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The Embalmer by Rayne Havok

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sofie06's review

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dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

Content Warnings

This is one of those stories that first person really creates the perfect ambience. In this story, we get her thoughts, feelings, emotions, etc... And even though she's kinda morbid, a part of me couldn't help but to like her. She was true to herself, even if that involved committing morbid acts. I usually don't like happy endings, but I did with this one ( if you could call the ending happy? I do, but I'm twisted). The few scenes that might cause others to cringe made me LOL. Maybe I need to get myself evaluated.....

aiden_e_messer's review

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3.5

This was weird and fun

optimisticbooknerd's review

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2.0

2 ⭐️

I love extreme horror but this wasn't anything remarkable or even good. It was gross and weird.

howlinglibraries's review

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2.75

I went into this with morbid curiosity and the assumption that the low ratings were from the content, but no. The writing was lacking in a big way — as in, I stopped counting run-on sentences after the first chapter. This negativity is coming from me, someone who reads a lot of under-edited books and usually doesn't complain much about it, so take that for what you will! If you don't mind the poor writing, though, the plot was pretty solidly fucked up and I liked the protagonist.

godlyreads's review

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2.0

Hear me out...it's weird but it's good, in a way.

The story involves the fucked up mind of a woman who works in a mortuary and from the arrival of a certain corpse, she can't think of anything other than impure and totally wrong desires.

When I started this read I thought it would go down a different branch but it did not. I didn't expect the events from the middle to the end of the book at all. But yes it is a very sick plot. The main character had very contradictory morals and I couldn't believe how someone gets to that level of mental disturbance. It's explicit and pretty disgusting.

Would I recommend it? Probably yes, but if you're in the mood for a random read that makes you fear for the society we live in. My three stars are because I found it entertaining although I would have liked it to be longer so I could get 100% into the characters and study their mentality about the events.

I will continue to read more from the author. (edit: I continued reading more from the author and...wtf)

mrsgmami4's review

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3.0

Sadie works at a funeral home, she’s attracted to the dead man she is supposed to be working on. She decides that she’s going to have sex with it. While doing so 3 men come in and see her, and basically bribe her for them not to tell. She has to do favors for these men. She falls for the man rhy and wants sexual relations with him. The men bring in a body to her and want her to get rid of it. She thinks this body looks like rhy, so she decides to have sex with it too. Rhy comes back along later and wants to have sex with him and he said over his dead body, and well that’s what sure in enough happened. I’ll leave the ending a surprise. I thought the beginning of the book was pretty good but then it just went dry for me.