Elizabeth Holly is pregnant. She is kidnapped by her ex-husband, ex-reverend Wilson. She is saved by John, her husband and Julie, her daughter. Holly can’t help but wonder if her baby boy, Waed is evil. At the hospital, a nurse cuts out hearts and flees the hospital with baby Waed. Waed grows quickly and becomes the Beast that assaults and/or kill people in town building an army so he can reign over earth. However there are those who do fight the Beast. Will they succeed?

This novel has moments of humor even though it would be consider horror. It is full of action. I never got bored. The writing was excellent. I hope he continues to write horror as I think he is fantastic!

One or two decent stories but nothing here really stands out. There are some good ideas.overall but the execution of them isnt great.

I must really have missed something, given the high reviews. I couldn’t force myself to finish this. I am not squeamish, but the writing was amateurish and the “horror”was just gross for the shock value. Very, very poor.

wicked Prayers by s d Moore.
The rebirth of demon Waed needs the hearts of the holly baby, the mother and father plus the babies sister Julie.
Detectives Dell Cameron and Jack Richards are on the case along with a few survivors. Can they stop all hell breaking loose?
This was a murderesque and grotesque read. absolutely fantastic. This was like one of those grind house horror movies. I could see it happening in my head as I was reading it. loved the story and the characters. Apart from demon Waed. I do hope there is more to come. This is a must read and I would highly recommend this book. 5*. Netgalley and dog ear publishing.

Unfortunately, I could not connect to the writing style in this book. I only made it about 15% before realizing I was already skimming and not connecting at all.

I stopped reading this after the first few chapters - after the fifth account of someone being covered in bodily fluids I had to put it down. I felt a little like the author was going for more shock factor than anything else, only since there was no emotional build-up there was no shock either. Unfortunate because the concept is interesting and I absolutely loved the cover! that'll teach me not to judge books by their cover again :P

Wicked Prayers by SD Moore was received direct from the publisher. SD Moore is a military veteran. Other reviewers have called this book a Grindhouse type book, a term i think is rather fitting. Other people hated it due to continuity errors, perceived or not. I rate a book mostly on "does it entertain me? does it drag down for no reason? and do I skim through the book due to it being boring?" This book meets NONE of these qualifiers, it is non stop action and horror and if the reader just goes with the flow and not overthink the romp and enjoy the action, they will have fun.

4 Stars

I usually read while eating. Couldn't do that with this one.
Man, there were some disgusting bits.

<i>Wicked Prayers</i> started really well for me. That prologue immediately grasped my attention.
But shortly after it all went downhill.

I just could not appreciate the characters. The dialogues felt like right out of the crappiest B-movie and the plot was so messily constructed that I could not enjoy the book.

When I was coming to roughly halfway through the book it started to majorly drag out for me. There were pages and pages of useless dialogue and I often innerly yelled <i>Come on, get to the juicy part already and cut it out with the crappy attempts at humour!</i>

The more I read the more it felt like a parody of a horror book instead of a proper one, with soldiers throwing lines like <i>No hot girls are getting eaten on my watch!</i> or <i>Yeah the frickin Beast is a beeeast!</i>

There wasn't even a proper evolution. One minute the characters did not believe in anything supernatural and then next they are (especially our main character Del) experts on how to kill the 'monsters' and how to make the Beast weaker.

I had to keep fighting the urge to skim through the text and trudged through most of the book. More and more characters kept being introduced (or rather dumped into the story) and I just could not keep track, nor felt any will to catch up by that point.

The ARC needs <i>major</i> editing. Lack of punctuation, missing words and misspells (even with main characters names) were just a couple of issues I constantly found.

<i>Wicked Prayers</i> is one of those reads that has so much potential but when you don't have believable characters it is just ruined, at least for me.

<i>Disclaimer: I would like to thank the publisher and Netgalley for providing me a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.</i>

A horror story with a sense of humor, Wicked Prayers tracks the rebirth of a demon and his rampage through a city. The Holly baby, aka. Waed Holly, aka. the Beast is an abomination born to a woman bred to carry it. He eats the heart of his father and mother, but to be invincible he needs to consume his sister's heart. Only a few people stand in his way, battling the Beast and the demons he creates. It's a simple story, and the fun part is the ride: the fights, the double-crosses, the chase. What could be improved is the character development. Only the two main cops fighting the demon are clearly defined. The rest of the characters are interchangeable, and the constant stream of names is simply distracting. At first I paid attention and memorized them, thinking that they'd be significant. When they weren't, it was just confusing. This book has been compared to a graphic novel, and I agree that it would make a fantastic one but, without the visual aid to distinguish the characters, it was a little hard to follow. But nobody reads these stories for the characters but for the action, and in this regard it is entertaining. So I'm giving it four stars.

4 Stars

This book has it all: humor, terror, mystery and more! It is a delightful read, well written and plotted. S. D. Moore has a sense of humor – and is not afraid to use it. It contains surprises, twists and turns. It captures your attention from page one.

I will definitely be looking for more of Ms. Moore’s novels – especially if they are like this one.

I want to send a many thanks to Netgalley and Dog Ear Publishing for forwarding to me a copy of this delightful book to read!