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We Are All Completely Fine
by Daryl Gregory
I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
Four and a half stars. Part of the reason that it doesn't get five is that I really wanted this to be an entire book! I feel like I would rather have read more of this, and less of Afterparty, the next-to-latest thing I've read by him. Instead, this is a novella. Or novelette. Or whatever shorter books are called.
This work revisits a theme that the author is fond of- looking at the consequences of pop culture tropes realistically. In this case, we get a therapy group consisting of members who have been attacked by crazed serial killers. There's an amputee who was the victim of a cannibal family, a former boy detective who battled monsters and has an entire series of kids' books written about him, someone who had her bones surgically scrimshawed by a serial killer, and so on.
This idea is based on a short story by Gregory called something like "The Last Girl." Meaning the last girl in the horror movie, the one who survives. The one who spends the rest of her life looking over her shoulder and under the bed, who sleeps with the lights on, never feeling safe again. This is a book about people damaged by trauma, and how they deal with it. It is also a book in which the supernatural is real.
It's creepy. It's engrossing. It made me want to sleep with the light on.
Four and a half stars. Part of the reason that it doesn't get five is that I really wanted this to be an entire book! I feel like I would rather have read more of this, and less of Afterparty, the next-to-latest thing I've read by him. Instead, this is a novella. Or novelette. Or whatever shorter books are called.
This work revisits a theme that the author is fond of- looking at the consequences of pop culture tropes realistically. In this case, we get a therapy group consisting of members who have been attacked by crazed serial killers. There's an amputee who was the victim of a cannibal family, a former boy detective who battled monsters and has an entire series of kids' books written about him, someone who had her bones surgically scrimshawed by a serial killer, and so on.
This idea is based on a short story by Gregory called something like "The Last Girl." Meaning the last girl in the horror movie, the one who survives. The one who spends the rest of her life looking over her shoulder and under the bed, who sleeps with the lights on, never feeling safe again. This is a book about people damaged by trauma, and how they deal with it. It is also a book in which the supernatural is real.
It's creepy. It's engrossing. It made me want to sleep with the light on.