This is a truly bizarre zombie like horror story- perfect for fans of Nick Cutter. It is chaotic and messy and definitely creepy. I enjoyed the multiple perspectives and time hops. They were easy to follow and gave a lot of important context. I got a little lost around 75% in where things started happening really quickly without a lot of explanation. I was expecting a bit more closure than the ending provided, especially for how long the book is. I think 75 pages probably could have been cut out or used to wrap up the other remnant stories. This is a fun read for horror book clubs because there is a lot to discuss.

FEVER HOUSE is a diabolic delight of deranged devilry. It's creepy and thrilling, with savage stakes and chaos and gore, galore. Keith Rosson has written a terrifying, imaginative story with an occult mythos of mayhem and mischief that takes you on a hellish ride yet leaves you wanting more.

A man finds a hand in a refrigerator and it causes uncontrollable chaos for anyone who touches it. I kinda lose the story after that point sadly…

I completely devoured this book! It had all the components I have been looking for in a paranormal, government conspiracy, demonic, zombie holocaust. I also enjoyed the back stories of the characters, because it made me appreciate them and care about them.
This book has multiple points of view of events that take place regarding potentially demonic remnants, including a hand that makes people angry and have bloodlust. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves horror, demonic cults, and government black-ops programs.

Welcome to a game of non-consensual hot potato with a demonic hand that urges you to choose violence!

I’m sure there are a lot of people who love this book. It’s been all over my Booksta and I’ve seen it on several “must-read” lists, especially with spooky reading season coming up. I just wasn’t that thrilled with it. It had some great parts, but I felt like there was just too much filler material. I also guessed who the demonic hand belonged to very early on in the book, and I absolutely hated the ending. I really can’t tell you how much I hated the ending.

I just really wish it had been shorter and had the ability to keep my attention. It feels like hours I can’t get back.

I was provided a copy of this title by NetGalley and the author. All thoughts, opinions, views, and ideas expressed herein are mine and mine alone. Personal policy dictates that since this title was rated three stars or lower this review will not appear on social media.

If you like horror, conspiracy theories, zombies, demons (maybe angels?), MK Ultra vibes, BLM protests, metal music, body horror, and sci-fi, all at the same time, then you will love this one. I enjoy stories with all of those elements, don't get me wrong, but I don't think I liked all of them glommed together.

Fever House felt like a design challenge on a competition TV show. You know how there's always one contestant who just keeps adding elements onto their design when they really should just step back and call it good? Fever House felt like a piece that was made by a talented designer with a well-constructed design, but those strong elements were just muddied by extras. Had two or three elements been stripped back, this book would've knocked it out of the park. For me, it was just too busy which muddied down the story.

Characters were rich and compelling, but they got swallowed whole by the story. If anything, Fever House felt to me more like a collection of vignettes moving at a breakneck pace with a kind of through line.

This book keeps you sprinting, and you better not get too attached to anyone because they drop like flies without any warning. This definitely added to the unpredictable fun of the story, but sometimes it felt like characters were dying only because their plot lines hit dead ends rather than being fully wrapped with a satisfying character arc.

Just because I didn't love this book doesn't mean that you won't! Just get ready for a lot of a lot all at once.

Thank you to Random House and NetGalley for the ARC I received for this book.

I DNF’ed this baby at 76%…. For now. But hear me out.

This was a well written book. Seriously, it was. The descriptions are super on point, and the characters are well drawn out with super creative and interlocking backstories. It’s a complicated ride, one you may want to take notes for, since it is rich in characters and side stories. There is a lot going on (that’s an understatement,) but if this subject matter interests you there’s so much meat to chew on that you’ll probably never be bored.

This book, however, was not for me. I don’t know what it is, but I get really confused about organizations, secret government powers, things like that. At times, it was difficult to follow, but I don’t attribute this to any fault of the author’s or any problems with the book itself. I simply think I wasn’t the proper audience for it. Saint Michael is one of the aspects of the story that I enjoyed a lot, as well as Nick and his mom Catherine. But the landslide of information here primarily focused on topics that I- quite frankly- don’t understand nor really care about. Those topics just aren’t in my wheelhouse of interests. It’s still a pretty intense book, full of drama and deceit and crime. Fans of action-suspense-thrillers will eat this up, and of course it’s not without its horror elements, either.

The hand, for example. The mysterious hand that makes you feel ways that you just… don’t want to feel. It’s coveted, of course, hence the sequence of wild goose chases that become integral to the plot. EVERYBODY wants this hand for some reason, and if you don’t give it to them there’s going to be hell to pay. How can a severed hand be such a game changer? This will be revealed, but it was a premise I had never heard of before, and I think the fact that this was able to be worked in with the other aspects of this book was brilliant. The blend here of crime and a… weird, amputated appendage speaks volumes as to why so many will find this undyingly interesting.

So, is it a bad book? NO. Not by any means! The only critique I really have when it comes to the writing is some internal character monologues seem to ramble for pages on end, as if there’s a lot more information presented than was required for a particular point in the story. Other than that, it’s not that I didn’t enjoy this one. It’s more so I was not its intended audience. Heavy physical action, along with government-centric plot lines aren’t exactly my bread and butter.

