The First Cut

Gushers Series, Book 1

By: Chuck Buda

Narrated by: Lillie Ways

Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's Summary

Boredom and the occult make strange bedfellows.

The popular kids of Tenafly High School were bored with upper-middle-class life. With a few months left before graduation, they made a decision to spice things up. What they intended quickly got away from them.

Aiden is the shy one, the one who follows along quietly. But now, he will find himself forced to stand up to his tormentors or die.

Will the secret society devour the band of friends? How can the members maintain their individuality while submitting themselves to the authoritarian dictates of the cult? And how far are they all willing to go to achieve their own dreams?

The First Cut is an intense cornucopia of occult horror with sexually explicit matter. Fans of shows like True Blood will love this series.

©2016 Chuck Buda (P)2018 Chuck Buda

Not what I was bracing for!

Based on reviews thought this was going to be one of those books that was “not for the faint hearted”. This was maybe entertaining for someone in high school.

I couldn’t do it! 🙁😨

This book is not for the feint of heart. It’s not even for the strong of heart. Chuck buda fingers your emotions throughout the listen. One minute you are super excited about Zoe’s sinister plans the next you are as depressed as Adian. The complete disgust for yourself is crafted beautifully by Chuck. I loved all of the characters... a bit too much. Chuck paints a world so vivid that it just rips out tour heart when bad things happen to the characters, or more aptly when the characters reflect on what they had just been apart of. Jesus Christ I recommend this to the most deranged and sick out there. You want sex there’s Erotica quite good ones too. You want violence there’s Pay Up And Die great ending fight in that one, it is awesome. I haven’t felt like this for a long time. My heart is low and horrors of this book play in my mind. No other book has made me feel like this. So bravo Chuck for so masterfully ripping my heart out and making me enjoy the sensation but regret the act. Congratulations to Lillie ways for not only reading this and remaining sane but for doing the sequel as well. I am going to watch funny cat videos to try and wash my brain. God damn I love/hate this. 🤨

These Cultists Will Do You Right...And Then Wrong!

Do you like a little bit of horror in your pornography? Or maybe a lot of pornography in your horror? Because if so, hoo boy, Chuck Buda has got a doozy for you with the first in his aptly titled Gushers series, The First Cut.

What ever are a bunch of sex-starved high school seniors supposed to do as they bide their time for graduation and the start of college but form a secret society among themselves to get their rocks off? What seems like a good idea quickly escalates into something more as power-hungry Zoe leads them off into darker realms with some cult-like practices, with some support from her second-in-command Spencer, a young man with a strong interest in the Dark Arts, and a lot of hot tub orgies. A lot. Of hot tub. Orgies.

The First Cut comes with a reader advisory warning, and Buda ain't messing around there. This sucker is explicit in its erotic endeavors and nothing is left to the imagination as Zoe leads all the boys around by their nether regions, and even a pair of the kid's parents engage in some secret extramarital shenanigans. There's plenty of taboo titillation throughout, but since this is a horror book some scenes veer pretty far from the Penthouse Letters style as these characters' hook-ups go from amorous to aberrant. All kinds of bodily fluids gush and spill and mix together as the group seek new thrills and new highs.

Cutting through all the sex and violence is a surprisingly sweet center in Aiden and Leah, the quiet ones of the group who find their friendship deepening and blossoming into something more meaningful as their closest friends grow ever more hedonistic. Their relationship isn't without its fair share of complications, obviously - being in an insane sex cult presents its own fair share of hurdles - but Buda makes good use of their position in the story as the moral middle, their mostly-normal relationship providing a necessary and much-needed break from the more extreme craziness.

Narrating all this madness is Lillie Ways, who delivers an even-keel and professional reading. She differentiates character voices enough to make those conversations lacking dialogue tags easy to follow, and keeps the book's 54 short chapters moving along a nice pace for its six hour run-time. All in all, The First Cut provides a pleasing, at times surprising, aural experience.

Readers looking for some hot-and-heavy erotic horror in the split veined style of the Hot Blood anthologies should have a good time with The First Cut. These cherry-popping cultists will do you right...just before they do you very, very wrong.