A review by anomieus
Ingest Me by Lesley A. Camphouse

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

This short extreme-lite horror story wasn’t as extreme as I expected. It has a whiff of McCluskey’s superior Zola to it, but on a smaller, less developed scale. The story premise was alright – a young boy develops into an abhorrent ‘incel’ teenager and takes his frustrations out on his younger sister and mother, culminating in a bloody, gruesome showdown.

Unfortunately, I found the writing problematic. I’m not sure if it’s that the author is Dutch and maybe their English isn’t great, if it’s maybe a translation issue or just not edited properly, but the writing was clunky and very distracting. It some cases a single sentence would change tense three times, and this happened quite frequently throughout the short story.

I know I would have appreciated the overall story much more if not for that, but it was just too awkward for me to really enjoy it.