saint_eleanor's Reviews (295)

fantastic 

*sobbing*
bro this is part of my 'weird deformed boys that just want to live or be loved'  streak I've been on by accident (Frankenstein, the glutton, lapvona, obscene bird of night, perfume) and again just so good. 
This book is about the death of a child and his parents' inability to let him go, resulting in them transposing him onto someone completely different. Also about the apathy of nature and animalistic nature. Predators gotta eat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 
We have an entirely gay cast in this book, and a lot of different perspectives and personal details, the last part of this book reminded me a lot of the Armin Miewes case. 

I loved this so much, very cool retelling of Beowulf in a modern setting that centers on Grendel and his mother, a war vet, who live in a cave on the edge of a gated community where another young boy lives and him and Gren are friends but then this cop ('Ben Wolf') tries to kill gren's mom etc etc. Extremely interesting and so cool to have the contrast of like war flashbacks to this like Christmas whoville ass town. There is a race and class element as well and its also GAYYYYYYYY (woohoo!)
 
I definitely cried like the whole last fourth of the book. I feel like the ratings for this are not picking up what it's putting down. Also very well written and like the women on both sides are so fierce , there's also a collective 'we' perspective of all these mothers idk I really liked it. 'The girl w the candle in her chest' was so sick

This book is like my bible i think, my version of 'the body keeps score'. Never have I felt more seen lmaoo but jesus christ the stuff this author has been through omg. I didn't expect it to be autobiographical I thought it was a media analysis book (which it is) but then the author can relate every single horror movie back to some crazy shit from her own life. Super interesting read and really refreshing as someone whose brain works like that and validating.

ooo spookyyyyy

I really loved this book a lot, it was super weird and definitely  hard to follow a couple times but I love this genre of specfic with like the alternate race and how we would treat real aliens, and I lost it at the part about Spongebob that was so clever and really placed me into the world. I also loved the Greenland shark details and everything, I was confused about the coup and like the underground lambda uprising or whatever. It feels very slice-of-life, very matter of fact writing on a really interesting moment in time. Definitely Literary SF 

This was really good and exciting but I feel like the ending was a little bit of a flop. I really loved the story and the world-building/ scene-setting was really really good. I was definitely super engrossed. The plot  reminded me a bit of Jackal but I was definitely way more scared of the people in this book than any 'entity' or whatever. Definitely a good read. Also the prose in between chapters was amazing

idk what the hell was happening tbh

I loved this a lot and honestly it was a really nice break from Graham's Indian Lake trilogy where you have to fight tooth and nail to understand what's happening in any given scene, the writing in this is way more straight up but still very poetic. I love the southern gothic style as well, it's so fun to read and it's so ruff n tumble. It's a werewolf book but it's more of a family drama and examination of class/race disparity in the united states. very very sad but very good.

I really loved a couple of these stories and didn't really like others, but I thought they were really well-written and cool. Short easy read