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.]

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House for the eARC.

This book is so fast paced. It is wild. It is at times gruesome and filled with horror. This book was so much fun.

All I can say is that what I most dislike about reading books this good is that I am so, so sad when they're over. I cannot, cannot wait for the next installment. 2024 is too far away!

I really enjoyed this book! It never slowed down from beginning to end there was suspense and I love books like this! This has crime thriller elements along with supernatural which makes the story unique.

A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose dark powers threaten to destroy them all.

Fever House caught me by surprise. It was an absolute gory delight. I was hooked from the beginning and couldn't wait fir the next chapter to see what was going to happen. I'm not usually a fan of multiple POVs but this was done really well. My only disappointment was I did not know going in there would be a sequel. The book ending on a cliffhanger bummed me out.

Thank you to @netgalley and @randomhouse for allowing me to review this book.

A solid, and excellent book by Keith Rosson. FeveR House is a delightfully gruesome mix of crime and horror and he nails just about every word.

THANK YOU NETGALLEY FOR THIS ARC

This was one of my most anticipated reads and i am really happy with it....in fact this could very well be in my top books of the year. its dark, its gritty, its expertly paced and it hits all the beats in its wake. this was so cinematic too, ugh, this reminds me why i love horror so much

Fever House was not at all what I expected, and I enjoyed every minute! It was creepy and I wondered what was going to happen next throughout the entire book

#FEVERHOUSE is a fun, wild ride. I love a genre mashup and this serves up exceptionally. Small time crime syndicate, demon remnants, evil unleashed in the world, captured angels, and zombies. The book baby if X files met Stranger Things but set now instead of the 80’s. If you love a good story and appreciate your horror perhaps a little understated: fast paced, engaging, gory but not truly terrifying this is a great selection. Compelling likable, flawed characters managing life’s continuously offered disaster sandwich. Plenty of action. I was so engaged in the plot I was occasionally surprised to notice the quality of writing, the turn of a brilliant phrase and then back to the roller coaster ride. Readers who enjoy more dystopian, apocalyptic horror than slashers, this fits the bill perfectly.

When Tim and Hutch go to collect for their gangster boss they discover a severed hand that unleashes untellable evil in Portland.

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 felt like a film noir in book form. It was giving Grindhouse and Pulp Fiction with a paranormal horror twist. There's a small time criminal/bagman, a has-been rockstar widow and her son, a shady black-ops government agency, and a severed hand that drives anyone near it literally mad. I will just say this, don't get too attached to any character in this book, although I think that's going to be nearly impossible because they are all so fleshed out and you will want to root for them, even the shady ones. My only complaint was that even though there was a great cast of characters it was hard to keep up with all of them, and it took me a really long time to finish this book because it just had a lot going on in it. I would love seeing this made into a movie though. Keith Rosson, link up with Quentin Tarantino or Robert Rodriguez please.

Thank you Netgalley, Random House, and Keith Rosson for the eARC.

Fever House is out now!

First, I want to thank NetGalley and Random House for allowing me access to an eARC in exchanged for my honest review.

Fever House is a journey that never goes the way you expect, and it all starts with the hand. A hand and partial forearm hidden in a freezer in a small, run-down apartment. The mystery of why that hand is there is only a small part of the story, but of much greater importance is what that hand can do to you if you hang around it for too long.

Although this premise hits the nail on the head for a great opening to a horror story, Fever House is a lot more than that. First, this is the beginning of a series that I hope will continue to shed light on the dark history of the “Artifacts”, the hand being only the first of several mysteriously powerful dark objects. Second, though truly engaging and dipping a toe into traditional horror, Fever House often seems more like a Noir or Neo Noir than strictly horror. The story also includes a lot of layer peeling, with flashes to characters' pasts and slowly illuminating their histories and motivation.

Critically, I can only say that because of the noir feel the pace seems to plod a bit more than a lot of other horror, but ultimately it is all very engaging. I also felt a little let down by the setup for the second book. This is the point where a noir would reveal where all the clues were really leading, and we’d get maybe a small sense of closure, but it felt like there were still quite a few loose threads. This again is more of a personal preference than a truly unsatisfying ending. Ultimately, I want to start reading the next book, so mission accomplished.

In summation, If you like something a bit occulty, with some shady government types, and nuanced family mystery thrown in, then you will probably enjoy Fever House. I am eagerly anticipating the second installment.

Fever House is easily one of my favorite horror books of the year, and probably one of my favorites of all time.

A brief synopsis won't cut it for this one, and I honestly don't know how to describe the plot. It's a mix of supernatural horror and noir crime – sort of like Constantine mixed with an S. A. Cosby novel. It's gory, gruesome, cinematic, original. We have a ton of characters and different POVs, but they're not hard to keep track of because they all have vivid personalities. If I opened to a chapter at random, I could tell you whose POV it is based on the writing style. That's some great characterization. (Side note, the female characters are really well developed.)

My review is kind of all over the place, but that's because Fever House is just so original and hard to describe. When I want to read horror, this is exactly the type of book I'm hoping for.

I did receive an ARC from Netgalley, but I went out and bought a physical copy because I loved it so much :)

I read many reviews that called this book metal, and that is very appropriate. It hit differently than the other zombie/outbreak books I have read.

