Rhiannon
1.5/5⭐, reluctantly rounded up
This read like bad teenage fan fic doing some misguided mashup of Wuthering Heights and Alice in Wonderland and Natural Born Killers. Nothing extraordinary about the book at all, it's rather clunky and often cringey writing in some weird attempt to be erotic revenge murder after two young 20-somethings, Heathan/Rabbit and Ellis/Dolly are reunited after being split up in their early childhood by their adult abusers.
Heathan's determination to have revenge on those that used and abused them as children means he's gonna school “his Dolly” (oof, eyeroll) how to kill and revel in blood and death and show her how to teach her former abusers a lesson for what they did to her as a 10-year-old girl. Of course, he just continues to infantilize and objectify Ellis (dressing her up as Alice in Wonderland with a knife and a blue gun to match her outfit) as his personal plaything and he's clearly not even remotely self aware to notice that he's just doing the same thing as those he's after...
As the two reunite they begin to cut a bloody swath across the south in their search for their abusers. The ‘horror' is meh, nowhere near extreme (if that's what it was going for.) It's too bad because I think if this had been better written it could have become a proper splatterpunk novel.
Originally posted at www.amazon.ca.
1.5/5⭐, reluctantly rounded up
This read like bad teenage fan fic doing some misguided mashup of Wuthering Heights and Alice in Wonderland and Natural Born Killers. Nothing extraordinary about the book at all, it's rather clunky and often cringey writing in some weird attempt to be erotic revenge murder after two young 20-somethings, Heathan/Rabbit and Ellis/Dolly are reunited after being split up in their early childhood by their adult abusers.
Heathan's determination to have revenge on those that used and abused them as children means he's gonna school “his Dolly” (oof, eyeroll) how to kill and revel in blood and death and show her how to teach her former abusers a lesson for what they did to her as a 10-year-old girl. Of course, he just continues to infantilize and objectify Ellis (dressing her up as Alice in Wonderland with a knife and a blue gun to match her outfit) as his personal plaything and he's clearly not even remotely self aware to notice that he's just doing the same thing as those he's after...
As the two reunite they begin to cut a bloody swath across the south in their search for their abusers. The ‘horror' is meh, nowhere near extreme (if that's what it was going for.) It's too bad because I think if this had been better written it could have become a proper splatterpunk novel.
Originally posted at www.amazon.ca.