sincerelymendacious's review against another edition
challenging
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
gazingangel's review
dark
emotional
3.5
I was really getting into it and then the main character is described as a ‘bony ass white girl’ and that kind of took me out of it. The whole story is people of color being terrorized by an unhinged white woman, which is too real.
Very gory, very violent. Pretty much what I had anticipated otherwise. I like the writing.
Very gory, very violent. Pretty much what I had anticipated otherwise. I like the writing.
lycheecha's review against another edition
5.0
Very quick, but so impactful. Grotesque and nauseating, it's a very intimate look into the main character's experience with loss and the grief that accompanies it. It's almost too intimate, like we're getting a glimpse into something we're not meant to see. Her obsession with vultures and the dead send her spiraling further and further, and all the while we're privy to her every thought. I'll definitely be thinking about this one for a while.
sarratbb's review against another edition
4.0
WOW. 4.5
Okay so.. first of all : very disgusting (which is the point)
The first two chapters can act as an introduction. We meet narrator and protagonist, Andi, a young girl with a lot of trauma, left alone after her family's tragic death ; and her girlfriend Luna. Andi is obsessed with death and decay and wants to become the vultures that invade her mind and soul. She has a therapist "Dr. Fawning" and struggles with the built-up anger and "wrath".
The third chapter ... weird. She wants to taste decay so much to "understand the vultures" that she gives a cvnni to her gf, while she is on her periods :). Luna freaks out and leaves.
Fourth chapter? She then decides to steal a piglet from her farmer neighbor and eat it :(. That part made me really sad. But now.. it starts to feel like You, season 4 (in a good way).
The last two chapters reveal Andi's madness. She forgot that she tried to kill Luna and hid her in the woods. She kills her neighbor and chops his body up into pieces. Everyone is worried for Luna, even Andi. Then we find out that she is in a sort of trance, she thinks that her gory rituals will set her "free" and she wants to be "accepted" by the vultures. Dr.Fawning is in fact a dead deer hanging from a tree. She drives herself and Luna's ex into the woods to see that therapist of hers. The ex (who is not in delusion) calls the police and helps Luna while Andi, still in that delusional state, doesn't want to be "a bird in a cage" (aka in prison) and kills herself by choking on a piece of rotting meat from Dr. Fawning's corpse ; leaving her body to be devoured by the vultures.
Gore aside, the language is truly beautiful and the story isn't just horror, it has a message and embodies that "wrath" and emptiness into this fleshy and smelly story with corpses and weirdness; I just found it oddly beautiful and touching (the psychological and emotional side of it that deals with grief and sadness). The murder and horror plot is on its own very well done, all the clues and the final twist, amazingly written. I also love the symbols and the choice of names. Luna being "the moon to her sun", and the obsession with luna moths (very beautiful species btw); Malik (the ex), may refer to the Arabic word for "angel" (I know it's Malek while Malik is closer to "king" but since it's written in English I can see both) and he saved Luna; Dr. Fawning being a deer's corpse..
Anyway, I recommend if you're not too squimmish
Okay so.. first of all : very disgusting (which is the point)
The first two chapters can act as an introduction. We meet narrator and protagonist, Andi, a young girl with a lot of trauma, left alone after her family's tragic death ; and her girlfriend Luna. Andi is obsessed with death and decay and wants to become the vultures that invade her mind and soul. She has a therapist "Dr. Fawning" and struggles with the built-up anger and "wrath".
The third chapter ... weird. She wants to taste decay so much to "understand the vultures" that she gives a cvnni to her gf, while she is on her periods :). Luna freaks out and leaves.
Fourth chapter? She then decides to steal a piglet from her farmer neighbor and eat it :(. That part made me really sad. But now.. it starts to feel like You, season 4 (in a good way).
The last two chapters reveal Andi's madness. She forgot that she tried to kill Luna and hid her in the woods. She kills her neighbor and chops his body up into pieces. Everyone is worried for Luna, even Andi. Then we find out that she is in a sort of trance, she thinks that her gory rituals will set her "free" and she wants to be "accepted" by the vultures. Dr.Fawning is in fact a dead deer hanging from a tree. She drives herself and Luna's ex into the woods to see that therapist of hers. The ex (who is not in delusion) calls the police and helps Luna while Andi, still in that delusional state, doesn't want to be "a bird in a cage" (aka in prison) and kills herself by choking on a piece of rotting meat from Dr. Fawning's corpse ; leaving her body to be devoured by the vultures.
Gore aside, the language is truly beautiful and the story isn't just horror, it has a message and embodies that "wrath" and emptiness into this fleshy and smelly story with corpses and weirdness; I just found it oddly beautiful and touching (the psychological and emotional side of it that deals with grief and sadness). The murder and horror plot is on its own very well done, all the clues and the final twist, amazingly written. I also love the symbols and the choice of names. Luna being "the moon to her sun", and the obsession with luna moths (very beautiful species btw); Malik (the ex), may refer to the Arabic word for "angel" (I know it's Malek while Malik is closer to "king" but since it's written in English I can see both) and he saved Luna; Dr. Fawning being a deer's corpse..
Anyway, I recommend if you're not too squimmish
anniesaur's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
emam999's review
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
clairedearest_'s review
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cannibalism and Murder
Moderate: Blood, Vomit, and Death of parent
chubbyboof's review against another edition
5.0
I finished this demented little book almost two weeks ago and I STILL can’t stop thinking about it. I’ve never read something that laced trauma and grief so flawlessly with the undesirable thoughts and ideas that we all have sometimes. Reading this made my crazy f**ked thoughts feel so much smaller yet still made so much sense to me, even when it took turns that made me want to vomit and run away, I still needed to keep reading, needed to know where it was going to end.
Beautiful, nauseating, feral, and everything I could want from a book. Truly inspired me to take next steps in writing. 10/10, five stars, and will be reading again very VERY soon.
Beautiful, nauseating, feral, and everything I could want from a book. Truly inspired me to take next steps in writing. 10/10, five stars, and will be reading again very VERY soon.
jenniferip's review
challenging
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0