Fever House by Keith Rosson takes a dash of rock n’ roll, the happening, and world war z and throws them in a blender and it is wonderful….until it isn’t. There is a lot going on here government conspiracy, remote viewing, subliminal messages attached to a rock song, and trying to find the artifacts causing everything unhinged in Portland. The biggest problem is the ending. It just stops completely

Fever House by Keith Rosson
Genre: Sci-fi horror suspense
A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose dark powers threaten to destroy them all.

There is so much going on in the book. You get so many POVs. The following of mobs, government agency’s, rock and roll, science fiction, demonic possession. It’s such a wild ride and the title is perfect for it. The concept of the Fever House is excellent. The narration also Fantastic. The character development was great. The pacing was perfect throughout the book.

This was a really interesting story and I enjoyed the humor and gore but the ending didn't work for me.

Fever House is a fever dream - gritty, dirty, bloody, scary. It left me with a buzzing in my head that will be with me for a while, I'm sure of it. It explodes straight out of the gate with rage, and it doesn't let up. There are secret agents, severed limbs, riots, songs with subliminal messaging, complicated histories. It starts with a hand that seems to have a deleterious effect on anyone in possession of it - and on anyone in near proximity. The hand exchanges possession several times and leaves wreckage in its wake wherever it goes, and there's not much more I can say that will do this book any justice. I didn't see the end coming at all.

I took my time with this book because I didn't want it to end, but I had no issues with the pacing - it was neither too fast nor too slow. I felt each character was given plenty of attention, but I still find myself wanting to know *more* about them and the shitstorm Rosson created. The end of Fever House left enough room that I feel there could be a sequel in the works, but if not, I will just have to play this one on repeat, over and over and over and

When asked (I’m never asked), I’m happy to share that William Gibson is perhaps my favorite living prose stylist. Gibson’s sentences are razor sharp, crystalline, and muscular, while still remaining beautiful. Gibson stacks these diamond sentences one atop the other and builds whole sprawling worlds.

There’s more than a little of that Gibson-like prose in Keith Rosson’s powerhouse novel Fever House. Many things propelled me through this awesome, violent wonder of a book, but I wanted to take a second to acknowledge that at least one of those things was the tight, unsparing, often beautiful prose.

The conceit of the book is simple enough on its surface. Two mob enforcers go to rough up a junkie for the money he owes their boss. The junkie won’t leave without what he’s got in the freezer. What he has in the freezer is a severed hand that affects everyone in its immediate radius with a “blood fog,” feelings of anger and violence that might be turned against others or one’s self. Our enforcers take the hand. Things go very, very badly.

It turns out that the hand is just one “asset” that was, until very recently, owned by a government shadow agency that uses any number of these supernatural items (and creatures) to gather intelligence. Or maybe it's all to consolidated the power of agent Lundy, the sadistic head of this organization bent on retrieving the hand before all hell breaks loose.

All hell breaks loose.

The opening chapters of Fever House give the reader a distinct feeling of being pulled roughly along by the hand. Short chapters, multiple points of view, and constant brutal action moves everything forward at a propulsive speed.

But about a hundred pages in, rather than being propelled forward, the reader is dropped down a hole. This hole is filled with deep characterization, lore, and intricate connections undreamed of in the opening of the novel. Characters introduced, one suspects, to move the plot forward, that is, to deliver a cursed hand to its next owner, becomes the center of the story, this story spidering out in a hundred directions, in a novel that contains plenty of violence but also family connections, riffs on punk music, psychics, fallen angels, and a city (Portland, Oregon) that has descended into violent chaos.

Rosson’s similarities in prose is not the only connection to William Gibson either. In terms of world building, Fever House, just as much as a sci-fi epic like Neuromancer, drops us into a world that is alien and new, and just lets that world unspool before us. There also happens to be lots of espionage, hackers, and clandestine meetings with salt of the earth people who just happen to have their ear to the pulse of a shadow world that no one suspects exists.

All of this resolves, or refuses to resolve, into something like a zombie apocalypse, but this apocalypse looks eerily familiar. The moment that Portland police are firing at civilians with live ammunition, all while cracking jokes, the parallels to the real-world turmoil of recent years is cemented. The world of Fever House is much like our own: organized and policed by sadists and fools, while the populace is fed a thousand and one poisonous transmissions.

In the end, Fever House is a story about a family torn apart, about trauma and grief, all coated in a sticky-sweet coating of blood and gore. It goes down smooth.

Thank you Random House and NetGalley for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!

This is action packed and fasted paced. I absolutely loved how unique this was and the final twist shook me. There is so much going on here, and this is where I had a few issues. We have occultism, devil hand, fever house, mobs, rogue government agencies, rock bands, riots, police brutality, possible apocalypse, crime drama, crazed collectors, hostages, and on and on. Just ended up being too much for me. I got a bit uninterested at parts because it was throwing a lot at you from numerous POVs. The gore and horror are definitely good, and I overall enjoyed this one. I just feel it could’ve been even better with a bitter more editing.

Also, loved the Murfreesboro shout out! (MTSU alum)

Also, also, I listened to the audiobook along with the ARC, and please do not use the audiobook for this. I don’t know what happened with the narrator, but it is nearly impossible to understand what they are saying even while reading along.