A review by horrorbutch
Spoiled Rotten by Natalie Tautou

5.0

 A new and incredibly good short story collection by Natalie Tautou. It's dark, it's messy, it's transgender, it deals with horrifying and terrible shit, it's bleak and dark and so, so good! 

I really enjoyed reading it (blasted through it in an evening, emotions going from feeling queasy at points to incredibly intruiged by the stories and feeling very sorry for the characters to just deeply grateful to get to read great and messed up horror). The writing is crisp and very to the point, its extreme horror and filled with trigger warnings, but also strangely beautiful. 
If you enjoy your horror extreme and dark and messy, check out this collection. 

Fake: A closeted trans woman dating a younger trans woman and dealing with the fallout from her broken marriage, fun, fucked up and interesting, tw: implications of incest, daddy kink, suicide, transphobia, murder, domestic abuse
Wish: What if a closeted girl found a lovely mommy to take care of her and drug her with estrogen? Kinky and fun, tw: mommy kink, nonconsensual hormones
Numb: A trans woman meets up with two pornographers who promise her a lot of money... bad things ensue. I quite liked this one, its really nice and creepy! tw: underage, torture, body modifications, drugging, kidnapping
Love: Two trans women meet after a concert and move in together, high focus on music, sweet and somewhat melancholic, but a bit of a whiplash after the previous story, i liked it though, tw: drug use
Hurt: This one starts as the story of a fucked up and dark kinky relationship and the fallout after the relationship is forced apart, there's a lot of horrible people in this one, it get's quite dark, I enjoyed reading it a lot, I especially love the parts where the current online trans discourse gets brought up, it's just interesting to see a product of it's time presented like that, tw: mommy kink, underage, drugs, fucked up relationship (somewhat iffy re consent because one of the participants is a teen, but it was consensual to her, even if none of it would be healthy for a real life relationship. But hey that's what fiction is here for! Just want people to know what they are getting into), sexual boundary pushing, drugging, somnophilia, forced detransition, murder, past csa, suicide, self harm
Close: Two sisters (one trans, one cis) deal with the fallout of the death of their dad, who was found out to be a pedophile when he died, their relationship is also not quite normal, if you've read other stories by Natalie Tautou, you can probably guess where this one is headed, tw: csa, pedophilia, incest, suicide 
Real: short story about a trans writer with a lot of darkness, fun and twisted and really interesting, tw: suicide, rape, incest, csa, detransition, graphic gore, violence