Breeding Ground (Slugs, #2) by Shaun Hutson

Breeding Ground (Slugs, #2) Reviews

• 
  Wayne

  From the first word on page one, to the last, this was better, in my opinion, than the first Slugs book. In this one, the author throws everything at you. Explicit sex. Graphic violence. Slime. Urine. Excrement. Anything and everything having to do with nastiness.
  
  This time around, a divorced young Dr. is thrown into the slugs' mayhem. Bodies of a homeless man. A sewer worker and others confound the authorities on what is to blame. They finally find out that slugs have taken over the sewers, and not only that, but all those who come in contact with their slime trails seem to become infected with a homicidal madness. People start to grow boils and lesions. Then they start to kill. So, society is attacked on two fronts.
  
  A word of warning. Don't read this while you are eating or plan to anytime soon. Every slug attack gets more gruesome than the last. And every crazed human attacking another is much the same.
• 
  Rebecca Alcazaze

  Best reason for some sewer worker dude character to be eaten alive by monstrous slugs:
  
  ‘The thought of the birth did give him a
  momentary smile. When the lad grew
  old enough he’d take him along to Stamford
  Bridge to watch Chelsea [. . . ] make sure the
  little fella didn’t get any bother.
  What if it was a girl? Shit, he’d look a bit of a
  prick taking a girl to watch football, wouldn’t
  he? He dismisses the idea. No, it was going to
  be a boy. No sweat’.
  
  Eat away monstrous slugs, eat away!!! 😊
  
  I’m being silly though and he doesn’t really deserve to have a ‘swarm’ of mad slugs breach his anus and devour him from the inside out, but this is an example of the fantastic offhand 80s horror novel sexism that crops up in narratives like this making me grin and shake my head these days.
• 
  Jonathon Von

  3.5 The killer slugs return! And this time their gross little slime trails turn anyone who touches them into homicidal maniacs. Will some random doctor and… the military I guess… save the day? None of that matters anyway as Breeding Ground more than delivers on the visceral mollusk threat. Carnage abounds and no one is safe from the little bitey bastards. Grisly fun that doesn’t spare the kiddies and even includes an unexpected end to a very graphic threesome. Quality trash that’s surprisingly well-written for the most part but seems to lose interest in itself around the 70% mark and opts for a pat solution.
• 
  Deacon D.

  Yes, Shaun Hutson's killer slugs are back in Breeding Ground and now they're carrying a disease that transforms people into homicidal maniacs covered in weeping boils. And they're in London!
  
  The sequel to Hutson's classic Slugs brings the gross-out factor to whole new levels, with plenty of blood, guts, and every bodily excretion one can imagine. Super icky! But, entertaining as hell!
• 
  Joss

  So bad it's funny!
• 
  Jim Smith

  Thatcher's Britain. A laid off homeless person bursts into an army of slugs. Poe had his Conqueror Worm. Hutson has his Conqueror Slug. The uncaring Britain devours all.
  
  Hutson is pretty shit at story, characterisation, etc. and his real talent lies in ludicrous, imaginative gore scenes. Breeding Ground doesn't bother with any serious attempt at plot (a lofty-for-him aspiration that often bogs down his other novels) and is all carnage. As a result it's one of the more enjoyable Hutsons I've read. A kill scene at a peep show was particularly good.
• 
  Craig "NEEDS MORE DAMN TIME TO READ !!!!"

