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Tell Me I'm Worthless
by Alison Rumfitt
Listening to this book felt like tripping
First of all, major props to the reader of the audiobook, she's GREAT. She handled the rambling difficult weird-flowing text super well, and her voice for the house was perfect.
This book has a bunch of trigger warnings at the beginning; the central themes are queer trauma and the creeping spread of fascism. It doesn't hold back, so there's some really disgusting and shocking imagery. I guess there are tons of references to classic horror books that I haven't read, and I probably should read them... I think the most obvious reference is to The Haunting of Hill House, which I did read and didn't like. But I should read it again cuz I most likely missed something and just have a wrong opinion. ANYWAY.
The basic story is that Alice, a trans woman, had a massively fucked up experience while exploring a haunted house (named Albion) with her friends Ila and Hannah. Hannah did not make it out of the house, and Alice and Ila were left with conflicting memories of themselves being violently sexually assaulted by each other. It's a few years later, and Alice and Ila haven't spoken since. Alice is haunted by a poster of Morrissey in which she's blacked out his eyes, and Ila has become a terf. Both of them are drawn back to the house to find out what really happened to them, and what happened to Hannah.
This book felt evil. Like it was scary on a level where I felt it seep into me. This book as a whole is wild and upsetting and it made me think
First of all, major props to the reader of the audiobook, she's GREAT. She handled the rambling difficult weird-flowing text super well, and her voice for the house was perfect.
Spoiler
When the house is speaking through Hannah she makes it so the voice is fluctuating between an exaggerated version of Hannah's voice and the scary house's voice. The effect is like... horror movie level. I was afraid.This book has a bunch of trigger warnings at the beginning; the central themes are queer trauma and the creeping spread of fascism. It doesn't hold back, so there's some really disgusting and shocking imagery. I guess there are tons of references to classic horror books that I haven't read, and I probably should read them... I think the most obvious reference is to The Haunting of Hill House, which I did read and didn't like. But I should read it again cuz I most likely missed something and just have a wrong opinion. ANYWAY.
The basic story is that Alice, a trans woman, had a massively fucked up experience while exploring a haunted house (named Albion) with her friends Ila and Hannah. Hannah did not make it out of the house, and Alice and Ila were left with conflicting memories of themselves being violently sexually assaulted by each other. It's a few years later, and Alice and Ila haven't spoken since. Alice is haunted by a poster of Morrissey in which she's blacked out his eyes, and Ila has become a terf. Both of them are drawn back to the house to find out what really happened to them, and what happened to Hannah.
This book felt evil. Like it was scary on a level where I felt it seep into me.