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3.61 AVERAGE
3.61 AVERAGE
I have never read anything like this. I honestly picked it up because the cover just caught my eye, and then the back said enough to hook me in.
This novel is equal parts gore and sexy. It's weird and wild and oddly leaves you wanting more.
I repeatedly flipped the last page back and forth going "what the fuck?".
Also the whole reason the disease pops off is just excellent.
You should read it if you can handle highly descriptive gore, love a good twist, and enjoy a good post apocalyptic theme.
This novel is equal parts gore and sexy. It's weird and wild and oddly leaves you wanting more.
I repeatedly flipped the last page back and forth going "what the fuck?".
Also the whole reason the disease pops off is just excellent.
You should read it if you can handle highly descriptive gore, love a good twist, and enjoy a good post apocalyptic theme.
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This was completely f*cked up from start to finish and I loved every moment of it.
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I wanted to love this book. It was campy and nasty in a way that could have been fun and lighthearted, but the cringy character voices, clunky exposition, and unsatisfying ending left me wanting more. There were moments of effective body horror - The Cleaving made me cringe - but that was consistently undercut by how annoying I found Snyder's character writing, especially of Savannah. I'm not a prude and think that writing sexual characters is fine, but the way Savannah's job was explained felt like someone who just learned what feminism is and doesn't think the reader can understand it from context clues. This was an issue for the book more generally - Snyder spent portions of each section outlining basic feminist concepts in great detail rather than having the impact of the patriarchy on the characters be implied - but it was especially obnoxious in Savannah's case as the author spent the rest of the section talking about how murder makes her cum. Segmenting the perspectives into different sections didn't work for me either, as I found myself wanting to know what the other characters were feeling about the apocalypse. I was especially interested in how Erin's mind changed after her various transformation, and was sad that we never heard from her again. I understand wanting to do something different with perspective shifts as they can be hard to pull off well, but here I think the traditional switching perspectives between chapters would work better. And that ending! Personally, I am all for an unsatisfying ending in a lot of cases, but her character work wasn't good enough to prop up the lack of explanation about the world that she built. She introduced so many plot points that felt stunted by the lack of exploration of the world. Overall, this was a skip for me. Even if the concept interests you like it did me, it was executed so poorly that I found myself frustrated by the end.
tense
fast-paced
Holy cannoli, I don't know what I was expecting when I opened this book, but I was in for a WILD ride. SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER is a post-pandemic, apocalyptic, eldritch horror festival of a book. Think COVID but way... way... WAY... worse. The body horror and slow, creeping sense of your own physical self slowly turning against you is mesmerizing in the best and worst ways possible.
If you're at all squeamish, then this book may not be the best choice for you. But if you enjoy (perhaps "enjoy" isn't the right word) truly visceral horror, characters with strong internal voices, and being thrown for about a million loops in one sitting, I highly recommend it. I was sucked in from the moment I started reading and didn't stop until I literally couldn't keep my eyes open any longer. My brain is still trying to process it. It's entirely possible I may never be the same again.
5 stars. I wouldn't disappoint the Old Gods with anything less.
Big thank you to Tor Nightfire, Lucy A. Snyder, and NetGalley for the ARC.
If you're at all squeamish, then this book may not be the best choice for you. But if you enjoy (perhaps "enjoy" isn't the right word) truly visceral horror, characters with strong internal voices, and being thrown for about a million loops in one sitting, I highly recommend it. I was sucked in from the moment I started reading and didn't stop until I literally couldn't keep my eyes open any longer. My brain is still trying to process it. It's entirely possible I may never be the same again.
5 stars. I wouldn't disappoint the Old Gods with anything less.
Big thank you to Tor Nightfire, Lucy A. Snyder, and NetGalley for the ARC.
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced