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3.61 AVERAGE
3.61 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Horror, zombies, vampires, and a bunch of weird stuff. It was great. One of those “wtf did I just read?!” And also “WTF did I just read!!!” (In a good way)
Parts of it I had to skip because of how absolutely disgusting and horrid and depraved it was. Not a big gore person in general though. Otherwise, I could not put this down. What a weird and engrossing and fascinating story that somehow remained grounded despite being absolutely nuts.
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book started out really interesting, but as it expanded into the other character's stories, it lost me a bit. Erin's story did a good job of exposing you to the world, as well as the tone of the story, but the other two characters weren't nearly as engaging to me and the expansion of the world, from their perspective just didn't work as well.
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
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
maybe the creepiest book I’ve ever read, and I wish it wasn’t such a hot mess so I could rate it higher
the first 40% was great, focusing on living through a pandemic and all the dystopia that creates. the classifications of people by disease type, second-class citizens to homeland security, the way society goes on without those who are left sick – it’s well done and believable. And the horror is top notch, there’s a moment where Erin ever so carefully makes slits in Betty’s skull to slurp some of her brain and Betty lets her and it turned my stomach.
The second pov is where it starts to unravel. Savannah has two traits: she thinks killing is sooo sexy and she serves the eldtrich gods, and it gets boring hearing that over & over for a hundred pages. There’s also a scene where she kills a black nurse & compares herself to Dahmer, and an ensuing conversation about the racial dynamics of that the book moves past very awkwardly.
Part 3 gets even more unhinged, with Mareva giving birth to alien cephalopod creatures from growths on her body. And look. I held on for a long time. I held on past the sex-possessed assassin, the winged creatures killing people, the gods that are using octopi. But when that happened and then the ALIEN SPACESHIP descended … I truly feel like we have lost the plot.
The problem with this book is it’s trying to be too many things at once: pandemic dystopia, horror-thriller, eldritch apocalypse, alien fiction. Trying to merge all those made it good at none of them. Sister Maiden Monster starts out intriguing, but steadily descends into being more & more batshit until it is barely tolerable.
the first 40% was great, focusing on living through a pandemic and all the dystopia that creates. the classifications of people by disease type, second-class citizens to homeland security, the way society goes on without those who are left sick – it’s well done and believable. And the horror is top notch, there’s a moment where Erin ever so carefully makes slits in Betty’s skull to slurp some of her brain and Betty lets her and it turned my stomach.
The second pov is where it starts to unravel. Savannah has two traits: she thinks killing is sooo sexy and she serves the eldtrich gods, and it gets boring hearing that over & over for a hundred pages. There’s also a scene where she kills a black nurse & compares herself to Dahmer, and an ensuing conversation about the racial dynamics of that the book moves past very awkwardly.
Part 3 gets even more unhinged, with Mareva giving birth to alien cephalopod creatures from growths on her body. And look. I held on for a long time. I held on past the sex-possessed assassin, the winged creatures killing people, the gods that are using octopi. But when that happened and then the ALIEN SPACESHIP descended … I truly feel like we have lost the plot.
The problem with this book is it’s trying to be too many things at once: pandemic dystopia, horror-thriller, eldritch apocalypse, alien fiction. Trying to merge all those made it good at none of them. Sister Maiden Monster starts out intriguing, but steadily descends into being more & more batshit until it is barely tolerable.
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Sexual content
Many thanks to Tor Nightfire and Netgalley for the ARC, this is my honest review.
I'll not compare it because I've never read anything like it. This was grotesque, a freakshow of mind-boggling depravity so thoroughly creative that I couldn't put it down. At first I thought it was going to be more of a domestic horror type situation with a little sci-fi on the side but once the transformation started taking place I buckled in, and thank goodness I've got a strong stomach or much of this would have done me in.
I thoroughly enjoyed the three main women's perspectives, how their stories overlapped and crossed paths, the destiny of it all before they even knew what was happening. But the body horror was truly unique such that even in my wildest Hellraiser-esque dreams I couldn't have predicted those horrific things. This is nothing but nightmare fuel in the plainest sense of the term that played vividly in my brain like a movie as I read, and I think it will likely haunt me for some time to come.
Too many trigger warnings to list - so please honor your intuition if you think you're ready, you're not even close. This book will surprise you and because I normally review YA I want to make clear this is NOT YA.
I'll not compare it because I've never read anything like it. This was grotesque, a freakshow of mind-boggling depravity so thoroughly creative that I couldn't put it down. At first I thought it was going to be more of a domestic horror type situation with a little sci-fi on the side but once the transformation started taking place I buckled in, and thank goodness I've got a strong stomach or much of this would have done me in.
I thoroughly enjoyed the three main women's perspectives, how their stories overlapped and crossed paths, the destiny of it all before they even knew what was happening. But the body horror was truly unique such that even in my wildest Hellraiser-esque dreams I couldn't have predicted those horrific things. This is nothing but nightmare fuel in the plainest sense of the term that played vividly in my brain like a movie as I read, and I think it will likely haunt me for some time to come.
Too many trigger warnings to list - so please honor your intuition if you think you're ready, you're not even close. This book will surprise you and because I normally review YA I want to make clear this is NOT YA.
slow-paced