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A review by mmilla
Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
5.0
Someone get this book in front of Ari Aster! I want a fucked up six episode mini-series on HBO asap.
Catherine House won't be for everyone. It's eerie and weird and really - I can't emphasise this enough - not much happens. It's a slice of life college story - where they eat decadent exorbitant meals, drink boatloads of wine, fuck and study the weirdest subjects. It's like [b:Bunny|42815544|Bunny|Mona Awad|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1544742360l/42815544._SY75_.jpg|58221942] meets Lost (when Lost was good in the first season), sci-fi meets dark academia, Severance (the Apple+ series) with a side of gothic horror.
Ines is an unreliable narrator, partly because she's suffering from PTSD, partly because she's depressed, partly because she's been downright brainwashed by the school. I love her for her unabashed queerness, and her casual attitude towards sex. She's also frustrating because you want her to get off her ass and figure out what's going on, but she just lethargically floats through the whole thing mostly unfazed. She's disassociating from difficult things and subjecting herself to highly questionable experiments to keep the status quo, to fit in.
In the end it's just as pointless as Lost (the bad part - end of the series) and you're not quite sure what it wants to say. It's so strange and had me holding my breath waiting to see what happens next and I inhaled it in two days - and the ending, I ain't even mad. I just loved it, every crazy second of it. I can't wait for the author to write something else.
Catherine House won't be for everyone. It's eerie and weird and really - I can't emphasise this enough - not much happens. It's a slice of life college story - where they eat decadent exorbitant meals, drink boatloads of wine, fuck and study the weirdest subjects. It's like [b:Bunny|42815544|Bunny|Mona Awad|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1544742360l/42815544._SY75_.jpg|58221942] meets Lost (when Lost was good in the first season), sci-fi meets dark academia, Severance (the Apple+ series) with a side of gothic horror.
Ines is an unreliable narrator, partly because she's suffering from PTSD, partly because she's depressed, partly because she's been downright brainwashed by the school. I love her for her unabashed queerness, and her casual attitude towards sex. She's also frustrating because you want her to get off her ass and figure out what's going on, but she just lethargically floats through the whole thing mostly unfazed. She's disassociating from difficult things and subjecting herself to highly questionable experiments to keep the status quo, to fit in.
In the end it's just as pointless as Lost (the bad part - end of the series) and you're not quite sure what it wants to say. It's so strange and had me holding my breath waiting to see what happens next and I inhaled it in two days - and the ending, I ain't even mad. I just loved it, every crazy second of it. I can't wait for the author to write something else.