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A review by farbooksventure
One Bloody Thing After Another by Joey Comeau
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
2.5
Probably the weirdest book I read this year. Still not sure what to make of it. I also found it more on the gory-side rather than the horror-comedy side. Despite the ways everything tied up quite nicely (more or less) in the end, I still feel this sense of lack of something from the book.
Overall, instead of satisfying, One Bloody Thing After Another makes for a very puzzling reading experience for me.
Overall, instead of satisfying, One Bloody Thing After Another makes for a very puzzling reading experience for me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore and Violence
Moderate: Death of parent
Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Child death, and Vomit
Gore, Animal Death, and Child Death: Some characters go feral & developed animal-like behaviour over the course of the story. They're craving the fresh meat of living beings. It escalates from eating small animals (kittens and a dog) to eating human (a baby and two adult human). There's also frequent description of a ghost of a bloody young girl holding their own severed head.
Violence:One of the main characters have an anger management issue. She constantly goes into a fit rage & does self-destructive violent spree in the book.
Death of Parent, Cancer, and Vomit: The main girl with anger issue struggles with griefing for her mother who die of cancer. She often flashback into the time when she would saw her mother being sick & vomitting into the toilet.