse. It captures just one of many stories out there, except other stories will never be told by the victims. This particular victim-turned-survivor lived through the kind of hell no one should ever endure, with the kind of spirit holding out hope to get out of that hellish nightmare alive.

 

 

Five stars

 

 

 

Disclaimer: I purchased this book from the author and my review of this book is completely voluntary.