Reviews

Low Kill Shelter by Porpentine Charity Heartscape

tessaract's review

dark hopeful tense fast-paced

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

3.75

mayomommy's review

inspiring

4.0

dog boys

adorableautist's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This is a book about intimacy. About who we keep at arms length and who we let get close, and how that closeness fulfills, hurts, and changes us into something new. About how the myriad of social interactions and perspectives mapped onto the membrane of society are refracted through our own diverse neurology and traumas. In typical Porpentine fashion, these themes are explored using grotesque, violent, and frequently sexual imagery, but she always manages to extract something hopeful and even kind from the ensuing gore.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Body horror, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Ableism

never_a_g0d_'s review

4.0

Well, fuck

renart's review

adventurous dark 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

5.0

bebebe44444's review

5.0

Came across this randomly as a recommendation on twitter, glad I read it !! Using fucked up imagery and morbidity as a vessel for romance is my fav and this story does it great. Disease, hunger, and violence, but also surprisingly sorta wholesome.

jimmy_r's review

dark reflective fast-paced

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

4.25

freakydug's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0