  Much of the same as the first book pretty much, which isn't a bad thing. Gloriously over the top descriptions of the slugs chewing their way through their victims, yum, yum haha. Good 'clean' fun :)
• 
  Tom Britton

  You know what in for . Man eating slugs . So you know it going be gory fun ride . Like good zombie movies or book . It needs the gore .
  This have right amount of gore and violence.
  The store is good to .
  Over all a fun read if like gory horror books
• 
  Graham King

  So bad it’s….bad!😂. But fun to read. I read the original Slugs as a young teen, and wasn’t aware of this sequel until recent years. Entertaining enough that I can’t rate it too harshly, but it’s no classic. Ridiculously grim gore and terrible sex scenes in abundance!
• 
  Tomi

  B movie creature feature, but sadly not one I can recommend.
• 
  Ape

  My 2010 bookcrossing review
  
  I was not wrong, this is an awful book! A quick read, and quite funny in places as it is so ridiculous. But it's certainly not scary as it just goes unrealistically OTT. It's like a bad video nasty from the 80s. And whilst it might be good for a quick giggle, it's kind of sad, because you think if a bit of effort had gone into it, it might have been scary.
  
  Anyway, basically farmer comes to London with some lettuces to sell and one of them has killer slugs on. Which then get into the sewers and start killing people. Touch their slime and their babies grow in you. Get anywhere near them and they will strip your flesh like pirranas. There's the usual line up of random bit characters who only appear in the plot to get killed off gruesomely... lot of slugs going up people's bums, but hey ho, maybe this entertained the author. The random killing scenes like this are a wee bit repetitive, as are the random, but highly detailed sex scenes that end in death. And the bog-standard male horror writer cliche that all female characters have to be described in terms of their breasts. Because women are just boobs... apparently.
  
  The "hero" of the story is this G.P called Alan Finch, who, to be quite honest, comes over as a bit of an incompetant twit. A child is brought in with a sudden onset of vicious boils all over the body... the doctor doesn't insist that he goes to hospital even though he's seen these boils before. Doesn't report it anywhere. Surely potential sources of infection like this ought to be reported to the health authority so that some central body can monitor what's going on? Dear old Alan doesn't think this. Just as the words disease, contagion, parasite, bacteria and virus all seem to mean the same thing to him. Did we not pay attention at medical school? I know I'm expecting too much of trashy horror, but for god's sake, could we have a little bit of realism here please? rant rant rant...
  
  And all the way through the book I am thinking, has no one heard of slug pellets? Oh, and the genius plan, that they'd infect some men with the slug disease (the one that turns people into homicidal maniacs) and send them into the sewers to lure the slugs to the killing place... except the men go mad and kill each other.
  
  Anyway, there are some important life lessons from this book to be gleaned:
  
  1. Don't eat lettuce with slugs on - it'll all end unhappily.
  
  2. Never trust a slug.
  
  3. Don't put your hands in slug goo.
  
  4. A dead slug is the only good type of slug.
• 
  Lee

  After Hutson came out with "Slugs", he decided we needed another tale of the little digusting, slimy, meat eating killers. This was a late night B-movie gore fest. Almost humorous at times...and at times you you feel like the little frikkers are all over ya. Keep an eye out for the slime trail.
• 
  Ross

  A gore and fluid soaked slice of horror that was silly, but entertaining. The final premise was completely underpants on head, pencils up the nose stupidity though. A good trashy read that will leave you a bit queasy at the end.
• 
  Richard

  gore sex and nonsense. if you're in the mood drinking cider and wearing black it'll suit you fine
• 
  Oliver Clarke

  More absolutely disgusting slimy horror from Hutson. It’s not as good as Slugs, but it is good. The plot of pointless. All that matters is the sex and violence that it links together.
• 
  Sadie

  Sequel to 'Slugs', possibly even better, which I didn't think was possible.
• 
  Noel

  just a good read of gore rudeness and mindless violence fabulous
• 
  Jonathan Reitan

  Not JUST a gorefest but a gorefest on a roller coaster!
• 
  Iri J.

  Tak tahle kniha musela být takový novodobější předchůdce všech těch nechutných knih, filmů a kdo ví čeho ještě o zombie apokalypse. Hnus. Nepřekvapivý, ale nechutný hnus.
  
• 
  Brady Adler

  Not sure who the main character was. Didn't keep track of characters.
  Ending was weird.