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A review by apollinares
Body After Body by Briar Ripley Page
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
This is a strange one. I don't really know what to say about it. I picked it up for a reading challenge (the prompt was "self published"). The audience for this work is... very small.
Maybe body horror trash fiction just isn't my cup of tea. The body horror itself was written exceptionally - I would get lost in the lyrical prose and it would hit me halfway through a paragraph that someone had just been disemboweled, or maimed, or killed. It didn't feel tacky or cliché, surprisingly. It felt like the book was trying to shock me, but also comfort me into this false sense of security at the same time. VERY nsfw, in every imaginable way.
I didn't so much enjoy it as I quickly devoured it, and then had to sit with the aftermath. I'm still here, sitting with it.
Maybe body horror trash fiction just isn't my cup of tea. The body horror itself was written exceptionally - I would get lost in the lyrical prose and it would hit me halfway through a paragraph that someone had just been disemboweled, or maimed, or killed. It didn't feel tacky or cliché, surprisingly. It felt like the book was trying to shock me, but also comfort me into this false sense of security at the same time. VERY nsfw, in every imaginable way.
I didn't so much enjoy it as I quickly devoured it, and then had to sit with the aftermath. I'm still here, sitting with it.