i really made a mistake in not reading reviews before starting this, cause i walked into extreme horror without realizing.
im typically not squeamish, i like horror as a genre, and expected that this would be mainly a social horror with some american politics satire. and it certainly has satire! but it also has (don’t read past here if you don’t want some spoilers, DO read past here if you want to know trigger warnings)
-this book gets very! weirdly! sexual! extremely incest-y, even! very early on! (god that first big horror scene involving Noah went way too long, i was just chilling and then was like “uh. man is this scene ever going to stop? will this mom ever stop humping her adult son?) there is also so much masturbation! especially in basically any scene involving a woman! many mentions of semen!
-animal violence. they eat the family dog. for scale as to how much i hate this scene, it is on par with my most hated book scene ever, the “mom stomps pet dog to death on the carpet” scene in The Violence by Delilah S Dawson. i listened to the eating the dog scene several hours ago and still feel sick to my stomach.
-this is more specific to just me and stuff i can’t handle, but god i hate horror involving vomit or people nearly vomiting or having to eat disgusting things. and this has a lot of that.
god i hate this book! what the hell! i thought this would be social commentary with added horror and then i walked into extreme fucking horror unknowingly!