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Black Flame
by Gretchen Felker-Martin
You know a book is gonna be good when the epigraph has a Clive Barker quote.
Black Flame is this twisted, kinky, horrific love child of horror and exploitation films while simultaneously setting about the task of being a cutting and timely commentary on hypocrisy within the Jewish community. What I love about Gretchen Felker-Martin’s writing is how she’s absolutely willing to go places other writers would flinch away from, whether it be harvesting the testicles of feral men in Manhunt or having a fictional version of Strom Thurmond in this book (which made me laugh so hard, you don’t even know).
This book is dark, unnerving, and definitely has a lot of trigger warning material. If you’re a sensitive reader at all you’ll want to look up warnings for this book. For me, all of those nasty, terrible things make books like these even more interesting to read. Horror novels give us a chance to examine the horrors of society through the lens of fictional means. Here, the horror is hypocrisy and how many people your hypocrisy hurts. It turns out hypocrisy can be absolutely catastrophic. 4⭐️
I was provided a copy of this title by the author and publisher via Netgalley. All thoughts, opinions, views, and ideas expressed herein are mine and mine alone. Thank you.
File Under: Body Horror/Historical Horror/Horror/LGBTQ Horror/Occult Horror/Religious Horror
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Body shaming, Rape, Sexual assault
Minor: Cannibalism