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A review by discarded_dust_jacket
Thorngale by Phoenix Mendoza
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
5.0
“Sometimes, one spends an entire life trying to chase the sensation of being a king. Of being a monster. Of being worth killing for. Of nearly being killed.”
This was only my second extreme horror novel, and I’m still not sure this genre is for me, but let me just say: despite this being some of the most disturbing, grotesque content I’ve ever consumed with my eyes, the PROSE !!! the MASTERY OF CRAFT !!! the way I was both REPULSED but also HYPNOTIZED !!!
No words were wasted; this novel wields some of the most precise and deeply evocative language I’ve ever read. Relentlessly brutal, beginning to end. Truly visceral. I have a feeling I’m going to be thinking about these characters for a long time.
(**TAKE THE CWs SERIOUSLY, especially incest, pedophilia, excrement, vomit, and cannibalism**)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Confinement
Minor: Car accident