Let me start with the good things. LaRocca is a decent storyteller. The book vibes were spot on, eerie an creepy and the whole time you can't figure out what the character you're supposed to be sympathizing with gives you the ick.

The cover is awesome. Based on the cover and plot, I thought that this was going to be about necromancy, maybe a little necrophilia for shock value, and perhaps someone being haunted. This is where it went south for me.

The horror was gratuitous and ill placed. It felt like LaRocca wrote the book and then said to themself "this wasn't gross enough for my genre" and added additional splatterpunk scenes. The scenes didn't advance the plot or character development at all. It gave us so much information about things we didn't need to know and then absolutely nothing about what we wanted to know - like the end of the story. We are left having no idea what the resolution to the story is.

And finally, it didn't feel queer - it felt homophobic. Child SA just doesn't do it for me. Especially when the graphic nature of it doesn't do anything to add to the story.

I won't be picking up anything from this author again.