Iron Canuck Reviews & More: Review Tour: Grandpa's Cabin by Ross Victory with an excerpt, a giveaway, and my review

GRANDPA'S CABIN

by Ross Victory

GENRE: Horror/Mystery

BLURB:

At eighty-four years old, widower and award-winning geneticist Bernie Crenshaw has reached the end of his life. Bernie gifts his only grandson, eighteen-year-old Inglewood high school senior Nova, his multimillion-dollar property located in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills.

Years after Bernie's death, Nova hosts a wild twenty-first birthday party weekend filled with alcohol, music, and OnlyFans web cameras. After a handful of eerie encounters in the surrounding Los Angeles forest, Nova's friends allege that his grandpa's cabin is the burial ground for people who disappeared during their childhood.

The birthday weekend shifts from celebration to terror as the friends piece together that the man Nova knew as "Popsi" matches the profile of one of the most notorious wanted criminals in Los Angeles-"L.A. Love Hunter."

Will Nova preserve the Crenshaw family's sadistic legacy, or will he choose the rare and valuable gift of friendship?

EXCERPT:

Fourteen years ago, Los Angeles

Nova did not understand why first grade had ended early. Dozens of armed security guards descended on the elementary school with their guns drawn. The events of the day, which started with learning to tell time on a silly- framed clock and identifying vowels in sentences, had become disjointed puzzles in Nova’s six-year-old mind, a mind easily distracted by dogs’ tails and why his father shaves his face, but his mother shaves her underarms. Today, his bite-sized body would experience panic, and his mind would be introduced to a modern emotion: terror.

Mr. Woodrow, a frumpy man, only thirty-five but looked sixty, paced the classroom, which was decorated in circus-themed letters and talking numbers. His face was pale and fear-stricken as he explained today’s events to the officers, who observed him with deep suspicion.

“Sir, six-year-old kids don’t just run away from chocolate chip cookies and story time. We need you to breathe and tell us the last time you saw the twins.”

Two chairs, which had been occupied before the recess bell, were now empty. A class of twenty bright-eyed first graders was now eighteen. No one knew where the twins had gone.

After hours of waiting, the class was escorted to the pickup lot, where Nova found his mother, Stella, standing next to their black Range Rover and anxiously biting her left thumbnail down its nail plate.

“Oh, my God!” Stella burst out as she hugged Nova’s frail body tightly. She kissed Nova’s head repeatedly. “Are you okay? You must be so scared.” Nova stood motionless and confused by his mother’s panic.

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Ross Victory is an award-winning author and singer/songwriter from Southern California. After the loss of his father and brother, Ross dove into self-discovery, reigniting his childhood passion for creative writing and music production, launching an independent writing career. Victory has dedicated his life to empowering his community while entertaining listeners and readers. Victory provides a multi-format creative experience in Urban Adult Contemporary music and literature, with a focus on creative non-fiction and thematic novellas. Topics include: adventure, family, religion and philosophy, and identity.

Victory is best known for his father-son memoir, "Views from the Cockpit," and multimedia production brand, "Books & Bangers."

Website: https://www.rossvictory.com

Website: https://www.grandpascabinbook.com

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Grandpa’s Cabin Kindle & Paperback Amazon: https://a.co/d/1IPLVho

Grandpa’s Cabin Paperback BN: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/grandpas-cabin-j-ross-victory/1141823602

Grandpa's Cabin Coloring & Lookbook: Paperback BN: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/grandpas-cabin-coloring-lookbook-j-ross-victory/1143265759

Grandpa’s Cabin Paperback Wal-Mart: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Grandpa-s-Cabin-Book-1-Paperback-9798218017897/3054867599

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GIVEAWAY

Ross Victory will be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner.

http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/28e4345f4663/

My Review - 4 of 5 stars -

This was an interesting read, and it did not end here. There is a book 2. Nova Crenshaw was the beneficiary of his grandfather's home and more. His past held secrets that his mind had pushed to the back, protecting him. His three friends joined him at the mansion, and things got out of control. Hallucinations, memories, and surprises changed their lives completely. This story was not quite what I thought it would be, the actual events were definitely not something I would have considered. More explanation and adventures will continue in Grandpa's Cabin 2.