A review by nssutton
Rotters by Daniel Kraus

4.0

This book is really hard to describe, more so if most people are used to hearing you recount the plots and twists of dystopia novels. No, really, it's about grave digging in modern day time!

But it's also about fathers and sons, loss, death, decay and descent, descent, descent.

The second half of the book is like a sheer drop, taking you away from the story that you can sort of wrap your head around to the one that leaves you silent. There are severed body parts. There are open eye sockets. There are graveyard blues.

Some of the plot points I found harder to swallow than others and not because of the gore factor. But the attention to detail and sheer volume of information I never gave a second thought to about (two words: PVC pipes) more than made up for it.