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How much trauma can one room fit? Well. Surprisingly enough to fit a whole 120 page book. This was a short read but for sure a hell of a ride to get through, not one minute made me go “Ugh.” I do recommend. I also have to add, content warning. So be prepared, be very prepared.

I thought A Little Life was heart wrenching. This book is so awful in the best possible way. My heart raced, I cried, and I had to put the book down many times. The worst child abuse imaginable and even then sometimes the author would refuse to write it. The fact that it is a fictionalized version of a real story? I can‘t even comprehend these monsters.

WHAT THE ACTUAL FLYING 🤬?!
Sadly, given the state of affairs between men and women these days, I think this has just become the quiet part we don‘t actually say out loud. “Men‘s latent cruelty in courtship and women‘s receptivity to pain and domination as core heterosexual impulses.”
#JaneWard #TheTragedyOfHeterosexuality #eugenics #men #women #disturbing #oddlytrue #stilltrue

A short nicely disturbing read. I like my books with shock factors in it and this definitely gave me that. This is one of the hyped up books that lived to the title. I quite enjoyed it and it reminded me of a Japanese book called In the Miso Soup. Dark. 🤘🏻

First time reading Ketchum and regardless of how you feel about a book like this, it has to be said that Ketchum knows how to tell the story. His sense of tension and pacing is impeccable as well as his ability to invoke time and place. Before I learned this was based on a true story I wondered if it was taking the torture too far. But now I think it was necessary: these were real people who acted on the same depraved depths that are in all of us.

“But I do think places, like this motel room, I think they hold on to bad things, the way people hold on to memories. Grief. Pain. Disease. Addiction.”

I wonder where this is going…🌚

Did I read it in one sitting? Yes. Would I recommend it to anyone? No. Go for it if you like extreme horror - all the trigger warnings possible. Haha - what a wild ride.

My first thought for dark on day 9 of the #scarathlonphotochallenge was baker.reads my favourite horror book TikTok creator who recommends some Very dark stuff. If anyone is on TikTok and wants some dark recommendations with detailed trigger warnings and thoughtful commentary check him out! #scarathlon #skeletoncrew @Clwojick @StayCurious

Horrifying, disturbing, and authentic. Ketchum, with crystal clear prose, details the malevolence of silent compliance and the horrors of abuse to a degree that is genuinely shocking. Not sure I‘ll ever read this one again, but it‘ll always stick with me.

🌟dipped my toe in extreme horror to see what all@the controversy surrounding this sub-genre is all about. YouTube wars between an author and YouTube reviewer. Well, thank goodness this was short. I love horror, but don‘t need to be grossed out. Nothing scary about it. Cheap thrills. But cool for those that do. Not for me, first and last one.