Cool Ghouls Book Club

I have been invested in this series since the first book dropped this time last year. Bowery is horrifying in every sense. This is extreme horror. Consider the genre and synopsis your content warning. In the first book, we met Sandra and followed her harrowing journey at the bowery. Bowery 2 part 1 answered some questions I had after reading the first book and gives us more information about the mother cow. Bowery 2 part 2 takes us back to the very beginning and we learn how it all started.

Bowery 2 part 3 brings us back to the end of Bowery, back to Sandra’s story. At first I found it a bit disorienting, but in a way, that puts you in Sandra’s shoes. Well, her bare feet I guess. Cows don’t wear shoes. This story starts with Sandra sitting in the back of a pickup plotting her escape. After all she’s been through, she still has hope. She waits for the right moment to jump out of the truck and runs off into the woods. The farmers give chase for a little while, but eventually decide to go back to face the music. The bowery supervisors are paying them a visit and they are not happy. After all, the mother cow is dead and the chosen cow has escaped after her actions caused a chain reaction of death and destruction on the farm. The supervisors are there to exact vengeance on the mother cow’s murderer and punish the farmers who allowed it to happen. Does Sandra finally get away? Is this the end of the mother cow and the bowery itself? You’ll have to read it to find out.

I am once again impressed with Vaughn’s storytelling and incredibly descriptive and creative imagery. There are scenes in this one that will live on in my head rent free for a long time. This doesn’t end the way you think it will, but it ends in a way fitting the series. Is this the end of Bowery? I don’t know, but I look forward to reading more of Vaughn’s work.

You can grab this on Godless now, or get the paperback on Amazon in March. I have it on good authority that there might be a bonus story in the paperback, which means I might have to find space on my bookshelf for it.