laughtertries 's review for:

Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder

2.0

dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Diverse cast of characters: No

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This book gets 2 stars for having a fine plot and some pretty good monsters. It’s fine body horror. There are elements I like and I was looking forward to getting to this book on my TBR which is why it’s hard to say that this book is just… not good. Even though we’re definitely on the same page politically, I’m offput by how Snyder lectures her audience in the middle of scenes. I felt like I was being babied through understanding this book. This was written for someone who doesn’t like reading, doesnt like thinking critically and drawing their own conclusions about characters, and has to have their hand held through scenes that might be morally grey (Minor spoiler

A Black character’s ghost(?) lectures a white main character about racism WHILE THE WHITE MAIN CHARACTER IS MURDERING HER, just so the white main character can tell the audience that she’s not doing it for racist reasons…? Like please just let the readers take what they will from that scene and if it’s SO important, show that the character isn’t racially motivated ELSEWHERE. the flow of that scene was horrible.

) I’m not a writer, I’m sure writing is hard, but I am just so disappointed by this book that has an alright concept, is in a genre I ADORE (yayyy erotic horror!!) but manages to so thoroughly drop the ball.