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eekajean's review
2.0
what the fuck even was this i don’t even know what happened. it was fine at first then it went all downhill from there
youngloveleroy's review
tense
fast-paced
3.5
"I'm nobody. Who are you?"
This book was something. It was weird, and I wanted to know where it was going. And I don't think I understood everything it was about.
This book was something. It was weird, and I wanted to know where it was going. And I don't think I understood everything it was about.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pregnancy
Moderate: Rape and Abortion
Minor: Death and Drug use
yak_attak's review against another edition
3.0
Bride of the Tornado is surrealist coming of age horror, Americana small town, sneaking out at night, riding your bikes around, and all the connotations and images those ideas conjure. A great sense of melancholy and adolescent loneliness permeates the pages. The horror is done with style and aplomb, imagery is vivid and absolutely disgusting, inventive and surprising. And for much of the book it's quite snappy, readable, and engaging...
I just don't know to what end, really. There's a part of me that wants to attribute some higher, 4D chess level conniving to the author, that I just don't understand the work - but I'm not entirely sure that's correct either. There's just, and this seems like such an annoying complaint, just absolutely no 'why' behind any of this. Weird small town, teenagers, tornados, tornado killers, religious allegory. You get what it says on the tin and no deeper. I don't necessarily need a book to tell me what to think about it, but there's not much of a sense that there *is* anything to think about. It's just a story, the end, game over.
There are other nitpicks, but they're minor. Some unnecessary fatphobia, and the prose tends to devolve into these really annoying short sentences whenever something scary happens, which distracts and becomes fairly irritating to read by the end. But the core issue here is just that 'why' and without that - and maybe I'm just a dumbass, sure - I don't know who I'd give this to really.
I just don't know to what end, really. There's a part of me that wants to attribute some higher, 4D chess level conniving to the author, that I just don't understand the work - but I'm not entirely sure that's correct either. There's just, and this seems like such an annoying complaint, just absolutely no 'why' behind any of this. Weird small town, teenagers, tornados, tornado killers, religious allegory. You get what it says on the tin and no deeper. I don't necessarily need a book to tell me what to think about it, but there's not much of a sense that there *is* anything to think about. It's just a story, the end, game over.
There are other nitpicks, but they're minor. Some unnecessary fatphobia, and the prose tends to devolve into these really annoying short sentences whenever something scary happens, which distracts and becomes fairly irritating to read by the end. But the core issue here is just that 'why' and without that - and maybe I'm just a dumbass, sure - I don't know who I'd give this to really.
lil_librarian's review
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
3 term description: nonlinear, disjointed lore, needed more tornado
sobek777's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
bravokidroxy's review
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Abandonment, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Self harm, Body horror, Cannibalism, Forced institutionalization, Animal death, and Gaslighting
kirstenw13's review
5.0
This is my favorite book that I read in 2023. I picked it up in the library on a lark, and it opened me up to genres I hadn’t considered before. I didn’t know I liked horror until I read Bride of the Tornado. It’s so interestingly written, I could see scenes in my mind being animated in the Ghibli style. Kennedy writes about the internal struggle of an outcast senate girl so well it’s uncanny. This book changed me as a reader.
goodneighborbooks's review
5.0
Bride of the Tornado reads like a lucid dream that turns into a nightmare.
I’ve never had such a WTF reaction to a book before, and I love it.
I’ve never had such a WTF reaction to a book before, and I love it.