I got this book for free using netgalley but I promise all opinions are my very own! 
Rise of the Thing Down Below
ISBN: 9781626392076
by Daniel W. Kelly
Format: eARC
Published by Bold Strokes Books on 2014-10-13
Pages: 264
Source: netgalley
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The boys and bears of Comfort Cove are counting the days until the opening of the sexually charged boardwalk attraction SandMen Strip. But before the naked fun in the sun can begin, the mutilated bodies of a few burly dockworkers wash up on the sand. Suspicion falls on the cute young owners of SandMen Strip, but local paranormal investigator Deck Waxer has to look at all the possibilities, including new faces in town. There's the cocky two-and-a-half foot tall artist named Little Larry Long. The city's mayor is hiding some unnaturally large life form in his mansion. And even trusted religious leader Father Merrin has been keeping a troubled young psychic a secret from the public. As the body count rises, the angry and scared dockworkers target Deck's crew of sex-loving friends, unaware of the real terror that has surfaced in Comfort Cove: a grotesque evolutionary mutation from deep down below.
Sometimes you just need a good book to take you away and forget about the cruel hard world. I admit I requested this book from NetGalley because I like books that have a supernatural element to them. I had no idea that this book was a campy, horror gay sex book. I mean I was reading and I was all like
I even asked my gay friend if some of the sex scenes were real or did the author have an over active imagination. My friend told me they were real. OOOKKK. WOW.
Aside from learning a lot about gay sex I really enjoyed the plot of this book. The world building was excellent and it reminded me in a good way of the campy horror stuff you would find in the 70’s. The plot was really believable. The Rise of the Thing Down below was written in such a way that you did not have to make giant leaps with the plot to fall into the story like you do with some books. When I read this I was wanting to get lost in another world and forget about reality for a few hours. This book accomplished this and more.
I also really enjoyed the supernatural elements to the story. It was really creative and believable and I even had a fun, good time with it. You know how some books with supernatural elements leave you with the feeling of having to remind yourself that this is just part of the authors imagination and wont REALLY happen…You hope. Well this book is such that even if it REALLY DID HAPPEN you could deal and you wont be turning it over and over in your head hoping that God does not have such an active imagination.
The characters were all fully formed with emotions and actions that real people would have. I could relate to the characters (well not the gay part as I am straight) but like when one dude finds puppies and gets all happy I could feel the excitement along with him.
The ending felt kinda flat. I would have liked more info on the “Thing” but other wise I felt like the story wrapped up pretty well.
This book is part of a series which I did not know about before I started reading. There are events that are related to events in earlier books so I would recommend reading them in order. I did not feel totally lost but I did feel that I would have gained more from the story had I read the earlier books.
