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A review by hapikohw
Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
A woman who has become her mother, devotes herself to saving a man that is becoming his mother.
Husband and wife with mommy issues, the house may or may not be haunted in the literal sense with the ghost of the man's mother after her suicide, but it most certainly is in the metaphorical sense.
Depression as a haunting and BPD, psychosis, obsession, worship, low self-worth, mother wounds and trauma as a possession - wow, that is a perfect way to parallel the horrors of a horror with the horrors of being in our reality. If Ghosts and demons and exorcists transferred to our real human being experiences they would most certainly be like this.
I enjoyed this through and through.
Husband and wife with mommy issues, the house may or may not be haunted in the literal sense with the ghost of the man's mother after her suicide, but it most certainly is in the metaphorical sense.
Depression as a haunting and BPD, psychosis, obsession, worship, low self-worth, mother wounds and trauma as a possession - wow, that is a perfect way to parallel the horrors of a horror with the horrors of being in our reality. If Ghosts and demons and exorcists transferred to our real human being experiences they would most certainly be like this.
I enjoyed this through and through.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cannibalism, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Alcohol, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Vomit, Body horror, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Medical content, Murder, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual content