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alex9 's review for:
Motherthing
by Ainslie Hogarth
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Another strange, horror-adjacent litfic novel that I’m rating 5 stars? I feel like this may be a new favourite genre. There’s something that always put me off from reading too many books of this niche, despite usually liking the ones I’ve read in the past. I think it was mainly the worry that delving too deep into the mundanity and bleakness of life (and death/grief/madness/etc) would just be too depressing and let real life events bleed into the story too much, but I don’t think that’s actually an issue.
What I didn’t like:
Nothing really, again.
What I enjoyed:
Everything, from the writing style, MC’s voice, themes, blurred lines between figments/reality, the horror in banality, mommy issues, all of it, just clicked super well together for me. I’ve seen some reviews saying this is not a horror story, but I have to disagree. There are so many subgenres and different iterations of horror and this story definitely has elements of the genre, and offers a unique take on a haunted house and the psychological horror genre.
What I didn’t like:
Nothing really, again.
What I enjoyed:
Everything, from the writing style, MC’s voice, themes, blurred lines between figments/reality, the horror in banality, mommy issues, all of it, just clicked super well together for me. I’ve seen some reviews saying this is not a horror story, but I have to disagree. There are so many subgenres and different iterations of horror and this story definitely has elements of the genre, and offers a unique take on a haunted house and the psychological horror genre.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Mental illness, Suicide