pickled_pisces 's review for:

Goddess of Filth by V. Castro

4.5

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A feminist ‘coming of rage’ possession story that was amazingly written.

Gave Jennifer’s Body vibes. I liked how the possession wasn’t a demon and had a

symbiotic relationship towards the end.

I love a good religious horror/ religion as a metaphor for evil so the priests chapters were so great and even though it’s such a short book he is such a slimey character. And the all the friends within the group felt really fleshed out.

Some quotes that Stuck out to be:

“It made me almost wish I had been born without a womb so that no man would want me and no God would expect me to be leashed. The rest of me could be mine, and mine alone.”

“I couldn't ignore the flaring of Perla's eyes, that female rage we are told to bury when it burns too bright or becomes distracting.”

“I'd be hated forever. I would take the sin, accept hatred or death. I didn't want to die, but 1 didn't want Father Moreno or anyone like him to have the satisfaction of our tears or bodies. No, 1 wanted to strike like a predator in the wild.

The church sat on the corner of the street like a chipped headstone. It appeared rotten, choked by time and its own tangled intolerance.“