This was awesome. Gruesome, brutal, and relentless. This is definitely an author I'll be watching and I can't wait to see where the story goes in the upcoming sequel.

This is a great book. I had the author, Keith Rosson, on my podcast "Rock & Roll Nightmares" to talk about it.

One thing about this book is it’ll sink its little grubby fingers right into you… almost like it’s a metaphysical force captivating your attention.

This book has a mix of horror, gore, conspiracy, and WTF moments that will keep you hooked. I knew as soon as Don disappeared all hell was about to break loose.

What a pleasant surprise in the horror/crime genre! I haven't read a horror book in a while so I came into it not knowing what to expect. I felt like I was reading the script to a movie - and a good one at that!
Things center around a severed hand that makes people around it lose their minds and do crazy, sometimes horrible things. The characters were so well developed and quite enjoyable. Due to the horror nature of the book, I caution against getting too attached to them though!
There are a lot of characters, and at first I had a hard time juggling them all. It got easier as I kept reading.
Great, solid addition to the genre and thankful for the ARC!

Fever House (August 2023) is book one in a two-book series (a duology). Like many of Rosson’s novels, Fever House is not easily categorized. It is a dark gritty crime story, but also a horror story and an apocalyptic survival story.

Fever House starts out with Hutch and Tim “killing time, waiting for some poor guy to come home so they can terrify him and, if necessary, perform grievous harm to the fragile architecture of the man’s body.” In short, they are debt enforcers, tough guys, hoods. Hutch is the philosopher of the two as if either of them ever obtained a degree in deep thought and he is amazed at the kinds of people they encounter in their line of work and how often they are just ordinary guys who have run into stupid trouble. “They’re both a wrong look away from going back to prison.” And often collecting either goes quickly or it means making a guy’s face into a pulped mess. Their boss is Peach Serrano. “Life runs the table and you just try to keep up.”

And everything changes, no just for them, but for everybody, when their collection nets them a paper bag with a freaking hand in it. The hand we later learn is one of three artifacts that are perhaps better off never touched. It is a terrible power that emanates from it, making bloodlust and violence commonplace.

And, there is a black ops agency sending out John Bonner to track down the hand. It is perhaps, though, the devil’s hand, isn’t it? You know, a disembodied hand that can make you want to chop your own hand off and try to replace it with – this special hand. It’s that kind of hand.

Nick Coffin is the man of the moment, though, because (and get that appropriate name) he gets the hand and keeps it. But Nick’s parents are Katherine Moriarty and Matthew Coffin, and they were in Blank Letters, the band. Matthew though took a dive into the river from a high bridge some years earlier. That just leaves Katherine to look after things and she has a phobia where she cannot leave the area of their apartment which limits her movements once the apartment is raided by black ops operatives looking for the hand, the devil’s artifact.

But that leaves two more artifacts, the eye and the voice. And the fever that will burn the world. This novel brilliantly starts out as a run-of-the-mill crime story, but just keeps getting crazier and crazier as you fall down the rabbit hole and realize that there is no way out but forward.

This was one of the most badass books I have read in awhile! A special thanks to NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to enjoy it. It was definitely metal! Rock on.

Fever House is a bit of an uncontrolled wild ride, as Hutch discovers a missing hand and quickly looks to offload it. The characters are varied, and the plot keeps building toward a conclusion. It is a bit easy to get lost in all the characters, government group, occult type discussions and the chaotic plot. It is an interesting story though, so I needed to finish the book!

#FeverHouse #NetGalley.

FUN fun fun fun!! fast-paced, super entertaining, i couldn't wait to see where this was headed next after each chapter.

Freaky! I had to read it in daylight, which is always a sign for a great horror book. Loved the combo of a rock band with Satanic tendencies. Love how each chapter is labeled with who it is about since that helped me keep track. Hutch is my fav--badass who tries so hard to solve things at the end. I ended up hating Nick's dad Matthew since he seems weak. The dark-op government groups that track down the remnants is awesome and will make the conspiracy nuts happy. The design of the book is great, too!

I liked the idea behind the book - a crook getting way over his head and involved in supernatural elements. However, their were too many different viewpoints and tangents, making the novel a lot longer than it needed to be.

This would have. Been a very good book at half the length. As it is it just goes on way too long. And Rosson interrupts the flow of the book repeatedly by going into what appear to be irrelevant lengthy discourses on the back story of most of the key characters. Just didn't seem necessary - at least for me. Also it leaves a lot of unanswered questions which may be resolved in the next of the series but I felt that after getting through a 400 plus page book there would be closure on some issues.

