Rhiannon

A fun, fast little read of story with an ancient, grouchy demon named Ammit who must make his required human sacrifices while possessing the body of an animal. Any animal will due, and usually he picks some truly terrifying predators. Ammit tries to be strategic in what animal body he chooses – until he makes a hilariously tragic miscalculation and winds up in the body of an aging, fat domestic housecat, Purcell Hounsfield.

Now he must use all his resources and inventiveness to try and off his equally elderly human companion.

Fast paced, wry and easily relatable to those of us who have often muttered “my cat is trying to kill me” on a regular basis while trying not to trip over them going down the stairs, Feral is an amusing, droll short horror comedy that left me giggling and smiling and looking sideways at all the cats in my neighbourhood.

I can’t remember what I was going to write…

My brain has melted out of my ears. This book is so nearly impossible to describe… it is existential cosmic scifi horror with no happy ending or clear path. It’s challenging, weirdly subversive and most definitely not for everyone.

Do not bother with this if you’re looking for something:

• Light and effortless

• Linear

• Uninteresting

• Boring and staid

• Relaxing

• Reassuring

How many times have I read this book?!?!? Now I have so much more to worry over what I’ve ever forgotten in my life… 🤣 😟 😕 😵

I strongly recommend watching the short film on Youtube. It’ll give you the opening chapter in 15 minutes and at least you’ll have an idea what you’re in for.

https://youtu.be/3v8AsTHfAG0?si=Tgg224Q7rrOuga1H

There’s some really good, unique world building here. Very visual, very bleak. But I think that was about the only interesting part of the book for me. It’s an interesting concept, but I was getting weary of the male MC is ‘gonna save’ his GF and why are all the ‘bad’ guys always Guys? The idea of the Black Farm being ‘not hell’ made me wonder what ‘hell’ would actually be like for this world? I was surprised that the majority of suffering in this world is physical with no real emotional or existential torment… (apart from our MC feeling some guilt over his GF being here as well.)

And there’s some gnarly extreme stuff. There’s a scene about a quarter of the way in that actually made me feel somewhat nauseous – which is very uncommon for me. But I think it was a little too repetitious and predictable for me in the end and just meh overall.