Alison Rumfitt is a queen of queer and trans horror. This book lives rent free in my head just like brain worms in this novel.

This book is disturbing, horrifying, raw, nauseating, and gut-punching, and I'm absolutely amazed how Alison Rumfitt writes unflinchingly about transphobia, specifically, the cancerous growth of transphobia in UK. The novel is not very subtle, nor does it want to be, when it depicts transphobes as having literal worms in their brain.

The characters are messed up and dysfunctional, and also very vulnerable and in desperate need of safety and support. But there's no comfort for them in this book, nor for the reader. Things won't get better, only worse. And in that way, I would say that the author puts a magnifying lense to the ugliness of transphobic hate in UK.

This book is harsh and gross and extreme and won't be for everyone. But for me, it's a masterpiece in modern horror and I think it's very important.