A review by midnights
Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

I don’t know how anyone could possibly rate this. It doesn’t even feel possible to label the horrors of this book with something as trivial as a star rating. I paused so many times, sick to my stomach and simultaneously in awe of how anyone could write something so grotesque and appalling; Brite certainly knows how to write mind-bending horror. I’m not sure I will ever encounter something that is this  nauseating ever again— and thank god for that. 

I feel like the only logical next step after finishing this is to bathe my brain in bleach. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Cannibalism, Rape, Addiction, Drug use, Murder, Sexual assault, and Torture