A review by spookymidwesternreader
Blender Babies by Jon Athan

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

This splatterpunk has the splatter and the punk in spades. It's gory and gruesome and it's got a lot to say about society: our priorities and our weaknesses and how quickly it all goes down when things hit the fan. It was an absolutely gross, wild ride of a book that I would highly recommend only to a select few. You have to have a strong stomach for this one. 
My one issue was the ending.

After all that we had been through in this book, I felt like I wanted something more concrete at the end. The vague cut off of that final two sentences didn't really do it for me. I would have been fine with the ambiguity of Brian running down the tunnel, never knowing if they make it out of the city, if the Craze ever ends, etc. So I'm just pretending it ended right before the Lord of the Flesh reappeared.