J.F. Gonzalez The Beloved

J. F. Gonzalez The Beloved

Plot: Ronnie Baker thought his new girlfriend was perfect. But he couldn't see what his family did - that Diana and her children weren't quite normal, that somehow she was slowly sucking away his time, his money ...his life.

Don Grant has been tracking the creature ever since it turned his wife into something barely more than a living zombie. He's traced its mayhem back for centuries. Feeding off lust and violence, it grows stronger and more seductive with each life it drains. Now he's finally caught up with it. But unless he can find a way to stop it - fast - the nightmare will be unleashed on a whole new family.

My Review and Thoughts:


This plays out a lot different then J.F. Gonzalez first novel Survivor which was mixed with nothing but hard core violence throughout with this one he chooses to build the characters in there everyday lives and struggles. The prologue as was in Survivor starts out perfect and leaves you with enough horror to read on wanting more. The gifted talent of weaving a story together and holding the reader is something many authors sadly fail at in that they just give filler to build more pages to the novel. What Gonzalez does is weave the back story, the present soap opera drama to build and let you understand each player so they grow on you and when something happens to them it feels more dramatic and more appealing. 

You have spent time with them you have grown with the build up of the character and so Gonzalez has given the emotional appeal to the players and when the horror hits the fan it becomes more real to the reader. Gonzales in his writing as an author explores the deep dark recesses of the inner soul. His writing opens the deep portals of the ID and Ego and Super Ego. He lances the festering darkness in us all spilling out the darker side of existence.

His writing is monumental in it's force and blunt nature leaving nothing to the imagination of the reader, his talent supplies it all as he adventures from one book to the other. I like reading in the dark with a book light giving it all the wonderful effect. This book is very spooky, very dark and mysterious and deep. I like how in this book Gonzalez gives just a little horror at certain moments building up to the main showdown. Slowly the small bits cling to the reader to continue down into the dark horror waiting slowly to burst out from the page.

You know how Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bloch's Psycho did the famous shower scene, the viewer or reader is dumb founded and like wow they just changed the movie, that is the powerful shock appeal that floors the reader in this book. Gonzalez is able to place all the buttons to start as you turn each page and then boom boom boom twist and turns around every corner. 

Gonzales is a writing genius and a talented artist in the world of perfect imagination, this mixes elements of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the legend of the Succubus and also the realm of the Vampire and also an over the wall originality that truly creeps out the reader. This monster is a new true monster icon, the nameless will forever be apart of my thinking pattern. I have learned something from this book and that's forget about online dating and hookups. The whole book works and as always Gonzalez does it again, a truly original memorable book that will linger inside my brain forever.