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A review by iliketoast
Breathe In, Bleed Out by Brian McAuley
4.0
Thank you to NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press for the chance to read this book!
While I love the horror genre, I tend to stick to the more supernatural side of the genre wehn it comes to books. But I have always LOVED slasher movies. And this book was a real love letter to the slasher movies of the late 90s and early 00s. It was a nice dose of nostaligia. There were all kinds of Easter eggs for slasher movie fans, from the grumpy locals that are mad about the highfalutin fancy LA people coming into their town to a crazed cannibal pickaxe killer man urban legend. Even the friend group all felt straight out of a slasher movie, so passive aggressively bitchy and at each other's throats the whole time. And I love that it had the trope of forshading how/where a character would die, I got so excited when I caught that.
The author does a great job convincing the reader that Hannah, our MC, is a highly unreliable narrator. A traumatized young woman who is willing to lie in her therapy sessions to score more drugs, she also has visual halucinations that make you question what is real.
This will be a great book to read at the close of summer for a nice injection of nostalgia.
While I love the horror genre, I tend to stick to the more supernatural side of the genre wehn it comes to books. But I have always LOVED slasher movies. And this book was a real love letter to the slasher movies of the late 90s and early 00s. It was a nice dose of nostaligia. There were all kinds of Easter eggs for slasher movie fans, from the grumpy locals that are mad about the highfalutin fancy LA people coming into their town to a crazed cannibal pickaxe killer man urban legend. Even the friend group all felt straight out of a slasher movie, so passive aggressively bitchy and at each other's throats the whole time. And I love that it had the trope of forshading how/where a character would die, I got so excited when I caught that.
The author does a great job convincing the reader that Hannah, our MC, is a highly unreliable narrator. A traumatized young woman who is willing to lie in her therapy sessions to score more drugs, she also has visual halucinations that make you question what is real.
This will be a great book to read at the close of summer for a nice injection of nostalgia.