A review by adorableautist
Low Kill Shelter by Porpentine Charity Heartscape

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This is a book about intimacy. About who we keep at arms length and who we let get close, and how that closeness fulfills, hurts, and changes us into something new. About how the myriad of social interactions and perspectives mapped onto the membrane of society are refracted through our own diverse neurology and traumas. In typical Porpentine fashion, these themes are explored using grotesque, violent, and frequently sexual imagery, but she always manages to extract something hopeful and even kind from the ensuing gore.
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