DNF @33%

This book just wasn’t for me. I don’t think it was bad. It was written well and was intriguing, but it is very gory and not very character driven so i got bored pretty quickly. Definitely an interesting story for other people!

A pair of henchmen collecting a debt stumble upon a severed hand in the apartment and decide to leave with it. This is the start of a series of terrible events involving people desperate to retrieve the hand:
-Nick Coffin’s boss Peach who likes to collect unusual things
-One of the henchmen, after he’s grievously hurt, and
-A covert group in the government, called Operation Halflight, staffed from their manager on down with what appear to be psychopaths.

Along the way, Nick’s mother Katherine Moriarty, former singer/songwriter for a band and now suffering from agoraphobia, is taken into custody and threatened by Halflight agents. Elsewhere, several people, in proximity to the hand, die, and then things get really bad.

The hand has supernatural/mystical properties that bring out the worst in people, and Halflight wants the hand back in their custody, so they can continue their researches into it, guided unwillingly by their brutalized captive Michael, whom they’ve harmed for years by chopping off his wings.

There are many characters, all increasingly scared, angry, and violent as the story progresses. Author Keith Rosson has given his characters and the weird stuff depth; it feels plausible that a supernatural being is being held in deep secrecy so its knowledge can be harvested for human use, likely for weapons development, based on certain characters’ comments.

There are few likeable characters in this story, except for Katherine, who has struggled enormously since her musician/band manager husband died. She is held without cause while members of Halflight run around Portland failing to recover the hand. The owner of which is revealed partway…

Interestingly, Rosson gives us small bits of information about Katherine and her dead husband’s relationship, and his deep interest in the occult, all of which is gradually tied back to the hand, making this evil hand and escalating horror story a family drama at its heart.

Did I like this? I liked Katherine, and the many other interesting supporting characters, but I’m not sure whether or not I’ll continue the series, as the story didn’t fully click with me.

Thank you to Netgalley and to Random House Publishing Group - Random House for this ARC in exchange for my review.

Well wow. This was such a chaotic ride that I couldn’t get off of. It was like X-Files with zombies and punk rock. The ending is crazy. I’m dying to read the sequel because I must know what happens.

The amount of times I said “this book is bonkers” while reading this was unbelievable. In the best way possible.
This book is bonkers, it's insane, chaotic, adventurous and put together incredibly well.

Essentially the story surrounds a government agency and a severed hand that has powers. The hand makes people do things… act strangely, violently and well, kinda bonkers (see a theme here?). And of course, the hand has made its way to the general public. And by the general public, I mean criminals, old punk singers, drug addicts and the like. Chaos ensues, clearly.

This book was so well written. It sounds insane (and felt kind of insane) but Keith firmly keeps the story under control and on point, as much as necessary. I ripped through this one, anxiously waiting to see what he'd throw at us next. It was an awesome, awesome journey and I can't wait to read more of his books!

Pick this one up if you're a fan of bonkers horror 😂

Thank you NetGalley, Keith Rosson and Random House Publishing for a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest opinion!

This book is sharp, shocking, gritty, feverishly paced, and unforgettable. Splatterpunky crime goodness all around. Highly recommended and a thrill to read.

I had no idea rock n roll horror was a thing but I gotta tell ya, I’m a huge fan now. Fever House was an incredibly unique book but, as a huge horror fan, it was also as comforting to get into as my favorite pair of tattered old pajamas. And I mean that in the best way possible. It’s full of nonstop action (and some pretty gruesome stuff at that) but I could not wait to pick it up at the end of the day. I truly cannot wait for the next installment in the series.

This was one twisted mystery horror novel, and more or less in the good-twisted sort of way. Apologies to the author for not reviewing it immediately after I read it and having more to say.

I liked the writing style. Shades of Ellroy. This was Tarantino, From Dusk till Dawn type horror. Trouble was that it wanted to be rock and roll but ended up kind of accidentally being high camp in a non-ironic way. Tone is really hard in horror. The ending wasn't an ending, but maybe he's planning a sequel???

It doesn't get much more splatterpunky than Fever House. I saved this imagery-rich and gore-redolent novel for Halloween. Am I glad I did? I'm still unraveling the plot and its many, many characters, including has-been punk rock stars; dark, winged oracles; black ops sociopaths; a drug lord's sympathetic leg-breaker; and disembodied body parts, first and foremost a hand that belongs to a lesser devil. Portland, Oregon, becomes ground zero for a zombie-infested hell on earth. I'm not sleeping well. That said, I recommend Fever House to those who like their horror fiction graphic, gory, and infused with entertaining dialog and high-stakes action.

[Thanks to Random House and NetGalley for an opportunity to read an advanced reader copy and share my opinion of this book.]