The Venue

A Wedding Novel

De: T.J. Payne

Narrado por: P.J. Morgan

Welcome to the Venue - a place where the super rich can get away from it all...and get away with anything they want.

You're invited to Caleb Hunt's wedding!

Sure, you haven't spoken since you two had a falling out in high school, but Caleb has gotten over that. He's a forgiving person. It was all a misunderstanding. He credits you with turning him into the man he is today.

He wants to repay you and everyone else from his life with an invitation to his destination wedding.

An all-expense paid trip to a luxurious resort. High up in the Alps. Secluded and private.

Please RSVP. It's sure to be a killer party.

The newest gleefully violent release from the writer of Intercepts and In My Father's Basement. Rollicking dark, twisted fun!

©2020 T.J. Payne (P)2020 T.J. Payne

Till death

Intercepts was my favourite horror novel last year and venue is on the shortlist for 2020

This is definitely one of the most original Extreme horrors out there
Well narrated and a highly recommended action packed bloodbath
I received a free review audiobook and voluntarily left this review

SPEECHLESS...

I don't really know where to even begin with this book. I have so many thoughts, feelings and concerns. I'll just keep it simple. Great book but read at your own risk as it can be quite disturbing.

Fun suspense with an entertaining premise

This was a really fun book. The suspense was definitely on point and the narrator had great pacing to match it. Really enjoyed the story and the general mayhem in every chapter. Play it on a road trip or buy the novel for an entertaining vacation read.

The Wedding From Hell

When Amy gets an invitation for her old friend, Caleb’s, wedding. She’s not sure what to think. They had been close once but had fallen out a long time before. She considers going but when it comes to her attention that her parents have been invited as well, she’s suspicious. Her parents and ex convince her to go though. When they get there, Caleb seems strange and his fiancé, Lilith, is even stranger. Then the festivities begin, and people begin to die.

TJ Payne is quickly becoming a favorite psychological horror author of mine. After Intercepts, I was excited to check out this book. And it did not disappoint. To me, it was like a cross between the movie Would You Rather and Ready or Not.

I wasn’t sure who I wanted to root for. The characters were well-written, and the plot was engrossing. Lilith and Caleb were wonderfully eccentric characters, but at the same time, I wanted to root for Amy. She was a perfect final girl.

Plenty of blood, gore, and suspense. This was a book I had to finish in one setting.

Narration was perfect for this story.

This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.

Count me in!

An insane wedding and a beautiful lesbian love story in one. I'm here for it.

predictable but fun

This was one of those stories where we are able to figure out within the first half hour what the story will be about and who the good guys and bad guys are. That's okay, though, because the author takes us along on a campy horror romp with plenty of blood and gore. If you're willing to let the author stretch plausibility a bit to get the players arranged on the chessboard at the right place and time, you'll be rewarded with some unpredictability as the plot unfolds. A popular trope in horror is that mean people (bullies, snobs, bitchy ex-boy/girlfriends, abusive parents, etc.) die horrible deaths, so the moral of the story is: don't be a jerk, because you never know if the person you're being a jerk to is a psycho killer who will exact revenge at some future point. A codicil to this is that you might actually be a non-jerk person but a psycho killer might misinterpret something you said or did and target you anyway. I like that kind of irony. The narration was good, and it was easy to get caught up in the story (I increased playback speed slightly to suit my personal preferences).

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

TJ Payne delivers again!

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

TJ Payne is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors! This is the third book of his that I have listened to and it did not disappoint. What I like about Payne is that each book has been unique. Intercepts was a great horror sci-fi story. In My Father's Basement was a very intriguing character study of a serial killer. Now TJ presents us with The Venue - the story of a, shall we say, "unorthodox" wedding that only TJ Payne could conceive.

Right from the start you can tell that Caleb, the groom to be, is a bit unstable, to say the least. So unstable that he chooses to celebrate his wedding day by thrusting his ex Amy into a bloodbath. I don't want to venture into spoiler territory so you'll have to find the rest of the story out for yourself. I highly, highly recommend this book if you're a fan of horror novels that are somewhat grounded in reality, and I especially recommend it to anyone who's a fan of any of TJ Payne's prior works.

Bloody Good Time

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Yes! This was definitely a thrill ride. From the very beginning, I knew I was not going to be able to stop listening. It was remarkably gory, but not just for the sake of throwing in some gore to keep the audience's attention. It was, literally, a bloody fun time.

EXCELLENT READ!

I absolutely loved it! The narration was excellent and kept me entertained! The author did an excellent job with the character builds and plot! I look forward to reading more books by this author! I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Better than expected!

Very good. I thought the gore would upset me but the author explains everything very eloquently!