A review by lekhoury
Katzenjammer by Francesca Zappia
5.0
Lord of the Flies meets Euphoria in this ya fantasy horror novel. Cat and her friends, the outcasts, have undergone changes since waking up in this new world where the School is a living, breathing, creature (named “School”) and the doors to the outside world have disappeared. No one knows how they ended up at School, they just know they have to find a way out before they get caught by the thing out there killing them off one by one
Cat’s face has transformed into a white mask of her own hardened flesh and her best friend is slowly turning into cardboard Pinocchio. The popular kids have kept their own faces and bodies, but they’re terrified of the horrific changes happening to the other kids and that fear has made them dangerous. Interspersed between the terror of School, Cat begins having glimpses of her life before she came to School and she hopes to remember what happened to her and her classmates before it’s too late.
I’m generally not a fan of horror novels, and this one did not skimp on the gore, but I found this to be an incredibly gripping creepy read. The opening pages and the dual timelines immediately hooked me, and I finished the entire book within two days.
Please, please go read a published list of the complete trigger warnings for this book. I’ll post a spoiler-free list here. TW: violence, body horror, bullying, descriptive gore.
Thanks to Netgalley, Harper Collins, and Francesca Zappia for the E-ARC.
Cat’s face has transformed into a white mask of her own hardened flesh and her best friend is slowly turning into cardboard Pinocchio. The popular kids have kept their own faces and bodies, but they’re terrified of the horrific changes happening to the other kids and that fear has made them dangerous. Interspersed between the terror of School, Cat begins having glimpses of her life before she came to School and she hopes to remember what happened to her and her classmates before it’s too late.
I’m generally not a fan of horror novels, and this one did not skimp on the gore, but I found this to be an incredibly gripping creepy read. The opening pages and the dual timelines immediately hooked me, and I finished the entire book within two days.
Please, please go read a published list of the complete trigger warnings for this book. I’ll post a spoiler-free list here. TW: violence, body horror, bullying, descriptive gore.
Thanks to Netgalley, Harper Collins, and Francesca Zappia for the E-ARC.