That said, there’s certainly something in here for everyone, and I would like to return to these characters when the next books in this to-be series come out.

Fever House was released to the world yesterday, on August 15th, and is now available!

Brutal and brilliant, Fever House by Keith Rosson is a feast of fantastical horror that fans of the genre will be eager to devour.

I went into this blind, without having read the synopsis, and I can't tell you what a wild and fun ride THAT was. I highly recommend other readers do the same. Fever House is everything you could ever want in a horror novel. I think it will make my top 5 of the year. Thank you to Netgalley and Random House for the chance to review this advance copy. Fever House is available for purchase everywhere you buy books now!

Yall!
This book is an absolute BANGER!
And please let's take a moment to appreciate that cover!🤘🤘🤘

And yes, I realize that term is typically associated with music, but the musical influences within this book are pure metal. I want this to be a movie so badly... and I want to hear the soundtrack for it!!

The level of intensity in this book... is just insane. To be frank, it's nearly impossible for me to sum this up into a coherent review... I'll give it a shot...but seriously just buy it and read it yourself because I simply am incapable of doing it justice.

FEVER HOUSE is packed with grit, grime, and gore. It is incredibly fast-paced, and yet Rosson still delivered great development of the storyline and its many characters... and trust me, there are quite a few. You're gonna love some, and others there will be no love lost when he offs them!

FEVER HOUSE beautifully melds together crime with horror, so this book is versatile. And will appeal to different types of readers.

My one complaint, and it's not even a legitimate complaint... is that now I have to wait for book 2. That's it... that's all I got. I'm not even going to complain about how long it was because it moves so fast that I honestly didn't care.

If you have to pick one book to read this year, let it be this one. I guarantee that in a literary world full of the same old trope after the same old trope, this BOOK will be unlike anything else you read this year.

As always, thank you to the publisher and netgalley for providing me a copy in exchange for an honest review.

This book was intense. Sooo much action, so many characters.

It had leg-breakers, agents from a shadow government agency, a demonic severed hand, an alien/creature with wings, and a former punk rock singer who’s afraid to venture past the neighborhood surrounding her apartment.

Atmospheric writing, set in Portland, Oregon
Alternating POV with a plethora of characters

A lot of characters are thrown at you in the beginning to where it was hard to keep track of who’s who and how they are connected.

One thought kept echoing in my mind while reading this book - this is chaotic metal.
This book was gritty, dark, twisted, and had a decent serving of gore.

Note - this book is the start of a series that’ll have at least one more book. Keep that in mind for the last 5% of the book, so you aren’t wondering about any loose ends like I did at first lol

I loved Hutch & Tim 💕

Thank you @Netgalley and @RandomHouse for providing me with an eARC in exchange for my honest review.

Post to my Instagram (rolandreviews) and Goodreads (Katie&Roland) on 08/15/23

Fever House’s blurb starts with “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.” I honestly couldn’t describe this book any better. What I will say is this is some messed up stuff! (I’d use three other words but two of them would be expletives, lol.) And I mean that in the best possible way. Seriously…wow. As I said I can’t describe this book any better or say how much I enjoyed it, not without spoiling the experience. From the opening chapters when two mob thumb breakers try to collect from a deranged crackhead and end up with more than they bargained for I was hooked. The story is gripping, gritty, and without question brutal. It takes some crazy turns and I loved every second of it. This was the first book I’ve read by Keith Rosson but if this book is an example of the caliber of all his work consider me a new diehard fan. I’d like to thank Random House Publishing Group - Random House, and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review an eARC of Fever House.

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This is a must read horror/crime thriller. An original premise and creative execution. Graphic, violent, and action packed. I did get a bit bored with all of the narration, and that's just a personal preference. I will 100% be reading more by Keith Rosson.

Thank you for allowing me to read this ARC.

Fever House was a lot more gruesome and grittier than my usual reads and I could not get into it the way I wanted. I think it would work better as an action movie but I couldn’t get into reading it for some reason.

This was really great book. It's one of those where you think you know where it's going, and then it takes a turn, and becomes something else. I really enjoyed the characters and reading their backstory's and how they all came together in the present story. This book was fun and a great read, but admittedly the last act wasn't quite as intriguing. I was wishing to go back to earlier events and follow some things there. This was a great book and if the synopsis intrigues you, I recommend you read this book.

I honestly don't know what to make of this novel that ping pongs around between horror and thriller (well, it's really both). There's a demon severed hand, there are bad guys, there are government agents, there are conspriracies, there's a quest, Then there's Hutch, Nick, and Katherine- the most fleshed out characters (except for the hand) I'm not sure how to characterize this or how to recommend it as I think it might be a love it or leave it kind of read, Thanks to netgalley for the ARC. Fans of Rosson and those looking for something, ahem, different will be pleased.

Amazing book. I love the classic horror aspects to it but with an unique twist. The ending was ok but overall an awesome book. It was a quick pace book that kept me on the edge of my seat. Gross, horrifying and supernatural elements to this horror book.

