A review by corsetedfeminist
This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0


This book is the campy queer horror that I needed. 
Featuring a friend group made up of a bisexual, a bi trans woman, a Black lesbian, and a token straight Latina girl, it is set in a post zombie adjacent apocalypse that created a group of people who can only survive on either human flesh or a lab crates equivalent. Everything is just a happy summer girl’s trip until it descends into part horror movie, part mystery. 
This book is incredibly fun, and I desperately need a good movie adaptation. 
Special shout out to the fact that despite the broad queer diversity, there’s exactly one mention in the entire book of transphobia- the conflict in the book all comes from the monster situation and a very precious childhood friends to lovers romance. As much as I love books that address homophobia and transphobia, sometimes it’s delightful to read a book where that isn’t the problem, it’s people turning into monsters. 
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