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Borrowed Flesh Kindle Edition

by Sèphera Girón (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
2.7 2.7 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
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Poor Alex. She thought she would have some fun, take a chance, maybe fool around a little. Instead she’s lying dead in her own blood, cut open like a slaughtered animal. But the worst is still to come. Her tender young flesh will soon be used in an unspeakable act, an unholy ritual that few sane people could even believe. Alex was not the first, nor will she be the last. Not as long as Vanessa is alive—and she plans to be alive forever. Vanessa's unnatural life has become a search for victims, virgins to satisfy her body’s need for eternal youth. But Vanessa doesn’t know that there are things in the world more powerful, more terrifying than even herself …
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Borrowed Flesh was originally published as a mass market paperback by Leisure Books and was edited by Don D'Auria.
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About the Author

Sèphera Girón has over twenty traditionally published books under various names. Her main love is horror and most of her work embraces themes of the occult, metaphysical, erotica, and suspense. 

As a freelance editor for over ten years, Sèphera has helped hundreds of authors put their best words forward. She feels lucky that she not only can write for a living but she can help others write for a living as well.

In recent years, Sèphera has enjoyed paranormal investigations from as near as Casa Loma in Toronto to the Lizzie Borden House in Fall River and a haunted mansion in California. Her most recent trip took her to the Stanley Hotel in Colorado, the place that inspired The Overlook in The Shining by Stephen King. Some of her adventures inspired a few of her own books and stories.

Sèphera lives in Toronto.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01I2PAT8C
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crossroad Press; Macabre Ink First Digital edition (July 6, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 6, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2371 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 340 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Sèphera Girón has over twenty traditionally published books under various names. Her main love is horror and most of her work embraces themes of occult,metaphysical, erotica, and suspense.

As an freelance editor for over ten years, Sèphera has helped hundreds of authors put their best words forward. She feels lucky that she not only can write for a living but she can help others write for a living as well.

In recent years, Sèphera has enjoyed paranormal investigations from as near as Casa Loma in Toronto to the Lizzie Borden House in Fall River and a haunted mansion in California. Her most recent trip took her to the Stanley Hotel in Colorado, the place that inspired The Overlook in The Shining by Stephen King. Some of her adventures inspired a few of her own books and stories.

Sèphera lives in Toronto.

Praise for Captured Souls

"In Captured Souls--her latest erotic thrill ride, Sèphera Girón has created a terrifying new character: a female rendition of Dr. Frankenstein given to detailed scientific human experimentation combined with the sexually predatory and obsessive nature of Nabokov's Humbert Humbert. Horrific and unforgettable."

--Lisa Mannetti, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Gentling Box and Deathwatch

A queasily beguiling blend of erotica and body horror, Sèphera Girón's Captured Souls pits a sexy female mad scientist with a literal fetish for fleshy modification against the self-set challenge of not just finding the perfect lover, but making one. Think Frankenstein in a bustier, with a cool, sleek, Cronenbergian edge. The result is an imaginative Grand Guignol freakout with porno flair, pumped full of dry black humor and nasty surprises, explicit in every way possible--overall, quite disgustingly entertaining.

-Gemma Files, The Hexslinger Series

Sèphera Girón knocks that stereotypical male sexual predator on his head. You won't find another book like this one out there. If you want lust, insanity and horror plaited together into one easy and fun-to-read diabolical story, Captured Souls is for you!

-Nancy Kilpatrick, Writer - Power of the Blood, Editor - Expiration Date

Praise for Weird Tales of Terror:

"This stuff is like Joyce Carol Oates as directed by David Cronenberg." - Hellnotes

"For early work this is well-crafted, potent material." - Horror World

Praise for Sèphera Girón's Work:

"If Poppy Z. Brite and Nancy Kilpatrick turn your cold blood to hot, then welcome Sephera Giron to the short list of dark mistresses of terror truly worthy of that title." - Stanley Wiater, Dark Dreamers

"A truly bizarre piece of fiction." F. Paul Wilson

"Giron at no time lets up on the horror quotient." - Fangoria

"Sephera Giron's tale of witch-craft and vampirism blends erotic romance and chills in equal measure, and is clearly a pre-emptive literary strike by a talented storyteller." - Michael Rowe

"This Mistress of the dark blends madness with black macabre to ride a syncopated edge. Sephera Giron rocks!" Nancy Kilpatrick, Power of the Blood Trilogy

"Giron deserves a place beside the top mistresses of the dark." - Hellnotes

"Giron is a remarkable new voice in the horror genre." Karen E. Taylor, Vampire Legacy Series

"House of Pain is horror at its best." - The Midwest Book Review

"A powerful and unflinching novel." - Peter Atkins, Wishmaster

"Giron's prose is smooth as silk, the pacing is dead on. I devoured this book in a single sitting." - Horror World

"House of Pain is a perfect - if far from safe - place to lose yourself on a stormy fall night." - Fangoria

