alxenterprise 's review for:

Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede

3.0

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This was alright. A decent enough output for a debut, but the entire ethos of the story really is summed up in the author’s/Maeve’s Dostoyevsky rant about how women shouldn’t need a reason to monstrous. However, in that same explanation she also laments that women who are portrayed as such have their depravity sourced from their sexuality or their sadness. Despite that, Maeve encompasses all of these attributes that are supposedly denouncing: she is entirely driven by her sexuality and her sadness (which only she projects onto herself) while also having no drive or reasoning beyond….. it’s just who I am?
The violence and gore are descriptive and engaging, like if John Waters had a hand in screenwriting an indie horror flick. The main drawback truly is Maeve’s characterization. In no way is she a Bateman, but with a bit more thought and reason, as much maligned as that is I guess, she could have been her own, wondrous yet monstrous creation.