Going Down

By: Tom G.H. Adams

Narrated by: Tom Adams

Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins

Publisher's summary

Bram Johnstone likes to think he’s a good person. But does a "nice guy" stalk the girl of his dreams? Does he follow her to the library, to university lectures - in fact everywhere - simply to glimpse her shapely curves? To what lengths would he go just to engineer a situation where he’s in close proximity to the fair Maddie - even if only for a couple of precious minutes?

As luck would have it, such an opportunity arises. One evening, Bram finds himself in the same lift as Maddie. On the way up he gets to observe her, smell her perfume, even talk to her. There are a few flies in the ointment of this gift scenario, however. The object of his affections is accompanied by a friend. To add to Bram’s irritation, the most available babe-magnet on campus muscles in on the lift threesome and imposes his well-honed chat-up lines on Maddie. Funny how your dreams can turn sour in an instant.

But dreams can turn from sour to putrid. The lift malfunctions and becomes stranded between two floors of the 80 story student block - and something very large lands on the lift roof. Something that slobbers and snarls. Something that eats students. Whatever it is, the thing isn’t operating alone. Over the emergency intercom, a tormentor makes himself known, someone who directs and orchestrates the murderous intents of the thing that’s made planetfall on the students’ little world.

As the minutes tick by on a countdown that can only end with them becoming meat for this murderous pair, Bram discovers that when it comes to stalking - he’s just an amateur. From the author of The Psychonaut trilogy and Mycophoria, comes a novella of breath-taking intensity. Just when you thought the lift was ascending, it ends up plunging further down into your deepest nightmare.

After listening to this book, you’ll probably want to take the stairs.

©2019 Tom GH Adams (P)2020 Tom GH Adams

Going Down

Regrettably, I did not fully enjoy this book. I wanted to, but I knew going in that the premise would be made or broken by the character-building within the story and it never jelled for me. The narration was pretty good. It was the thing that kept me involved in the story. The writing was not bad, but the plot had some weird holes in it and the actual characters were just begging to be murdered in some horrendous way. Well, maybe I was begging for that... either way. This was not for me, but it will be for other horror fans.

This book was given to me on request for my unbiased opinion.

The road to ruin!

This is a fairly simple horror story, not bad but nothing to rave about. Our male student-lead Bram had a crush on female student Maddie. He tried many ways to get noticed and or get closer to Maddie. This compulsion may be the death of him. Maddie’s girlfriend Belinda is caught up in the terrifying situation along with another male student named Jamie. Jamie, as it turns out, plays a cameo role. Cranston and his brother, who is lovingly called Bugalug, are the antagonists. The horror you are presented with is an interesting read but I wouldn’t go so far as saying it is of a breath-taking intensity. Three.point.five. I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

This one was so well done I kept seeing it as a movie in my mind

I live when you read or listen to a book and your mind just automatically Turns it into
A movie in your head. When the writing and the narration blend so well it makes
For a truly great experience. You have here a couple of college kids that run the usual gambit
Of horror stereotypes. Trapped inside dorm elevator and at the mercy of a madman and his deformed brother a duo of creatures whose tastes and strengths are terrible. Really well done with backstory, characters you can love, Hate and love to hate. It’s got all the jump points one could expect and all the necessary twists. Highly recommend this tale. I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator or publisher

If you thought the worst that could happen is bein

Imagine being a teenage boy“In love“ and being stuck in the elevator with a girl you love her best friend and the“Cool guy.” Now imagine the “cool guy“ wasn’t the biggest monster in the elevator… This book was so good I thought it would be a straight forward story of people being taken out by a treacherous monster, but no there’s more to it than that and I loved all of it. If this is the kind of horror Tom Adams rights then signed me up. I thought the narrator did an awesome job and he had the perfect voice for this horrific tail and I love to say what a perfect plot and a perfect narrator makes for a perfect audiobook and that’s what this is. That is why I gave it five stars in every category. It doesn’t get much better than this.

Going Down

I tried,I just couldn't wrap my brain around this one.I tried several times.Narration by Tom Adams was good.I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Terrific horror--complete with monster!

"Going Down" (2019, 2021) by Tom G.H. Adams is a terrific, old-fashioned horror novella about four college students fighting for their lives in a suspended elevator. A huge, ravenous monster is at the top of the elevator, repeatedly struggling to squeeze through the escape hatch. The monster’s master is a murderous psychopath who wants to terrorize the students and kill them…slowly. Plenty of backstory for all the main characters. Tom Adams’ narration is brilliant. Not for the squeamish. Highly recommended. At my request, I was given this free audiobook and have voluntarily left this review.