A review by smvslvt
Cows by Matthew Stokoe

challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No

2.5

This book is vile. Every page is revolting, stomach churning nightmare after nightmare. Bleak. Disgusting. Violent. It actually made me wonder how someone thinks of things so vividly repulsive. It’s not good. Nothing about it is good, but there is a message in all the filth and I think it stands as a very effective messenger, sickening as it is. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Pregnancy tw

a pregnant woman carves her unborn child from her own body mid psychotic break killing them both

child death/abuse

Steven crucifies the corpse of the fetus with knives