Lala

Review of advance copy received from Netgalley. Thank you to Poisoned Pen Press for the advanced copy!

I’ve seen Freida do her thing enough times to know the drill, and this one hits all the familiar notes… until the twist shows up, flailing like it had no clue where it was going. Entertaining? Sure. Believable? Not so much.

Finally getting around to finishing this series, so I figured I’d start from the beginning.

Attack on Titan pulls you in from the first page. The opening drops you straight into a world that’s already breaking, and the scale of everything hits before you can settle in. The Titans are creepy, huge, and impossible to look away from, and the art makes every moment heavier and sharper.

There’s this fast build of dread and curiosity that gives the whole thing a sharp urgency. It’s dark, brutal, and full of emotion. I’m already attached and already wondering how the story will end.

I’m hooked! This is going to be a wild journey, and I’m ready to dive into all of it.

Short, Brutal and Bloody.

I put this book off for so long for no particular reason, and it ended up being everything you want in a Splatterpunk novella. It is fast, vicious, and strangely beautiful in that way where the gore feels almost poetic. The brutality has this emotional undercurrent that makes the violence feel intentional instead of empty. The body horror goes wild, but it’s tied to obsession, decay, and the way obsession rots everything it touches.

The pacing never slows down. Every scene hits hard, and the imagery sticks to you in that “I should not be enjoying this as much as I am” way. The flower motif blooms through the violence in a way that feels symbolic and disgusting at the same time. It’s messy and completely unafraid to go too far.

For a novella, it leaves a bigger mark than it has any right to. Splatterpunk fans who like their stories fast and feral, bloody but intentional, and beautifully grotesque will have a good time with this one.