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Morsel

Audrey Rush

Start date: May 18, 2025

Finish date: May 24, 2025

Discussion: Buddy Reads

Why we're reading this: Buddy read scheduled for May 18-24 (2025).
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MORSEL [2024] By Audrey Rush
My Review 5.0 Stars

This novel was a designated Buddy Read this month on the horror group Splatterpunk. I started reading it on May 18th (first day of the Buddy Read) and finished it the following day. It carried an “Author’s Note” on Amazon wherein the author stated that it was a horror story with extreme content and that reader discretion was advised. It was noted that there was “an extended content list on the author’s website”, which I felt was very responsible of MORSEL [2024] By Audrey Rush
My Review 5.0 Stars

This novel was a designated Buddy Read this month on the horror group Splatterpunk. I started reading it on May 18th (first day of the Buddy Read) and finished it the following day. It carried an “Author’s Note” on Amazon wherein the author stated that it was a horror story with extreme content and that reader discretion was advised. It was noted that there was “an extended content list on the author’s website”, which I felt was very responsible of the author.

The genre designation is “Erotic Horror” and for many if not most readers those two words should never appear together. This particular novel by Rush examines the taboo topic of sexual cannibalism. Black may be black and white may be white but make no mistake. Cannibalism may not be cannibalism as you believed it to be in this mesmerizing extreme horror novel by the popular and highly praised Audrey Rush. The book has more in common with Armin Meiwes the ‘Rotenberg Cannibal’ who advertised for a well-developed young male to be eaten from the annals of true crime.

But I knew exactly what I was going to be reading about, and I took it seriously. Still, this novel by new-to-me Audrey Rush was truly a revelation.

This novel is very well written using the first-person point of view of her main male character, Kent. His passion, his strength, and his hunger dominate the storyline throughout. Rust writes with bold strokes that carry the reader along on a visceral wave of passionate feelings which crash into the reader’s consciousness like an ocean wave against a shoreline. The prose style and intimate first-person perspective of the cannibal provides an intimate channel that communicates his growing needs and corresponding deep disappointments with his new lover Mona.

The story is well plotted and opens the reader's mind to a chilling psychological horror that is impossible to evade. The pacing is like the throbbing tension of a high electric wire shocking you forward. This novel was a master class in tackling a taboo topic using an intelligent literary prose style that is propulsive and builds tension and expectation. I have rarely had stark terror projected from a victim so effectively.

Rush is an accomplished writer who develops her characters exceptionally well and provides chilling backstories in the case of her confused cannibal Kent. The author is savvy enough to render Kent’s love object as a malignant narcissist who is completely confident in her skills of deception. This is a slow burn toward an explosive jaw dropping finale to be sure but getting there is full of intrigue and is incredibly satisfying in its own right. The reader feels that the victim was the architect of her own demise. This conclusion is proximal to my opinion that many fans, likely including myself, would not otherwise be as “blown away” by this chilling horror story of a sexual cannibal coming into his own and living out his fantasies unfettered by societal taboos.

In my opinion, I feel that this “locked and loaded” plotline succeeded with hitting a bullseye in the minds of her fans and new readers alike because she is a master of the game. A lesser talent would not have been able to deliver the same package of goods to the sound of applause.

AUDREY RUSH DELIVERS A KNOCKOUT PUNCH TO EXTREME HORROR TABOOS ...more

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Jun 30, 2024 Lucy rated it it was amazing

This is not a romance and It’s definitely not for the queasy weak stomachs. Absolutely check out the trigger warnings on this one before reading. A cannibalistic erotic horror with a very obsessed MMC and a manipulative FMC

I both loved and hated the main characters and it was a constant battle with myself and my own feelings and morals. I love that the MMC was always trying to convince himself that he was not a cannible and arguing with his internal monologue throughout the whole book. His canni ...more

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Feb 21, 2025 Cat rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

OH WOW!
Everytime I thought it was going one way it went th completely other direction.
I read at night and I have to say I've woken my husband up gasping and loudly saying " OH MY GOD" a few times .
HIGHLY RECOMMEND ...more

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Jul 07, 2024 ChanaReadsHorror rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

If ever in your life you would have thought that cannibalism could be the center of an erotic horror novel, because I didn't until I read this one. We follow a women who wants to explore this taboo subject for an art project and when she meets her muse, not only does she find out how dark things can get, she realizes that sometimes some subjects should stay taboo for a reason.
I could not get enough of this book and could not put it down once I started reading, it was beyond amazing. ...more

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