The Atrocity Engine is a Men-In-Black-esque urban-fantasy meets cosmic slasher following the lives of two secret-agency Maintenance workers’ fight to rid Ash Creek of the deadly Corruption threatening their lives as well as the fabric of time itself. Maintenance veteran Neal and rookie Gina must stop one of the Multitude from harnessing the Corruption caused by Entropy to create the Atrocity Engine, a device that could single handedly destroy planet Earth.

If you love a fast-paced, action-packed, gory, dark-humored, slasher reminiscent of Men In Black, The Atrocity Engine is for you.

This was such a fun read! I loved the premise and writing was really easy to get into. I especially loved the characters of the Multitude, they were so well done and hilarious. I couldn't put this down and am super excited to read more in the series!

Overall, although The Atrocity Engine isn't the most original of stories, it's a fantastic one nonetheless! Highly recommended!

Thank you to Netgalley for an e-ARC of this title in exchange for an honest review.

The synopsis of The Atrocity Engine intrigued me and the writing is fantastic, it was just more of a slasher horror/ Urban paranormal than urban fantasy/ comic horror as I am accustomed to (Think Tom Holt/ Robert Rankin) This is nothing negative about the book itself, more about my own expectations

I did enjoy the book, it was well written and the flow paced very well. Waggoner is clearly a very talented author and there is a lot of potential for this series in the Horror genre

Thank you very much to Netgalley, Aethon Books, Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles and the author Tim Waggoner. My review is left voluntarily and all opinions are my own

This book started out interesting but then it just kept going on. Not interested in continuing the series but I will look at other books by this same author to see if there is anything that does work for me because there is definitely talent here.

What a great start to what appears to be a balls to the wall series. Tim Waggoner has blended dark sci-fi, extreme horror, and some "WTF" moments into a story about the end of the world, although not in the way you think.

Like a satanic version of Men In Black meets a blood fueled X-Files, this novel is about a secretive government agency who is trying to delay the eventual end of everything. Corruption in the form of an evil matter called entropy is trying to spread as the center of all existence, The Gyre, is slowly feasting on its own creation until there is nothing left.

This entropy takes the forms of some disturbing, brutal, evil creatures. The agency's job is to fight it and keep it undercover from the rest of humanity. But that's not easy.

As we follow our main characters, the author makes them fully fleshed out and believable. I loved the relationships between these characters and that makes the horrors to come even more hellish and frightening.

And make no mistake, while this book isn't technically "extreme" horror, there's enough blood, gore, violence, and body parts to delight fans of that genre.

I absolutely loved this novel and am looking forward to the rest of the series!

Let's just get this right out of the way - Atrocity Engine is not the deepest of stories, nor the most original (unless you include the depths and originality of the splatter-horror). I was quite intrigued by the premise, however while there are a couple of good supernatural ideas, for the post part Atrocity Engine is more campy and comedic than badass (and I'm not 100% sure its supposed to be).

The plot is cobbled together with various Men-In-Black and buddy-cop tropes, to the point where I swear the author genuinely couldn't be arsed and was like "yep we're gonna have some backstory, but don't expect too much".

While this all sounds very negative, the story is fairly rip-roaring and if you ARE looking for shallow but very VERY gruesome horror then this is the book for you. I liked a couple of the supernatural concepts like 'Brother Nothing' and while they were tropey the MCs visits to supernatural bars and marketplaces was mostly fun (didn't think I'd read a book today where a zombie dude was defeated by having his puss sores poked to oblivion but here I am).