"Genuinely Creepy." - Cemetery Dance

"House of Pain rocks with good old-fashioned creepiness."- Edo Van Belkom

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2.7 out of 5 stars
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Awilson
1.0 out of 5 stars Giron, Borrowed Flesh
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2011
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All right, you have seen my rating so if you like this book just don't even bother reading further. If you don't know anything about this, maybe I can save you some time. Please remember that time is something that, without massive advances in science, you can never get back.
What the "cuss" was this author thinking? I really tried to get into this book. I really did because I love horror but this was just terrible all around. It had a horrible plot that I didn't even understand in the first place. The book kind of lost me when one of the main characters kept trying and failing to drink her own pee because of some ritual thing. The writing was nothing special and the entire story was not relateable to anyone. I don't even think that an author writing this would enjoy or relate to it. The only thing that I can say for Giron is that maybe she was trying to be unique and different. It is definitely unique since I have never read another book like it, but being different isn't always a good thing. Most people might find you rather unique and different if you took a dump in Santa Clause's lap in some odd protest of Christianity but they probably wouldn't like your actions. Now, I respect all books and I am not saying that this book is crap (or dump for the sensitive types) but I thought it was a bad effort and one of the worst things I've ever read right up there with Stranger by Simon Clark and Black Butterflies by John Shirley. I still want to try House of Pain because I own that one too, but judging by the reviews it got, it will be more time wasted that I will never get back. Don't make the same mistake I made and will probably make again. Unless you want to experience everything horror, and I mean everything, avoid this one.
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Melissa Helwig
2.0 out of 5 stars More of a paranormal romance than a horror novel
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2010
The back cover blurb of Borrowed Flesh is misleading and had me pretty disappointed. Basically, it says the book is about a witch who kills virgins and bathes in their blood in order to gain eternal youth. This only happens twice (providing the only gore and horror) and is not the focal point of the novel. Here's what the back cover blurb should say:

Vanessa is a witch with eternal life who makes a living reading tarot cards. When several of the town's women residents come to her for help with their straying husbands, she has a feeling there is something else keeping the men away. When she tries to solve the mystery she realizes she's not the only witch in town.

Borrowed Flesh should have been marketed as a paranormal romance because the novel focuses Vanessa's budding relationship with David. The parts where she bathes in virgin blood could have been easily cut out because it's not essential to the plot and are the only parts that could be considered horror.

The characters aren't very deep and I didn't find myself caring about what happens to them. Vanessa is portrayed as a "good" witch, yet she kills innocent virgins to obtain something as frivolous as looking young, which made me dislike her. She's the heroine of the novel and Giron tries to make her seem caring, but I couldn't get over the fact that she murders young women and bathes in their blood just to look pretty. Also, some characters are mentioned over and over without explaining them. Sophie constantly appears in Vanessa's dreams but there's no explanation of who she is or why she is significant to Vanessa's life. And Vanessa's ex Demian is described a bit, but there's no clarification of why he and Vanessa broke up or what their relationship was like, Giron just says how Vanessa will always love him over and over.

Although I didn't care for the characters, the novel held my interest until the end because of Giron's direct writing style and my curiosity of why the husbands went missing. Which brings me to the part of the novel which I hated the most: the anticlimactic ending. I got to the end just to find a measly five pages dedicated to the fight between our heroine, Vanessa, and the "bad" witch. And the reason behind her holding the men hostage was so ridiculous that it made me upset I wasted my time on the rest of the book just to reach this crazy conclusion.

I like Giron's writing style and will read more of her work, but I would recommend skipping this one.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not Bad, Could Use Some Blending
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2004
(...) While I will agree that some of the elements could have been threaded together a little neater and in some cases further exposition would have been nice (like Vanessa's background), I liked this novel for the unique vision behind it. This novel deserves to be recognized for the fact that it's not a "cookie cutter" sort of book.
***SLIGHT SPOILERS***
We have Vanessa, an aging witch who has a penchant for sacrificing virgins in order to maintain her youthful good looks, yet still is difficult to view as a villain. We get glimpses of her trying to justify her selfish acts to her victims, and seemingly failing to convince even herself. She's pretty human in that while committing acts she doesn't seem to see as evil, she's also out trying to help people. I was able to empathize what it must be like to be a scarred 40 year-old woman wanting to continue to be attractive and loved, and I'm a guy in my mid-twenties, so that was a bit of a stretch for me. I give this novel only 3 stars because there was a sub-plot featuring a bunch of urine-drinking weirdos that just sort of disappeared, along with the issue of Vanessa's former lover and what he did never being resolved (though maybe that's planned for a future release). There were also a few occurences towards the end where I felt like events had been a little too "fast-forwarded." Just a little bit of slowing down and doing some more storytelling would have helped a lot in the thread involving Alex's friend(s), and the bit about Molly. I still enjoyed this one, though. I think I'll hunt down a used copy of "Eternal Sunset" to get a better understanding of Vanessa's backstory. There is definitely talent behind this work, so I'd be willing to give Sephera Giron a little more of my reading time before passing any final judgements.
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