Iron Canuck Reviews & More: Review Tour: HE. by Gregory Pakis with an excerpt, a giveaway, and my review

HE.

by Gregory Pakis

GENRE: Erotic Horror

BLURB:

A sexually open-minded couple, Lester and Val, have recently moved into a stylish yet eerie apartment building.

Val's curiosity is piqued when she starts to receive unusual messages and requests from an anonymous messenger.

Lester is also cautiously intrigued, as Val starts to fulfill the requests.

A suspected sex club soon becomes media headlines when a former member disappears, and the club is reported to have vacated its last premises.

As the messages persist, Lester and Val start to question whether the anonymous messenger is connected to the clandestine club mentioned in the media, and if there is any link between him or the club and the odd newcomers in the apartment next door.

EXCERPT:

She sat on the couch and stared across the room. Three men sitting opposite watched her closely. Seemingly daring each other to make the first move. None of them summoned the courage. It was understandable. Her beauty was unsettling.

The kind you’d see in a dream. She had a fixed distant stare. She held her space well. Her presence was elusive. Intimidating. You couldn’t quite describe it. Couldn’t be entirely sure about her. She had a nervousness that made her approachable, but then a look in her eye stopped you cold.

Seated nearby, a bespectacled man also watched the woman.

her husband

Couples and singles moved about the party – chatting, flirting, but this man just sat watching her, pretending not to. If you paid attention long enough, you realised the woman was completely aware he was watching.

maybe he is just her boyfriend

they did arrive at the party together, didn’t they

One of the men whispered to the others that he had seen them at a previous party. That they didn’t ‘play’ on that occasion either.

maybe they were just friends

If the man was her partner and approaching her led to some kind of confrontation, he looked easy enough to handle.

there’s three of us..

But the man watching had a fastidious, aggressive quality that was strangely unsettling. Had a striking face. Was well-groomed and gym fit.

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

BIO

Gregory Pakis is an Australian author, film-maker, actor and wacky vlogger.

He has written the short story, The Lonely Australian of the Asian Night; the soon to be released horror-suspense novellas, The Regressor and He., and Memoir of a Suburban Hoe-Bo, which is partly an account of when he lived out of a van for ten years in Melbourne.

Gregory Pakis is also the writer / director of the feature films, The Garth Method (2005) and The Joe Manifesto (2013), which have won national and international awards and been distributed through Accent Entertainment, Label, Vanguard Cinema.

Gregory's more informal video projects are the feature documentaries, Garth Goes Hitch-Hiking (2007) and Garth Lives in a Van (2011) which have screened at film festivals in Australia.

More recently, he has created the comedy series, suBURPieS and his Wacky Vlog which can found on his socials.

Gregory has been featured in articles in newspapers, The Age, The Herald Sun, Beat Magazine, Inpress, FILMINK, and the Neos Kosmos. He has been interviewed on radio by the ABC, 3RRR, SYN FM, 3CR.

HE. LINKS

AMAZON SALES LINK https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJYRJK5W

BOOK TRAILER https://youtu.be/Kmzbq39uREY

AUTHOR CHAT TO CAMERA VIDEO https://youtu.be/gb76iJdAUak

WEB PAGE (WITH MEDIA KIT) https://www.gpak.org/books/he

CONTACT GREGORY PAKIS

info@gpak.org

SITES

BOOKS https://www.gpak.org/

FILMS https://guerillafilmnite.com/

SOCIALS

Instagram / https://www.instagram.com/gregorypakis/

Tik Tok / https://www.tiktok.com/@gregorypakis

Facebook / https://www.facebook.com/gpakis

X / https://x.com/GPakis

YouTube / https://www.youtube.com/@Films_Books._Vlogs

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GIVEAWAY

The author will be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner.

http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/28e4345f5033/

My Review - 4 of 5 stars -

This was different and steamy with an odd ending. Val and Lester were experimenting to liven up their love life. Val observed her new neighbors arrive, and then strange things began to happen. Val felt drawn to them along with a secret admirer who wanted her to transform. I was a bit confused as to what the end result was, and this took away from my reading experience. Not a usual story.