Reviews - Goddess of Filth

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Goddess of Filth

V. Castro

3.71 AVERAGE

mikeys's review

4.0

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

devonmarieh's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

wordsarepower's review against another edition

3.0

I don’t think I would recommend this to someone who is already an avid horror reader, but it would be a great introduction to the genre for someone. I liked the girl power, female friendships and Castro’s voice as a writer. I’ll have to get my hands on Immortal Pleasures, to see if I like her long form work more.

books_in_badgerland's review against another edition

3.0

fast-paced

Female rage + The Craft comparisons + a 4hr audiobook? Sign me up.

📖 The book starts with five friends holding a seance. Immediately Fernanda's behavior shifts, and for weeks afterwards her behavior is erratic and concerning. Could she be possessed? What can her friends and family do to save her?

🤝: This may be a good fit if you enjoy:
- feminist takes on Aztec mythology
- female rage
- friendship-focused plots

💭: I think this was a fun, quick audiobook. The themes were really cool, I mean a Goddess of Filth? Sin eating? Let's GO. Some of these scenes were very 'good for her' and fun. While I love a short story, I think this one could have benefitted from more character development and emotional moments between major events.

🎧: Stacy Gonzalez did a great job narrating Goddess of Filth. Lourdes is the first person perspective, and then it will switch to third person for Fernanda and Father Moreno's sections. It took me a second to figure out the switches, but I'm glad I chose audio.

meganalexandra1's review against another edition

3.0

dark fast-paced

bookishdvm's review

2.0

Maybe I went into this one with too high of expectations. First comment - if you are going to make a novella less than 150 pages, your dialogue needs to be almost perfect. It needs to have tell your story well and get your character’s established. The amount of clunky and cheesey dialogue was insane. There is a line that made me roll my eyes because it was so out of place and character and I almost stopped the book there. Additional, scenes and themes need to be specific and executed well and I found some of the scenes to be lacking luster and underdeveloped. This book may have benefited from a larger word count and further plot development.

samanthacenz's review

3.75

dark inspiring reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

As a horror novella, it's not something that I'd usually read, but I'm trying to burn through my massive tbr list by going in order of page count from least to most. The basic plot is 5 Chicana friends do a fake seance for fun but accidentally do summon something that inhabits one of them, causing her to act very strangely and frighteningly to the rest of the group. The overall theme is actually about female empowerment, so that was a surprise. Since it's a novella, though, the plot moved super fast. It also changes from 1st person as Lourdes to 3rd person for Fernanda and Father Moreno. I'm not a huge fan of that kind of switch in a book, even if they're different chapters. In this case, though, it would occasionally happen mid chapter after a page division. The ending kinda wrapped things up, but I would have liked a little more epilogue. I honestly think it would benefit from being a full novel, or an expanded made-for-tv movie.