Okay hold on to your hats! Hutch and Tim collect unpaid debts for a guy name peach and they’re so good at it they bet each other how little time it will take them for each stop. The two lifelong friends are taking care of business swiftly until they get to Wesley‘s apartment. Wesley is a drug addict and although they’re viewed as being out of their mind Wesley is unlike anything hutch and Tim has ever seen. He talks back he doesn’t care about the threat of abuse but while they’re at the apartment Hutch starts feeling a prickly uneasy but likable feeling and when he tells Wesley‘s girlfriend she needs to leave she shakes her head and says no. When Tim asks her if she doesn’t want to leave because of Wesley she again shakes her head no but when he takes out a gun she quickly takes her stuff in leaves. This is when Tim and Hutch think they will work Wesley over and get the money peach is old but when Wesley breaks his old tooth out of his mouth they know they’re dealing with something else and they soon find out what it is. Wesley has a severed hand in his freezer in the closer hutch gets to the freezer the more that weird prickly feeling gets. this is when Tim decides to call an audible and brings Wesley to the warehouse no one can keep quiet when they get the Don Junior treatment at least no one except for Wesley but soon Don is feeling the effects and everything goes to hell in the only one left is hutch in the hand.
Nick Cawthon is the sun call Rockstars they used to be in a band called the blank space and his mom Cathy Moriarty was the singer and his dad who committed not alive who is the creator and guitar player but now Nick works for peach he really is a nice boy and mainly find things that peaches looking for but on this night Hutch goes to his house and gives him the bag with the hand and everything that Nick knew is all going to be taken from him including his mom because there was others looking for the hand. John Bonner and Emily Wheeler work for an unspoken of undocumented agency called ARC and they two are looking for the severed hand. They know right where to go because their boss is privy to someone or something that does remote viewing but soon that too is in peril and it’s all due to the hand the fever dream it puts you in in those who want to use it for bad. I really messed up this review because I didn’t know what to say and what not to say but what I will say Fever House by Keith Rossen is a brilliant brilliant horror story at first I thought it was just a hand and then they had the interviews and I was like well watch this and how did this come to be and why did they want it but OMG once I continued reading I was like this is such a brilliant story! It was so good I went from laying down listening to it to setting up waiting for the next page this is such a great book that I could definitely see be turned into a movie I have never read a book by Keith Rawson before but I will definitely be looking for them in the future. If you’re a fan of science fiction and or horror then you definitely need to read this book it really is something that could be plausible but even if not it is still definitely entertaining. I want to thank random house and Net Galley for my free arc copy

Can I erase reading this book from my memory so I can go back and read it again for the first time?

My favorite part about Keith's books is that with each one I never know what adventure he is going to take me on, but it's going to be introspective, character driven, and some sort of 6 degrees of separation type insanity. I live for this web of connections, and this book does not disappoint.

Each character is broken in their own way, trying to make the best decisions they can to reach their personal end goals, and it all blows up in ways that weave them all closer together. It's magically tragic in all the right ways. Each time a POV character died I internally screamed because I thought for sure they'd be the one to make it to the end. Keith humanizes everyone throughout this morally grey nightmare of events. Leaving me rooting for even the so called villain's of the story.

When Nick answers the phone my heart stopped. I am at a loss for where a sequel will take us but I can't come soon enough because that ending. Wow. While it's a cliffhangers straight from a book lovers nightmare, this overall story is stand alone. Everything to come after this, is a whole new can of worms that deserves it's own book, and after this blood bath, I'm going to assume it's own set of characters. Kidding. . . some people survive.

You'll love this book if you enjoy post post-apocalyptic type books, but from the perspective of ground zero, and getting the inside view from all the various sides with deep character builds.

Wild does not even begin to describe Fever House. Dark, twisted, heart pounding, and a major cliffhanger at the end, I was on the edge of my seat from the first page to the very last.

This blood-soaked, gritty horror adventure opens with a couple of gangster enforcers who are sent to retrieve money, but return with a severed hand. As it turns out, the hand is most certainly cursed or haunted, as it imbues anyone in close enough proximity to it with violent thoughts and urges that are nearly impossible to resist.

Nearby, a shadowy group of government agents are distressed and actively searching for a missing “asset” - an asset that could have deadly global consequences if not properly contained. These agents will use any force necessary to retrieve the item, and they have an unusual informer helping them along the way. The informer curiously leads them to a former rock star, now an agoraphobic shut-in and borderline alcoholic. She lives with her son, and the two of them have some long and terrifying nights ahead of them.

As the hand travels, so too does its trail of carnage - dangerously close to unleashing a sinister catastrophe. You won’t find many conclusions here, but a sequel is in the works! I wish I had known this before I started reading so I could have prepared for the epic cliffhanger.

Overall, this was a compelling read. I’d even dare to say I read it feverishly. There are many different narrators (a few i didn’t care for), and the chapters are short. For me, short chapters almost always means I’m going to finish a book more quickly.

Landing somewhere between a noir horror adventure and a military sci-fi thriller, Fever House was quite an unexpected ride!

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the arc! This review was also posted to instagram on 8/9/23 @adbiblio_reads