A review by stromberg
Body After Body by Briar Ripley Page

challenging dark inspiring tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This compact tale, combining elements of science fiction, eco-horror, and body horror, fuses the grotesque with the erotic. It is a story of exploitation, resistance, and liberation, a phantasmical exploration of psychosexual revulsion and erotic bliss and the points of inflection at which the former may cross into the latter. And it is a meditation on identity—where our genders begin and end, how our worth must never be as picayune as our dollar value, the way in which each of us is human via other humans—and how a rejection of solidarity in favour of dogged egoism may invite one’s own destruction.