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Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail
The POV of this book offered an interesting and more intimate perspective. The reader got to see directly into the mind of psychopathy.
Please check the trigger warnings before reading this. I cannot stress this enough. There are brutal animal and child deaths within this book that could be triggering.
For being such a quick read, I thought the story was well done. The characters didn't feel underdeveloped to me at all and the writing was wonderful.
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Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
With strong feminist themes and an array of awful characters this delved into the victorian time but from an unusual perspective.
I gobbled this up (helped by the impending library return date) and will read all of Virginia's future work.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Drug use, Mental illness, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, Sexual harassment, Classism
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Torture, Murder
As the story progresses, Winifred, traumatised by her childhood & a desire for revenge, slips into a spiral of psychosis and commits mass murder in a truly spectacular, bloodthirsty way.
This book is so unique in many ways. I loved the short chapters, I enjoyed Winifred’s wit and sarcasm-at the beginning it gave me ‘Fleabag’ vibes with her winking at the camera and breaking the fourth wall. Irreverence is the general tone of her inner voice. It’s also very shocking in a lot of ways and not just the violence (which is pretty grim). She is in a lot of ways a heroine, many of the other characters in the book have much worse morals and behaviour than her. I also felt desperately sorry for her as flashbacks to her childhood are revealed during her psychosis-and it made me cheer her on to murder in some of the chapters. Although you knew what was to come there were twists and reveals which kept the pace up. The way the writer conveys the spiralling of her madness too was very clever.
The only flaw for me was that it was too short, I would have liked a bit more backstory fleshing out and for a piece of gothic fiction, a little more creeping tension.
A very unique, gory and fast paced read.
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Did this book emotionally scar me for life? Maybe
Will I read it again to see if there was anything I missed? Eventually
Oof. This is a HEAVY book with intensely graphic death scenes that is perfect for people who prefer their horror along the lines of gore vs suspense. The suspense is there, but the gore in the last few chapters greatly over shadows it.
PROS:
🩸 Nature VS Nurture
🦷 Is she really a psychopath or is she just what everyone made her?
🩸 Familial psychosis
🦷 The Gore
🩸 The Twelve Days of Christmas
🦷 Every murder has stuck in my mind like a stubborn stain I can’t remove
🩸 World and Character Building and Backstory are ALL solid
CONS:
🦷 The Nanny deserved better
🩸 Lots and lots of child death and reference to previous off the page child deaths
🦷 There is just a lot of death
🩸 Misogyny
🦷 Phrenology
👶🏻👶🏻👶🏻👶🏻👶🏻 out of five babies mistaken for baby dolls
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Incest
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism